Old Cameras in Old Movies

AgX · Sep 28, 2017

Not quite. The original remark was about a true stereo SLR, thus with a stereo finder. By turning your head with the camera you could experience stereoscopic view (as that camera reveiled it) even over panning.
Viewmaster only offered a static image. Seitz in contrast designed a film viewer that offered you a respective continuous stereoscopic view when you panned your film viewer.

Theo Sulphate · Sep 28, 2017

Helios 1984 said:
Here's a classic among classics, James Stewart in "Rear Window" (1954) holding a beautiful Exakta VX ...

... and he's pressing down on the shutter speed dial, not the release.

Helios 1984 · Sep 28, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
... and he's pressing down on the shutter speed dial, not the release.

He's not actually shooting in this sequence, he's just using the camera as a spyglass because he cannot see close enough with his binoculars... however, now that you have pointed that out, I'll have to watch the movie again to make sure hahah

Arklatexian · Sep 28, 2017

guangong said:
While watching a documentary about the trial of Japanese general Tojo, there it was. A photographer using one of my favorite cameras...a Kodak Medalist (a 6x9 120 camera with one of the best lenses made, the 100 mm Ektachrome. Couldn't tell if photographer was civilian or military, but cameras originally made to US Navy specifications during WWII.

To get that Kodak Medalist to use 120 film you would be forced to go into as completely dark room and respool the 120 onto 620 spools. All the Medalist cameras that I have dealt with took 620 film (Kodak's answer to the European's 120 film). Kodak lost. Even the 120 spools were/are superior to Kodak's 620 spools)..........Regards!

MattKing · Sep 29, 2017

oldtimermetoo said:
All the Medalist cameras that I have dealt with took 620 film (Kodak's answer to the European's 120 film). Kodak lost. Even the 120 spools were/are superior to Kodak's 620 spools)..........Regards!

I'm afraid that this isn't quite right.
Kodak invented 120 film - approximately 116 years ago.
And the Kodak Brownie No. 2 was the very first camera to use it.
See this thread for one member here's tribulations when he tried to use modern Kodak film in his somewhere between 82 and 116 year old Brownie No. 2: https://www.photrio.com/forum/index...o2-what-am-i-doing-wrong.147933/#post-1936511
(hint - some cameras that have a red window in an older location were left by the wayside when Kodak took steps to deal with wrapper offset problems with 120 film).
Kodak introduced 620 film at the same time they introduced Kodak cameras that took it. While there are some advantages flowing from the smaller 620 spool (mainly in regards to potential compactness) most likely the film and cameras were introduced together in order to assure that if someone bought the camera, they would only buy Kodak film for it.
They did the same thing with 616 film, which was otherwise identical to its fat spooled cousin, 116 film.

cooltouch · Sep 29, 2017

Kodak also did a similar thing with 828 film, which was basically unperforated 35mm film stock, introduced one year after 135 film. It also used a single spool and backing paper like 120.

MattKing · Sep 29, 2017

cooltouch said:
Kodak also did a similar thing with 828 film, which was basically unperforated 35mm film stock, introduced one year after 135 film. It also used a single spool and backing paper like 120.

The big difference with 828 is that it gave the user a larger negative or slide than obtained from 35mm.
Those Kodachrome 828 slides of my father's project wonderfully.

Helios 1984 · Oct 8, 2017

Eddie Constantine holding an Agfa Iso-Rapid 1F in Alphaville (1965)

Helios 1984 · Oct 10, 2017

Beetlejuice (1988)

Lydia Deetz with her Nikon F301.

And here she use a Polaroid Sun 660

AgX · Oct 11, 2017

I did not know that camera literally throws out the film.

cooltouch · Oct 12, 2017

It doesn't. The prop department must have hotrodded it.

David A. Goldfarb · Oct 12, 2017

Or it's CGI.

GRHazelton · Oct 12, 2017

MattKing said:
The big difference with 828 is that it gave the user a larger negative or slide than obtained from 35mm.
Those Kodachrome 828 slides of my father's project wonderfully.

I still have my Komaflex S, a leaf shutter SLR which used 127 film. The Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides from it used a conventional 35mm projector and were stunning, especially following 35mm slides. I mainly shot Ektachrome since I could process it myself. Sadly the Koma needs some shutter work, and the few, expensive 127 film hardly justify the repair cost.

cooltouch · Oct 12, 2017

I'm a big fan of auto racing, especially road racing -- as opposed to the roundy-rounds of NASCAR -- not that even NASCAR races can get exciting at times. A few days ago, I watched the other road racing classic -- Grand Prix (1966), starring James Garner. This movie has a lot more human drama -- and dialog -- than Lemans, but not so much as to spoil it for gear heads like me. So anyway, something else this movie has a lot of is cameras. There are several scenes where the drivers are surrounded by photojournalists, clicking madly away with their Nikons and Rolleis. So here are a few of the better ones I managed to capture.

Four stills and a Bolex:

A novel way to use a TLR:

Good ol' F with eye-level finder:

Pretty much a standard Hassy outfit:

I grabbed this frame because of the cameras in the background:

Three models striking poses trackside while the photographer is changing cameras:

There was more, but these were the best parts.

Theo Sulphate · Oct 12, 2017

cooltouch said:
I'm a big fan of auto racing, especially road racing -- as opposed to the roundy-rounds ...

I'm a long-time Formula 1 and Le Mans fan - not very many movies to be found about either.

I don't even know whether the fans can still bring cameras to those events.

cooltouch · Oct 13, 2017

Me neither, but I seriously doubt the promoters can stop the fans from bringing their smart phones . . .

Paul Howell · Oct 13, 2017

Early 50s, Destination Moon, on the moon what looks to be an unmodified Augusfelx TLR, with leather case, I think it's a Arugus. So NASA didn't need to take that expensive Hassy.

AgX · Oct 13, 2017

"Destination Moon"
some cine camera:

Paul Howell · Oct 13, 2017

I missed that scene the scene I saw had one of the crew members have another stand under the earth to make it seem like he holding it up with on hand, he tripod looks like a Husky.

cooltouch · Oct 13, 2017

Maybe a Bolex with a side accessory, like one of their synchronous motors?

Like this Bolex Perfectone:

The lens looks like one of the Swiss Kern-Palliards often seen on Bolexes.

narsuitus · Oct 26, 2017

Leica M4-P and a Leica digital are featured in the 2017 film, "A Mountain Between Us."

AgX · Oct 27, 2017

How modern are you to consider a movie from this year to be old...

narsuitus · Oct 27, 2017

AgX said:
How modern are you to consider a movie from this year to be old...

I knew when I posted this movie that I would be chastised for mentioning such a new movie. However, I was so thrilled to see the Leicas prominently displayed in this movie that I was willing to risk the ridicule.

bvy · Oct 27, 2017

narsuitus said:
I knew when I posted this movie that I would be chastised for mentioning such a new movie. However, I was so thrilled to see the Leicas prominently displayed in this movie that I was willing to risk the ridicule.

It's forgivable. In fact, it's probably more interesting to see old cameras in new movies.

AgX · Oct 27, 2017

Then we should differ, are these new ones movies with a historic topic, or did a hipster or even a Apugger!!! got into the plot.

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