Old Cameras in Old Movies

schyter · Dec 18, 2017

I was amazed to have noticed in a 2013 Italian film (The chair of happiness) at Smena Symbol !!
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/730/23369198375_672f405bde.jpg

Helios 1984 · Dec 20, 2017

John Wayne holding a Nikon F in McQ (1974)

Theo Sulphate · Dec 21, 2017

Helios 1984 said:
John Wayne holding a Nikon F in McQ (1974)
...

I never liked John Wayne - and clearly he hasn't a clue how to hold a camera and lens.

Sirius Glass · Dec 21, 2017

Helios 1984 said:
John Wayne holding a Nikon F in McQ (1974)

That too was contemporary for the time.

Helios 1984 · Dec 21, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
I never liked John Wayne - and clearly he hasn't a clue how to hold a camera and lens.

That's not the oddest thing. In this scene, he uses the camera to spy on some gangsters and takes a few shots. As he shoot, you see what he sees through the lens and you can hear the shutter. The viewfinder never black-out

Sirius Glass · Dec 21, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
I never liked John Wayne - and clearly he hasn't a clue how to hold a camera and lens.

It would have helped to aim the camera out the window.

Theo Sulphate · Dec 21, 2017

Also... that's about the nastiest "lens hood" I've ever seen. He must have found it near a toilet.

Sirius Glass · Dec 21, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
Also... that's about the nastiest "lens hood" I've ever seen. He must have found it near a toilet.

It is from a plumber's helper.

AgX · Dec 21, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
Also... that's about the nastiest "lens hood" I've ever seen. He must have found it near a toilet.

It is a lens bumper.

Helios 1984 · Dec 21, 2017

Sirius Glass said:
It is from a plumber's helper.

I've been extra on movie sets a few times. Not everyone bother with details, sometime the prop folks are tasked to make something look like something else and the result can be either very good or lazy as f***.

Helios 1984 · Dec 22, 2017

Here's Takashi Shimura, one of my favorite japanese actors, with a Canon IIb? in Gojira (1954).

cooltouch · Dec 23, 2017

It could be a IIIa also (Basically a IVsb without the flash rail) I have two of 'em, and that's what mine look like.

Paul Howell · Dec 23, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
Also... that's about the nastiest "lens hood" I've ever seen. He must have found it near a toilet.

Yeah looks like a 50mm rubber collapsible, would not much use on a tele which looks like a 200 F4?

AgX · Dec 23, 2017

These were the standard shades over here.

Theo Sulphate · Dec 23, 2017

Paul Howell said:
... which looks like a 200 F4?

AgX said:
These were the standard shades over here.

My 200/4 pre-AI has a built-in collapsible metal hood. I cannot identify what lens is in the John Wayne photo - maybe a newer version though.

A lot of the pre-AI tele lenses had built-in hoods, such as the 135 and the 300 also shown below.

(sorry for the old blurry cellphone photo)

cooltouch · Dec 24, 2017

Theo Sulphate said:
My 200/4 pre-AI has a built-in collapsible metal hood. I cannot identify what lens is in the John Wayne photo - maybe a newer version though.

It isn't a Nikon lens. A Nikon will have a chrome ring near the mount. In 1974, it would have to be pre-AI, so it wouldn't even be a chrome ring -- it would be a chrome band. To me, it looks somewhat like a Vivitar S1 70-210/3.5. A zoom where one pulls the collar toward the camera for the long focal length, be it 200 or 210mm. Given the date of the movie (1974), the number of push-pull zooms it could be is limited. And I think it's a zoom because it appears to be too big to be a straight 200mm lens. It definitely isn't the pre-AI Nikkor, and it doesn't look like the Vivitar 200mm f/3.5, which was produced in 1974, but which is way smaller than that lens.

AgX · Dec 26, 2017

"The Beloved Woman" USSR 1981

The camera is for you to distinguish, the hammerhead flash is ukranian Luch-M (1980)
The flash is in need of a 300V battery, which is seemingly lacking in that scene...

(@3:00min, follow link to Youtube)

cooltouch · Dec 27, 2017

And a flash that looks like a Vivitar 283. Something of a mismatch.

AgX · Dec 28, 2017

Very unusual long FL lens !
Yet unidentified.

It is a long FL lens with helicoid ring-focusing and lateral guide (a guide system similar to the prefocusing of the much later Noflexars)
Then there seems to be a second, relay, optic mounted between that lens and the Visoflex-box!

"Babeck", west-german TV crime movie (1967), 3. part:

(@18:20min)

AgX · Dec 31, 2017

A fake spy camera.

"Dr. Strangelove" , USA, 1964:

Sirius Glass · Dec 31, 2017

AgX said:
A fake spy camera.

"Dr. Strangelove" , USA, 1964:

The best movie making fun of the cold war. Back then with all the tension we needed so relief.

AgX · Dec 31, 2017

Miranda D

Sported by Arthur Fellig in "The 'Imp'robable Mr. Wee Gee", 1966

Helios 1984 · Jan 1, 2018

Coraline holding a Leica M3

Helios 1984 · Jan 2, 2018

Vicky Geil (Kim Basinger) with a Nikon (FE/FE2/FM2/FM2n?) in Batman (1989).

With what looks like a F2a viewfinder.
In this scene, you can see the F number changing and the match-needle moving as she take pictures. I thought it was a nice touch.

and here we have Bob holding an Olympus AZ-4 Zoom which is IMHO the spirit animal of the 80s.

AgX · Jan 6, 2018

Istanbul street photographer

"11 Uhr 20, Teil , Mord am Bospoprus" , west-german TV crime movie , 1969

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