Old Cameras in Old Movies

bdial · Feb 11, 2018

mshchem said:
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

The braces go to the rear on the newer and current Beselers, but on the original version the braces went to the front, which was a PITA for positioning a large easel.

Mr. Astaire certainly looks like the real deal handling that Rollie, and of course few do "cool" as well as Fred Astaire.

mshchem · Feb 12, 2018

The wife and I went to see "The Post" yesterday . One glaring screw up was in the midst of the Nikon F s and speed graphics , up pops a modern lookin K mount Pentax . There's probably more screw mount SP 500s and Spotmatics out there than Spielberg has Oscars . It's only at the beginning , couldn't find much else wrong . It drives me batty when they use RC paper in movies about WWII

Best Regards Mike

AgX · Feb 12, 2018

Read the title, watch the intro scenes and you know what to expect.
Likely the one and only movie to have a Kodak Instamatic 100 or the like at the start...

"Fotógrafo de señoras", Argentina , 1978

AgX · Feb 15, 2018

-Oldest movie where I see a female news cinematographer

-) first time I see an accessory-mirrorbox in a movie

"Dream to come True" (science-fiction) USSR , 1963

Helios 1984 · Feb 15, 2018

Terry-Thomas in How to Murder your Wife (1965)

AgX · Feb 15, 2018

It seems a complete fake, thus the gunstock too. Which even is too long. Or the eyepiece too short...

Any idea on the non-Leitz "Visoflex" in my sample above?
How many of these were there? Soviet?German?

Sirius Glass · Feb 15, 2018

Helios 1984 said:
Terry-Thomas in How to Murder your Wife (1965)

It would have been better with a Hasselblad!

btaylor · Feb 15, 2018

The newsreel camera looks like a Bolex-- I'm surprised it isn't a Soviet newsreel camera like a Kinor 16

BAC1967 · Feb 15, 2018

Definitely a Bolex H-16 non-reflex model.

What is that crazy looking flash thing on the How to Murder your Wife camera.

AgX · Feb 16, 2018

BAC1967 said:
What is that crazy looking flash thing on the How to Murder your Wife camera.

I guess it is a multiple-bulb flash. Have not found it yet though...

AgX · Feb 19, 2018

"Verblendet" (a wonderful pun in German...)
tv-movie GDR , 1985

A young, aspiring freelance photojournalist has been patronized by a 25years older, successful collegue and married him. Then the trouble starts...
A marriage drama on the background of Pentacon Sixes and the couple's darkroom. (Which has its own role...)

(shortened version without prosecuting attorney speaking)

oreston · Feb 19, 2018

Ursula Andress with a Hasselblad in Casino Royale (1967).

oreston · Feb 19, 2018

From the same scene...

Ursula Andress: "I'm gonna give you... a 500th at f2."
Peter Sellers: "That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever said to me."

AgX · Feb 19, 2018

Bizarre...
I had no idea of that. And I saw that movie back then. I guess I have to watch it again.
(Maybe with some green compensating filter on...)

Theo Sulphate · Feb 19, 2018

oreston said:
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From the same scene...

Ursula Andress: "I'm gonna give you... a 500th at f2."...

Except she can't: that's an 80/2.8 C lens. No C or CF lenses were faster than f/2.8 so she better use 1/250.

Arklatexian · Feb 19, 2018

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

Does the German word "sharp" and the word "sharf" mean the same thing? I have heard the word "sharf" used in describing chili peppers....................Regards!

AgX · Feb 20, 2018

"scharf" means

-) sharp as a knife
-) sharp as chili
-) hot as a hot girl
-) sharp as a turn
-) sharp as acute

oreston · Feb 20, 2018

Theo Sulphate said:
Except she can't: that's an 80/2.8 C lens. No C or CF lenses were faster than f/2.8 so she better use 1/250.

I think it's almost too much to expect anything in that film to make any sense. It's just an entertainingly gaudy '60s fairground ride.

GRHazelton · Feb 20, 2018

Theo Sulphate said:
Except she can't: that's an 80/2.8 C lens. No C or CF lenses were faster than f/2.8 so she better use 1/250.

I'd wondered about that!

tomkatf · Feb 20, 2018

fotch said:
My favorite I grew up with "Man With A Camera" with Charles Bronson. I found some episodes on YouTube.

Yep! Chuck was an equal opportunity shooter!

E. von Hoegh · Feb 21, 2018

AgX said:
It seems a complete fake, thus the gunstock too. Which even is too long. Or the eyepiece too short...

Any idea on the non-Leitz "Visoflex" in my sample above?
How many of these were there? Soviet?German?

The camera appears to be a Contax S, maybe with an early Kilfitt?
As for the stock, look at at the angle he's holding it, how his shoulders hunch forward, it might be real.

Helios 1984 · Feb 21, 2018

Charles Wagenheim holding a Speed Graphic in Foreign Correspondent (1940)

I just love this frame.

baachitraka · Feb 22, 2018

AgX said:
"scharf" means

-) sharp as a knife
-) sharp as chili (or hot as chili)
-) hot as a hot girl
-) sharp as a turn
-) sharp as acute

AgX · Mar 1, 2018

EXA 500

in
"Der Baulöwe" (The Building Tycoon) , GDR , 1980

A satire on building a private weekend house in a planned economy. As a running gag throughout the movie the protagonist uses his camera to document his effeorts. In the end it turns out that the shutter of his Exa had failed. And only the very first exposure, a self portrait even with the tripod falling over, was usable.

abruzzi · Mar 10, 2018

I’ve always wondered what the camera was in Romary's Baby, operated by the Japanese satanist:

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