sroter Loc: Montreal,Quebec. Canada

Canon AE-1, Nikon FM. 50mm 1.8 2.0 TC Tokina, Vivitar 70-200mm and Vivitar Flash.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Hopefully you mean the last two weeks

Al Beatty Loc: Boise, Idaho

Hi group,
I was still shooting a Nikon F (no meter, I used in Vietnam), 2 Rolliflex TLRs, 1 Yashica TLR, Speedgraphic 4.5 and 2.24 x 3.25, and several Graphlex electronic flashes with large, heavy battery pack. Take care & ...

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Sinar P 4x5, 65mm, 90mm, 135mm Nikon lenses, and a 210mm Computar Symmetrigon. My "minature" camera kit consisted of Leica M4, M2R, 21mm Super Angulon, and a collection of Summicrons and Tele-Elmarits from 28mm to 135mm and a reflex housing for the longer 2 piece lenses. And the usual Gossen light meters, and either a Minolta or Pentax 1° spotmeter - analog of course.

Riverrune

Mine was a hand me down from my Father, a Leica IIc with a Leitz Elmar 50mm f3.5 lens and a cheap but effective light meter. I still have it.

billt1970 Loc: Gambrills, Maryland

I was another Minolta SRT-101 guy, with 35mm and 105mm Minolta lenses and a Braun flash. That camera was my workhorse for 20 plus years until the dawn of digital in the 1990s. I was also into moviemaking, with a Kodak Super 8mm camera. Great memories and images from those cameras.

Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

I had a Nikkormat camera body with a 50mm and a Vivitar zoom that wasn’t very sharp.

jkm757 Loc: San Diego, Ca.

Back then my only kit was a Ludwig drum kit.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Canon F-1. 35,50, ad 135mm FD glass. Vivitar 283. Fliters, Power winder. Pistol grip Spiratone tripod. In a Haliburton case. And a fully equipped dark room

yorkiebyte Loc: Scottsdale, AZ/Bandon by the Sea, OR

... Two Pentax Spotmatic F bodies, Takumar Lenses: 28mm F/3.5, 50mm F/1.8 (?), 135mm F/3.5, 200mm F/4.0
...Yashica-Mat 6x6 of some kind, don't remember the model - no meter in it - used a handheld meter of some sort.

jcboy3

Why 1975? Anything special about that year? I mean in pretty short order, 25 years ago would be 1995, and 50 years ago would be 1970.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I was a sophomore in college, then. I had accumulated this kit since 1968, by selling prints to the yearbook and newspaper staffs at my Jr-Sr high school, and to classmates and their parents:

Nikkormat FTn
Nikon FTn
Soft Touch release button for Nikon FTn
Soft Touch release button for Nikkormat FTn
Two 50mm f/1.4 Nikkors (traded for 24mm f/2.8 Nikkor in 1980)
55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor
35mm f/2.8 Vivitar (replaced 1979 with 35mm f/2 Nikkor)
135mm f/2.8 Vivitar (replaced 1981 with 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor)
Yashica Mat 124G TLR
Honeywell 65D flash (510V battery version) plus battery pack, cords, two brackets (35mm/120 TLR)
Vivitar tripod and no-name tabletop tripod
Cable releases in various lengths

Various filters (FL-D, 80A, 81A, 82A, 85B, Sky 1A, UV, Yellow 12, Red 25A, Blue 47, Green 11, Orange 21
Ilford HP4, FP4, and Pan-F; Kodachrome 64, High Speed Ektachrome (160?) Ektachrome Infrared
Fujifilm Neopan SS
Kodak Lens Tissue
Spare camera batteries
Cheap no-name camera bag that looked like something else
Lloyd's 35mm Bulk Film Loader
40 Kodak Snap Cap 135 Magazines
3M Black Masking Tape, 3/4 inch wide roll
100' rolls of B&W films
Omega B22XL enlarger with 50mm EL-Nikkor f/2.8 lens and 75mm f/4 EL-Nikkor
Honeywell Nikor tanks for one, two, and four 35mm reels
Four Nikor 35mm and two Nikor 120 reels
GraLab 300 timer
Easel and grain magnifier
8x10 contact print frame for six 35mm negative strips
Red grease pencils, 8X Agfa Loupe, proportion wheel for cropping yearbook prints
Box of Negafiles for 35mm x 6 frame strips plus a pack of Negafiles for 120 strips
Sharpie pens
Various Trays, graduates, bottles...
Stainless steel dial thermometer
Large print washing tray and siphon (also used for a tempering bath during film developing)
Two Yankee safelights with clamp lamp holders
Clothesline with clips for hanging film to dry
StaticMaster brush, Ilford Antistaticum cloths, Edwal Film Cleaner, Dust-Off...
Heathkit portable radio
Kodak Dektol and D76
Ilford ID-11 Plus and Microphen developers
Kodak Indicator Stop Bath
Kodak Rapid Fixer mixed with and without hardener
Heico PermaWash
Photo-Flo 200

Time-Life Library of Photography (first edition set)
Popular Photography
Modern Photography
Petersen's Photographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine
Various "coffee table" photography books

My darkroom kit, unfortunately, stayed at home in my parents' basement from 1973-1977. I spent most of college using slide film and would process a few rolls of B&W at home on breaks. My interest turned to audio recording, radio broadcasting, video, and sound reinforcement. I would become a multi-image AV producer in 1979... with a "full deck of cards".

Richbarr

i bought my boss’s Nikon FM, at first, then to have a second body a traded some older gear in for a
Nikon F3, also had my best lens at the time 105mm Nikon and 2x too.

chemsaf Loc: San Diego

That was the year I began shooting underwater. I was using a Calypso (aka Nikonos I) with a 35 mm lens and one strobe (do not recall brand)

mstuhr Loc: Oregon

Canon Ftb (which I still have and still works), Kodak Pony (which I still have and still works). A Soligor zoom, 70-200 mm I think, a couple of filters, bag.