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Old Cameras in Old Movies

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On the ground glass

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

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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).
 
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...



 
Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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




 
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...

 
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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:
 

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

 
Little known fact Coppola was using Olympus OM2 during the shooting of apocalypse now
 
Frank Nelson on an episode of The Jack Benny Program:
 
Found these in my phone. Could be wrong but I believe they're from Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt:
 
choiliefan said:
Found these in my phone. Could be wrong but I believe they're from Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt:
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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.
 
Müller-Schmid Swiss Mountain Camera w/land-lock & a 5cm ƒ/2 combat lens.
Typical actor, finger in front of the RF window.

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

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