Old Cameras in Old Movies

[baachitraka]

Photographer

Subject

On the ground glass

Exposure

Exposure

movie: Idaya Kovil, a classic from 80's.

 

[Keith Pitman]

Can anyone ID the film that this Bette Davis still is from?

 

[Helios 1984]

Photographer

Subject

On the ground glass

Exposure

Exposure

movie: Idaya Kovil, a classic from 80's.

This reminds me that I have to vote for Pedro.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

 

[mshchem]

Can anyone ID the film that this Bette Davis still is from? View attachment 323326

Must be ortho, she's using a safelight

 

[Keith Pitman]

Must be ortho, she's using a safelight

The “film” in this case means the movie not the emulsion.

 

[mshchem]

The “film” in this case means the movie not the emulsion.

I want to know, might be worth viewing

 

[CMoore]

Can anyone ID the film that this Bette Davis still is from? View attachment 323326

Not a movie expert by any means, so i am just guessing.
With that short blonde hair it must have been somewhat early in her career.?
She made a movie with William Powell about stealing fashion designs.
It MIGHT be this.

Fashions of 1934 (1934) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama, Musical

1h 18m | Approved

www.imdb.com

 

[Tylaar]

I like watching out for different cameras in old movies. Is it geeky? I saw The Omen recently, I think it was a Nikon F2 that the photographer had. Well, it was one of his cameras.
Just to add a bit more weight to this thread, maybe some of you know a specific film from the past that features a photographer in the main or important supporting role? I posted this in in 35mm section but it doesn't really have to be one.

Separate but related; In the novel Goldfinger, James Bond uses a Leica M3 to capture the cheating methods of Auric Goldfinger. In the words of Ian Fleming, James Bond "(...) went to his suitcase and extracted an M3 Leica, an MC exposure meter, a K2 filter and a flash holder." (Ian Fleming, Goldfinger, Signet Books, 1959, chapter four, page 29).

 

[Algo después]

Ok, this is an oldie memory about a Transformers` character. Here we have those 3 bad guys (Spectro, Spyglass and Viewfinder) mixing in a sort of SLR...

 

[Helios 1984]

Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Roden handing his Kodak Instamatic X-15 to Pilcher for a picture with Agent Mapp.

 

[Algo después]

This Tears for fears´s videoclip, Advice for the young at Heart (1990), directed by Andrew Morahan.

A Mamiya C330 (probably)...

A nice song, by the way...

 

[AgX]

Unidentified large format camera


One of thise cases where one wonders what such camera has to do in such scene. I mean, when they used a modern Linhof 6x9 in that movie too.

Visible is the front, seemingly static, standard of an LF bellows camera. The lens sits in a protruding casing with seemingly a lever sticking out at its top. There also is a kind of button at the lower left of the standard. One leg (slat) of the tripod is visible too.

location: scene of crime forensic photography

"Maigret tend un piège" , crime movie , France, Italy, 1958

there also is a guy with a battery pack and a (flash-?) light:

 

[Keith Pitman]

Not a movie expert by any means, so i am just guessing.
With that short blonde hair it must have been somewhat early in her career.?
She made a movie with William Powell about stealing fashion designs.
It MIGHT be this.

Fashions of 1934 (1934) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama, Musical

1h 18m | Approved

www.imdb.com

That’s the one. Thanks. For the detective work. Funny film, especially almost 90 years later.

 

[CMoore]

That’s the one. Thanks. For the detective work. Funny film, especially almost 90 years later.

Lucky Guess.
Perhaps i will drop a dollar on the Super Lotto

 

[pbromaghin]

Ed Norton rocking an Exacta Ihagee in Motherless Brooklyn. Looks to me like he has a filter screwed on the end of that gorgeous lens, too.

 

[Helios 1984]

Lieutenants Columbo using an Argus C3 in Dagger of the Mind (1972)

 

[Radost]

Little known fact Coppola was using Olympus OM2 during the shooting of apocalypse now

 

[choiliefan]

Frank Nelson on an episode of The Jack Benny Program:

 

[choiliefan]

Found these in my phone. Could be wrong but I believe they're from Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt:

 

[abruzzi]

Found these in my phone. Could be wrong but I believe they're from Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt:

yup. They're trying to sneak a photo of Joseph Cotton. When he sees he demands the film, the the photographer palms it and gives him a dummy roll. One of my favorite Hitchcock films.

 

[notoriousLT]

This Tears for fears´s videoclip, Advice for the young at Heart (1990), directed by Andrew Morahan.

A Mamiya C330 (probably)...

View attachment 324017

A nice song, by the way...

That lady on bongos is my hero lol

 

[bjorke]

Müller-Schmid Swiss Mountain Camera w/land-lock & a 5cm ƒ/2 combat lens.
Typical actor, finger in front of the RF window.

 

[georg16nik]

Müller-Schmid Swiss Mountain Camera w/land-lock & a 5cm ƒ/2 combat lens.
Typical actor, finger in front of the RF window.

View attachment 341861

A still from Wes Anderson's “Asteroid City”
Müller-Schmid Swiss Mountain Camera = Kiev 4 with Jupiter 8

 

[Trask]

Müller-Schmid Swiss Mountain Camera w/land-lock & a 5cm ƒ/2 combat lens.
Typical actor, finger in front of the RF window.

View attachment 341861

I just watched (on RottenTomatoes) a "making of"/trailer that showed the entire moving image of this still. The photographer sees Scarlett Johansson sitting to his left, he raises his camera and focuses the lens without his middle finger being in front off the secondary window. He then shifts his grip to make it easier to press the shutter button -- only then, after he has focused the camera and is framing the shot, does he obscure the secondary window. So, as far as I could tell, he did a fairly accurate job of showing how to properly focus a Contax/Kiev-type rangefinder. I have and use both, and I do find that the extended base length of the rangefinder makes obscuring the window easier than on other RF cameras.

 

[Donald Qualls]

the extended base length of the rangefinder makes obscuring the window easier than on other RF cameras.

Yep. I learned the "Contax grip" very quickly while film testing my first Kiev. It's not hard, just requires training a reflex for the right and on those bodies.