Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

[David M]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

You picked up Amateur Photographer for the ads and classifieds, not the editorial content.

[Pol]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

What I remember about it is having babies and trying to fend off David's endless hankering for a Zenith enlarger, which he eventually bought and used to set up and use in a corner of the kitchen extension at the side of the garage.

He threw it out just a few weeks ago when we finally got around to clearing the loft.

Here's a link to a picci of the case and the enlarger itself.

The case

The enlarger

Why did I put up with it?
How did I tolerate it all?
How did I end up being almost as bad as him about kit and clutter?

I honestly haven't a clue what else went on the truck when the loft was cleared. I don't think I want to know either.

Pol

[Ian]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

Haha! I used to sell Zenith enlargers. But our best-sellers were the Polish Krokus brand - in fact I bought one fitted with a dichroic colour head

There is one on eBay at the moment: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Krokus-35m...item564efe132a

Fortunately I had a sink in my bedroom at my parents' house so it was fairly simply to black out the room and safely develop films and prints.

We also sold Durst enlargers of course - and the debate over which enlarger lens was best were endless of course!

I once had a successful sale of a load of Durst darkroom gear - a small fortune. The customer paid and that was the last we saw of him. He was supposed to return later to bring all the bulky gear home.

Ian

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

My first pictures were all done on 620 Gratispool film that came back with a free replacement film. Only 12 exposures on a roll, as was the 127 camera I was given for Christmas in the early 60s. At "senior school" I was allowed to use and borrow a 35mm camera and was soon hooked, spending many hours in the projection room that was well equipped with tanks, trays, enlargers, drying cabinets, etc...

I remember mid-process exposures to make slides and producing contact inter-negs. While I never made any money out of it, I did a lot of the schools photo production and also got out of a lot of cross country running

My first "real" camera was the brilliant little Olympus 35RD, which with a 40mm f/1.7 GN lens was the pefect "walkabout" camera and I still have one.

While I considered the SLRs and tried many during the 70s, I never found one that did anything better than the 35RD. I did get an OM-10 when they first came out, and that went all over the world with me and it is still going strong, shooting B&W.

With the arrival of the OM4Ti and a couple of excellent primes, I moved more towards "proper" photography and it has stayed with me ever since, with two rolls of slide and one print film still to be used up...

Even now I still find myself only shooting a small number of frames, which is a hang over from the film days.

[yoshi]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

Even now I still find myself only shooting a small number of frames, which is a hang over from the film days.

I can understand this. glad to know I'm not the only one.

yoshi

[Ian]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

I can understand this. glad to know I'm not the only one.

yoshi

Not me - I like to rattle off a burst of shots, especially if there is much changing action in the scene or if the shutter speed is a bit slow for hand-held - shooting many frames improves the chances of an interesting and/or sharp frame.

Ian

[David M]

Re: Do you remember photography in the 1970's?

I take less shots with digital than film, no longer needing to make in camera dupes.