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Old Cameras in Old Movies

I don't see an F-1.

Maybe you mean post #800
Actors were told not to fiddle with those cameras...
 
Netflix has a documentary series on the Challenger space shuttle explosion. I noticed when they took the crew photos, NASA had a Deardorff V8 with a 4x5 back, it was on a Caesar Saltzman tripod with the cool Saltzman head. I have the same outfit.
 


The view camera is not a Cambo SC , but a Supercambo.

Between the Supercambo and the current SC there had been intermediates, seemingly all called SC.
 
Just watched One Night in Miami on Amazon. Fictional story about Malcom X, Muhammed Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cook.
A Rolleiflex 3.5 and Nikon F featured prominently in it.

You know you've got too many cameras when you watch movies or tv, and say 'got that camera' when they appear on the screen..
 
But Rolleiflexes and Nikon F's are quite common. But some models that have been shown here I never came across, some I even did not know about.
 
Plaubel Makina II (with Polaroid back?)

"Tim Frazer jagt den geheimisvollen Mister X" , crime-movie , Austria , 1964

setting: Antwerp , police scene-of-crime photography



 
Huss said:
You know you've got too many cameras when you watch movies or tv, and say 'got that camera' when they appear on the screen..
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What is worse is when you see the camera you say to yourself "I need to get me one of those."
 
Huss said:
You know you've got too many cameras when you watch movies or tv, and say 'got that camera' when they appear on the screen..
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gordrob said:
What is worse is when you see the camera you say to yourself "I need to get me one of those."
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And what is even worse, is when you say to yourself: "I think I still have one of those cameras, don't I?"
 
Leica M4
and unidentified flash

"La Ragazza con gli Stivali rossi" drama , Italy , 1974

Camera used for a private intrigue.

 
KW Praktina IIa (with p-finder w. lightmeter !)

"Solo for an Elephant and Orchestra" , comedy , USSR , 1975


Setting: a obsessed photomateur from CSSR in 1975, thus the camera was already 15years old at least.

 
The Boys from Brazil features an Olympus OM and in Dr Mengeles' laboratory, a huge Zeiss? microscope which uses sheet film.
 
In this thread I repeatedly hinted at photomicroscopes.

Both Leitz and Zeiss made photomicroscopes accepting sheet film.
 
That is a Leitz Panphot microscope. It seems to be loved by stagebuilders.
 
In the Mystery Woman series (Hallmark Movies and Mysteries channel), Kellie Martin at times uses a Leica screw mount and a Rolleiflex. Amazingly, she uses them in her fairly dimly lit bookstore without flash or supplemental light for the most part. She has her own darkroom for processing.
 

Photo magic, as is shown in The Artful Detective when Murdock can shoot indoors without flash or flash powder in Canada in the very early 20th century. Requires willing suspension of disbelief.
 
GRHazelton said:
Photo magic, as is shown in The Artful Detective when Murdock can shoot indoors without flash or flash powder in Canada in the very early 20th century. Requires willing suspension of disbelief.
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This is still done; the new (last year) Perry Mason series had Perry, at one point, shooting hand held at night (and not right under a streetlight, either) with a Nagel Vollenda (127 half frame folder) -- can't have been any faster than f/3.5, and the setting is the 1930s, so fastest film in 127 rolls was probably (old) ASA 200 (and a 3x4 cm frame would get grainy pretty quick if you tried to make prints big enough to see). Heck, he'd have needed a flashlight just to see the numbers to advance the film!
 
Thats Funny......
What did you think of the movie.?
 
Not only that, but they changed Perry Mason from being a lawyer, to being a detective.
Not that the original Perry Mason did much lawyering!
 
MattKing said:
Not only that, but they changed Perry Mason from being a lawyer, to being a detective.
Not that the original Perry Mason did much lawyering!
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I haven't watched it, but I got the impression from reviews that this is a retcon for "how Perry got into the legal businss" -- doing the P.I. gig to pay for law school, working for an actual lawyer (like he kept a P.I. on retainer when he was a hotshot trial lawyer). My attitude is, do what you like the with characters when you're outside what Gardner wrote about -- but don't try to make me believe you've got ASA 6400 film in 127 in the 1930s.
 
GRHazelton said:
Photo magic, as is shown in The Artful Detective when Murdock can shoot indoors without flash or flash powder in Canada in the very early 20th century. Requires willing suspension of disbelief.
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To be fair, Murdoch may have invented his own high-speed emulsion. Seems to have invented just about everything else.
 
"Shooting" taken seriously...

Unidentified SLR used for shooting poisonous needles.


"Rififi in Amsterdam" crime movie , Italy/Spain , 1966



 
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Kodak Instamatic 200


"A House with 1000 Faces" , tv-series , CSSR , 1984

Used by a father taking photographs of his childreh at 1st day of school.

I find it interesting to see this camera and film-type to show up in a CSSR setting.


 
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