Old Cameras in Old Movies

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I saw the original French Rififi film ( French military slang for a combat zone) that was made about ten years earlier, it was about an incredible jewellery store robbery, I'll never forget it it was one of the most exciting movies I have ever seen.
 

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Stereoscope

(first time I see such in a movie)

"Le Castagne sono buone" , romance movie , Italy , 1970


setting: 1970 , a desk with framed photographs in a young woman's appartment

 

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Praktica LB

"P.S." , coming-of-age/relational drama , East-Germany , 1978


 
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Eugen Mezei said:
Yes. The Praktica LB and the LB2 have selenium cells.
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At that period 1972-79 a uncoupled selenium meter was an anachronism. More so as Pentacon since 1968 had a TTL model (the last model of the Nova series).
But seemingly they needed a cheap, entry-level L-series model with meter. The L-series TTL model came in 1970, 2 years after the start of that series.

Being so awkward made me include the selenium model here, though we already got the L-series represented here.
 

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photogrammetric stereo-camera

"Gefährliche Wanzen" , crime movie episode from west-german TV series , 1974

used by police at car accident



photogrammetric cones in the background
 

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Found on FB today.
From an episode of 1972 Mission Impossible:
 

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Gusset Cutter

"Dotknięcie Nocy" , crime movie , Poland , 1961

A portrait photographer lives and works in a miserable attic.

Of course the best movies are those where the murderer is the photographer himself... and then asked by the police to take the scene of crime photos.
With the Praktina of the Police.
And not to miss, the sound of the dial timer-switch at the police darkroom.











police photo lab/studio with Bertillon chair



 
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choiliefan said:
"Easy Money"
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Reversed image. Rodney's wandering eye is on the wrong side (not to mention the Kalart and flash on the Speed Graphic...).
 

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Hitchcock's Topaz had a couple of cameras. The first was hard to get a good photo of--it is some kind of sub-miniature camera. Here the French agent is using it to photograph a member of the Cuban government:



Second is the cuban underground photographing the Russians installing the missiles with a Olympus Pen F. This is probably an accuracy mistake since the Pen F came out in 1963, but the Cuban missile were installed in 1962:

 

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The first one is the smallest 35mm film TLR.
Concava Tessina
 

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Well, one of those camera concepts the world was not waiting for...
 

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AgX said:
What do you mean by that?
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Each lens has a mirror so it is a twin mirror twin lens reflect camera. Can you name another? I cannot.
 

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Well, KW designed a SLR with doublesided mirror, later with two mirrors... (Never made it into a movie, as it it never made it into production. Though more interesting than the Tessina.)
 

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If you're into somewhat cheezy European camp--there is "Danger: Diabolik". Here he is posing as a media photographer, while he overcomes everyone at a government press conference with "Exhilarating Gas" or laughing gas:

 

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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Remember the guy that was taking snaps of all the girls.?



 
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