I think that sometimes the person who is responsible for providing props is actually a camera enthusiast.
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For the movies I hinted at, I would not say so, unless the movie is about photography. In one movie it seems to have been a case of product placement.
In the last movie I hinted at all the photo scenes are of no interest to the plot at all. Thus for no obvious reason one character was depicted as (semi-)professional photographer sporting even two cameras the same time. That one was a brand-new, the other an old one makes senses as the old one was the only spread winder camera and it was a scene with action.
In the last movie I hinted at all the photo scenes are of no interest to the plot at all. Thus for no obvious reason one character was depicted as (semi-)professional photographer sporting even two cameras the same time. That one was a brand-new, the other an old one makes senses as the old one was the only spread winder camera and it was a scene with action.
Bill Murray with a Brooks-Veriwide in Ghostbuster II.
Leitz Panphot photomicroscope
"Achtung! Feind hört mit!" (Warning! Enemy is listening!) Germany, spy/propaganda-movie 1940
Intro-cene at research lab of german wire manufacturer.
As a side note: the hallway of that lab is emmitting "invisible rays that are´destroying the silver layer of any photographic exposure".
"Achtung! Feind hört mit!" (Warning! Enemy is listening!) Germany, spy/propaganda-movie 1940
Intro-cene at research lab of german wire manufacturer.
As a side note: the hallway of that lab is emmitting "invisible rays that are´destroying the silver layer of any photographic exposure".
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So nice - this one was made by Plaubel with a Schneider lens. Would like to have one ...Bill Murray with a Brooks-Veriwide in Ghostbuster II.
2 filmlights driven by 2 battery packs
(I am unaware of the make, maybe someone knows)
Used on location as fill-in for fashion photography with Rolleiflex TLR.
"Der Kommisar" episode "Kellner Windeck" , West-Germany , TV crime-series 1971
(I am unaware of the make, maybe someone knows)
Used on location as fill-in for fashion photography with Rolleiflex TLR.
"Der Kommisar" episode "Kellner Windeck" , West-Germany , TV crime-series 1971
Exakta Varex
w. WL finder and unidentified electronic flash
Used for forensic crime scene photography.
At oblique downward photography a WL finder gets impractical. One at least could hold up the camera above ones head, with the lens facing down. Instead the photographer in this case used the plain frame finder. Hard to imagine at about 1m focusing distance even with flash. Hard to imagine anyway at a crime scene not using a prism finder, or in this case have both finders at hand.
The movie shows further:
Land camera model 80
Leitz Panphot photomicroscope
Goldmann-Herlangon ULF camera in portrait studio
Praktina
Praktica FX with unknown bulb flash
Meopta Optirex epidiascope
another electronic flash w. generator
Meopta Multifax 6x9 enlarger
Meopta Axomat 35mm enlarger
several scenes outside and inside walk-in photo-studio
In the introductory scene the protagonist seemingly packs both Type-120/127 and -135 films, but only got one camera with him... (But one of the boxes has a weird text, so I might be complety off.)
"Strach" (Fear) crime movie , CSSR , 1963
w. WL finder and unidentified electronic flash
Used for forensic crime scene photography.
At oblique downward photography a WL finder gets impractical. One at least could hold up the camera above ones head, with the lens facing down. Instead the photographer in this case used the plain frame finder. Hard to imagine at about 1m focusing distance even with flash. Hard to imagine anyway at a crime scene not using a prism finder, or in this case have both finders at hand.
The movie shows further:
Land camera model 80
Leitz Panphot photomicroscope
Goldmann-Herlangon ULF camera in portrait studio
Praktina
Praktica FX with unknown bulb flash
Meopta Optirex epidiascope
another electronic flash w. generator
Meopta Multifax 6x9 enlarger
Meopta Axomat 35mm enlarger
several scenes outside and inside walk-in photo-studio
In the introductory scene the protagonist seemingly packs both Type-120/127 and -135 films, but only got one camera with him... (But one of the boxes has a weird text, so I might be complety off.)
"Strach" (Fear) crime movie , CSSR , 1963
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Here the Land camera model 80 from above czechoslovakian movie:
Used by a police detective himself at corps location.
The camera is not operated right, but instead the film chamber is opened and a ready-made positive is taken out !
Used by a police detective himself at corps location.
The camera is not operated right, but instead the film chamber is opened and a ready-made positive is taken out !
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In "Thunderball" James Bond uses an early Nikonos I to shoot underwater pics, although he uses it wrong, it doesn't really shoot rapid fire pics when you push the rewind knob.
It also does not, as shown later in the film, double as a radiation detector, nor will the lens fall off if the bad guy just slaps it out of the pretty girl's hands.
But: Nikonos.
It also does not, as shown later in the film, double as a radiation detector, nor will the lens fall off if the bad guy just slaps it out of the pretty girl's hands.
But: Nikonos.
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I'd say it's a Canon FX because it is possible to perceive the black plastic hot contact for the flash at the top-back of the pentaprism, near the front of the photographer. Also, the hinge of the Minolta pentaprism is not visible and the slight greyish circle on the pentaprism seems to be the capital C of canon (with a bit of fantasy 
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You are a stickler for detail;-)
I am also a collector of watches and it is the same thing in films. I recently watched The American and his Speedmaster beeps ;-)
I am also a collector of watches and it is the same thing in films. I recently watched The American and his Speedmaster beeps ;-)
I'd have to agree about the Canon FX. The shape of the pentaprism with that flat front face shouts classic Canon to me. There's a good pic of one here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_FX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_FX
"Какая у вас улыбка" (I guess: Please Smile) comedy , USSR , 1974
Zenit 1
used for streetphotography
The guy takes it even at his work.
(hanging in ever-ready case on the ladder):
In his private darkroom he does an enlargement by projecting onto paper on the ground and processing by sponge with the paper on a board standing upright in the tray:
Further to see:
GOMZ FK 13x18 field camera (in studio) with wooden film/plate holder
GOMZ FKR 30x40 studio camera
and 4 sorts of studio-lights
Zenit 1
used for streetphotography
The guy takes it even at his work.
(hanging in ever-ready case on the ladder):
In his private darkroom he does an enlargement by projecting onto paper on the ground and processing by sponge with the paper on a board standing upright in the tray:
Further to see:
GOMZ FK 13x18 field camera (in studio) with wooden film/plate holder
GOMZ FKR 30x40 studio camera
and 4 sorts of studio-lights
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