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AgX said:
"Какая у вас улыбка" (I guess: Please Smile)...
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"How's your smile?" Colloquially saying "let's see your smile!" (an extremely loose translation that gives the intent rather than the literal translation of the words). Additionally, by saying у вас rather than у тебя, the request is directed in the plural rather than to one person. Technically, it could be a single person treated with an honorific but, considering the situation, that is unlikely.
 
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Yes, I evaded from the literal translation as it seemed awkward in English and mine seemingly was closer to the meaning, seen the content of movie being about an amateur photographer doing portraits, where a rather reserved girl, the protagonist is after, at the closing scene as sitter in a studio finally smiles...

Anyway,I put the movie up as it shows cameras we likely never see again in a movie...
 
"Unternehmen Xarifa" ("Under the Carribean") scienceventure , West-Germany 1954

Rolleiflex Stereo (in underwater casing)

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Leica 1C in casing

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Visoflex II with chimney and bellows

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And a lot more cameras... and a lot more Lotte Hass
 
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While its not an old movie, the trailer to the current film, "Welcome to Merwin" shows a Pentax SLR, probably a Spotmatic, although I couldn't be sure. Fine choice of camera!
 
GRHazelton said:
While its not an old movie, the trailer to the current film, "Welcome to Merwin" shows a Pentax SLR, probably a Spotmatic, although I couldn't be sure. Fine choice of camera!
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That's a Spotmatic II, a fine camera indeed. Great find :smile:
I'm definitively going to watch this movie.
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Helios 1984 said:
That's a Spotmatic II, a fine camera indeed. Great find :smile:
I'm definitively going to watch this movie.
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I've been watching the commercials, looks like a great movie. I still not sure that the camera is a regular Spotmatic with a clip on cold shoe?? I think you are correct, I don't see a meter switch above his left thumb, and there would need to be 2 flash sync sockets, which would be obscured in this shot.

Probably will be 100,000 camera nerds that go just for the camera.
 
johnha said:
Rambo (First Blood part 2), while he's preparing for the mission he loads HP5 into a motor driven Nikon (I'm guessing an F3?)...
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Yes, an F3. What's odd is that the "leather" appears to be peeling off the top of the prism head.

Also, the serial number may just be readable if the film is single stepped (if one can do that), in which case that particular camera becomes a collector's item.
 
mshchem said:
I've been watching the commercials, looks like a great movie. I still not sure that the camera is a regular Spotmatic with a clip on cold shoe?? I think you are correct, I don't see a meter switch above his left thumb, and there would need to be 2 flash sync sockets, which would be obscured in this shot.

Probably will be 100,000 camera nerds that go just for the camera.
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Here's another angle.

PS: Hushh hushh for the moment they still believe it's a K1000.

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Helios 1984 said:
Here's another angle.

PS: Hushh hushh for the moment they still believe it's a K1000.
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It bugs me that he doesn't have the period-correct lens on that camera.
 
What's up with you camera nerds ??

In my last post I hinted at one of the rarest and most expensive cameras ever to show up at Apug and no collector got trickled...
 
AgX said:
What's up with you camera nerds ??

In my last post I hinted at one of the rarest and most expensive cameras ever to show up at Apug and no collector got trickled...
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Rolleiflex Stereo 'Hans Hass' ?
Only three prototypes were manufactured - estimated price 125000 - 300000 $ ... :errm:
 
"J.A. Martin, Photographe" Canada 1976

The introductory scene shows preparing for and taking a wet collodion photograph. The rest of the movie describes the pericles of a travelling photographer in the 19th century.

 
"Rubikova Kostka" (Rubik's Cube) crime movie , Czechoslovakia 1984

Pentax 6x7
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Chinon SLR
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Can anyone identify this ???

Should be a still camera taking photos in series on its own, for surveillance.
The props artist could have taken anything, but maybe it was a camera for real...

"Po Stopách Krve" crime movie , Czechoslovakia 1969

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"Sagarmatha" climbers drama , CSSR/Nepal 1988

-) suitcase with windows for two cameras and a flash in suitcase for remote/automatic photography of Snow-Lepard
Praktica Nova model
Polaroid 2000

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Actually the siutcase contains a second flash with got no window ...

further show up:

-) Nikon FE

-) Polaroid similar to Spirit 600 (with SLR-shutter/winder sound)

-) Canonet (at Himalaya Peak)
 
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