Old Cameras in Old Movies

[Theo Sulphate]

Vicky Geil (Kim Basinger) with a Nikon ...

I looked at that photo for three days before I saw the camera.

 

[Europan]

Vicky Geil means fucking horny in German.

 

[AgX]

Linhof Super Technika III

sported on Heligoland Isle 1955:

 

[AgX]

Dawe's Universal Camera

"The Vicious Circle", crime movie, UK, 1957:

 

[AgX]

View through Minox C finder

"Zwei Leben", episode of west-german TV series (1976)

@13:30 (@ 8:27 scenes at photo-store, assistant giving wrong information)

 

[baachitraka]

Those are optima senors...

 

[Helios 1984]

Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now

 

[removed account4]

the rifleman season 1 episode 18 "the photographer"
https://www.riflemanconnors.com/photographer.htm
incase you wanted to watch the full episode

 

[Young He]

Probably has been mentioned, but Lawrence of Arabia has several cameras in different scenes with the reporter. Singing in the Rain also has quite a few. Has been mentioned, but worth mentioning again; the Speed Graphic in The Godfather pt 1. In the other two movies there are also several cameras.

 

[Helios 1984]

Here's Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957)

 

[AgX]

the rifleman season 1 episode 18 "the photographer"

Not surprisingly we had some photographers here being the bad guy, but a being the good guy and proving it by a self taken photograph, in a way..., is new.

 

[mshchem]

Here's Fred Astaire in Funny Face (1957)

I MAY HAVE THAT BESELER ENLARGER IN MY BASEMENT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S BACKWARDS? THE CHROME BRACES FACE TO THE REAR NORMALLY? MAYBE JUST BEING A PROP THEY CHANGED THINGS UP A BIT. I SURE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE STUDIO SETUP, THOSE BEAUTIFUL ROLLIES AND OF COURSE BE AS COOL AS FRED ASTAIRE. BEST MIKE

 

[Helios 1984]

I MAY HAVE THAT BESELER ENLARGER IN MY BASEMENT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S BACKWARDS? THE CHROME BRACES FACE TO THE REAR NORMALLY? MAYBE JUST BEING A PROP THEY CHANGED THINGS UP A BIT. I SURE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE STUDIO SETUP, THOSE BEAUTIFUL ROLLIES AND OF COURSE BE AS COOL AS FRED ASTAIRE. BEST MIKE

Now that's a very interesting way of using a TLR, like a periscope.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Now that's a very interesting way of using a TLR, like a periscope.

I saw press photographers doing that in the 1950s. When I had a TLR in the early 1960's I tried it a few times. It was a well known way to shoot over crowds.

 

[AgX]

Not a camera this time... but that Pentacon guy with bowler hat pointing at you. In some ads he asks "Do you know what is sharp?"
In German "sharp" also means "sexual attractive". I guess that graphic from that ad found its way onto many east-german appartment walls.

Here to see cut-out and mounted next to the dressing table of enfant-terrible Solo in "Solo Sunny" , GDR, 1980:

(left under)

I never understood the idea behind that guy-w.-bowler-hat, as in that period in Germany such was the icon for the British.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

...
In German "sharp" also means "sexual attractive". I guess that graphic from that ad found its way onto many east-german appartment walls.
...

Heh. Slang can be funny. Similarly, the French "avions de chasse" doesn't always refer to fighter aircraft...

 

[wyofilm]

The character Irving Radovic in Roman Holiday used several cameras to get pics of Audrey Hepurn acting un-princesslike. A crown/speed graphics, not sure of the model. Also, a cool Echo 8 lighter camera http://www.vintagephoto.tv/echo8.shtml . Elsewhere, he uses other cameras others might be able to identify.

 

[AgX]

Hasselblad 500 with pistol grip:
"La Ragazza Fuoristica" , Italy , 1973

 

[removed account4]

its not really an old movie but the down home good ol' boy favorite smokey and the bandit II
with everyone's favorite lawman burford T justice played by jackie gleason himself ...
the opening sequence shows someone with a nifty camera, maybe a mamyia press camera
or graflex xl or something similar that looks like a big square with a round lens ..
if you plan on watching the movie .. it really pays off being about 15 and 1980 and getting a
feed bag of popcorn for $1

 

[AgX]

You like big-head flashes? I do...


soviet Norma FIL-101 [GN(m) 24] w. 300V battery pack (manual set slave flash)

Pentacon Six w. metering prism

"Sicilian Defense", USSR, 1980 (a forensics based detective movie)

 

[Theo Sulphate]

You like big-head flashes? I do...


soviet Norma FIL-101 [GN(m) 24] w. 300V battery pack (manual set slave flash)
...

The Guide Number is 24 when the flash is switched off; when it's on, it's 900.

 

[AgX]

I do not understand.
This is a slave flash with only about 70Wsec. There are two master flash versions, without the synchro-cell. One has the same output, the other about GN(m)36.
All three have a portrait-lens reflector setting too.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I do not understand. ...

Merely a joke. That flash appears so typical of Soviet brute-force design, that I wouldn't be surprised if it could knock birds out of the sky at 50m.

 

[AgX]

Well, I was slow on the uptake again...
Though in general there were quite some outstanding designs in soviet industry, totally unknown in the West.

Anyway, that flash is from a Man's World...

 

[JensH]

..."Do you know what is sharp?"
In German "sharp" also means "sexual attractive".

So sharpness is an erotic concept here. ;-)
Maybe that's why many are keen on those Apo-Summicrons or Apo-Sironar-S...
Best
Jens