Famous people and their cameras

[cliveh]

I thought this may make an interesting thread:-

https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/243475923577200276/

 

[pentaxuser]

Unfortunately you don't get very far without having to register for membership. All I got to see was a number of "celebrities" with cameras in their hands but no information as to why it was their chosen camera etc.
I'll pass.

pentaxuser

 

[Sirius Glass]

We have had many threads about this. How about doing a search and bringing one of them up again rather than starting up a thread about the same old same old?

 

[AgX]

We also should differ between those cameras being used as props or being something these folks really used.

 

[NJH]

The queen even mentioned her Rolleiflex last week on a TV documentary looking at their collection of old photographs. Unfortunately I can't find it on iPlayer to share a link.

 

[resummerfield]

Unfortunately you don't get very far without having to register for membership. All I got to see was a number of "celebrities" with cameras in their hands but no information as to why it was their chosen camera etc.
I'll pass.

pentaxuser

Yeah, Pinterest is really bad about that... that's why I don't go there. And, as mentioned, their results aren't even relevant.

 

[AgX]

The queen even mentioned her Rolleiflex last week on a TV documentary looking at their collection of old photographs. Unfortunately I can't find it on iPlayer to share a link.

There seem countless photographs af her sporting a Leica M over her lifetime, but only few with a Rolleiflex.

 

[pdeeh]

I have a number of different cameras, but unfortunately I there are no extant pictures in the public domain of me with any of them.

Sorry to disappoint.

 

[AgX]

That the Queen was seen sporting her cameras is not that surprising, seen her generation.

But who where the first celebrities to sport a camera?

 

[Harry Stevens]

Well we learned from posts in threads elsewhere that Noah had a bottle of Rodinal but what camera he used I am not sure...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Jeff Bridges and the WideLux.
Various Beatles
Sammy Davis Jr.
The original seven US astronauts

 

[hoffy]

Just found a couple of Youtube vids and immediately thought of this thread.

I never knew it, but it seems Jason "My name is Earl" Lee is quite an avid film photographer:



Yeah, I'm probably behind the times, but I thought it was good to see.

 

[macfred]

I really like this one ...

https://tlrgraphy.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/8809c-elisabethtaylorrolleiflex3-5e.jpg

Edit: Thumbnail photograph replaced with a link

 

[CMoore]

I really like this one ...

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Who took that picture.?

 

[macfred]

Well we learned from posts in threads elsewhere that Noah had a bottle of Rodinal but what camera he used I am not sure...

I know Johann Wolfgang Goethe was an early pinholer - don't know what developer he was using (probably Rodinal as well) ...

 

[macfred]

Who took that picture.?

Don't know ...
Found it on https://tlrgraphy.com/2013/11/03/sh...s-of-celebrities-with-rolleiflex-tlr-cameras/
I'm going to replace the thumbnail above with a link.

 

[CMoore]

Don't know ...
Found it on https://tlrgraphy.com/2013/11/03/sh...s-of-celebrities-with-rolleiflex-tlr-cameras/
I'm going to replace the thumbnail above with a link.

Oh Wow.....That is a fabulous link, lots of Great Photos there.
If i had bought 20-30 less of the 35mm SLR, i would own a nice 120 TLR now.!

 

[macfred]

Oh Wow.....That is a fabulous link, lots of Great Photos there.
If i had bought 20-30 less of the 35mm SLR, i would own a nice 120 TLR now.!

At some point, everyone buys a Rolleiflex ...

 

[4season]

It seems Audrey Tautou is a Leica fan (brief shot of the camera starting at about the 4 minute mark):

 

[cliveh]

I thought this may turn into a great thread and it is looking good.

 

[Sirius Glass]

At some point, everyone buys a Rolleiflex ...

Not me.

 

[slackercrurster]

I'm more into vintage.

Weegee press photo

 

[slackercrurster]

Ike with stereo cam...

 

[Arklatexian]

Not me.

Why not, Sirius? After all it is the "other" 6x6 and can even be used without "changing lenses". Of course, I would like to have a Rolleiflex if I didn't already have a Rolleicord to go with the 500cm.. How close is this fire?.......Regards!

 

[Arklatexian]

I'm more into vintage.

Weegee press photo

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While I am a Leica fan, I once owned a later model of a Nikon Rangefinder like the one Weege is posing with. Sold it because I thought I needed the money. Dumb, dumb, dumb!........Regards!