Old Cameras in Old Movies

AgX · Dec 2, 2015

I assume the one and only movie where not only a Linhof Technika 70, but also several(!) Linhof 220s show up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMcAMZBkN8U
(In the action scenes from 43min onwards. Scenes partly filmed a few hundred meters off the Agfa plant.)

AgX · Dec 3, 2015

The portraitist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zytp-AGxBFo

Sirius Glass · Dec 3, 2015

I enjoyed that. Thank you.

GRHazelton · Dec 3, 2015

AgX said:
Yes, Pentacon Six TL (@58:12), but that was obvious. I found the studio lights more interesting.

Asahiflex. Early version still with WLF. Thank you.
I was completely unaware of this model and thus thought in a complete different direction (european make).

Agreed, Asahiflex. I have my Father's. Lovely little camera.

AgX · Dec 5, 2015

AgX said:
I assume the one and only movie where not only a Linhof Technika 70, but also several(!) Linhof 220s show up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMcAMZBkN8U
(In the action scenes from 43min onwards. Scenes partly filmed a few hundred meters off the Agfa plant.)

The Linhofs are used to take photographs for a photo-novel. With those action scenes those 220s would make sense, but not the 70 with its sheet-film back installed...

As stupid as the whole movie. Back then (1968) it was expected as flemish "Blow-Up". Remarkable might only be the girls and some Antwerp architecture.

CropDusterMan · Dec 5, 2015

macfred said:
Clint Eastwood used a motorized Nikon F in “The Bridges of Madison County”.

All of the cameras used in "Bridges of Madison County" were owned by photographer, Ken Regan. Ken, who passed away a few years ago was a friend. He worked on many of Clint's films as a still photographer and shot the film posters. Ken coached Clint on how to look like a photographer for the role, and as Ken has never parted with any of his cameras over the years, he was able to keep it period correct. It was an amazing collection of Nikons.

Funny story Ken told me...He and Eastwood were good friends, and Ken was renting Malpaso Productions all of the camera props, (for a good penny!) and he also had an old pick-up he wanted to
rent Eastwood for the film, but Clint already owned the old green Chevy in the film, and said something to the effect of "Ken, I'm already paying a ton of money for your old cameras, how much would that truck cost me?!"...he told him to forget it! LOL.

If you haven't seen it, check out the book Ken released prior to his passing...
"All Access...The Rock and Roll Photography of Ken Regan".

AgX · Dec 5, 2015

Interesting behind the scene information. With a photographer as main character, reality-like (or convincing, what might not be the same...) photographic handling is to be expected from the actor.

I often see very bad represantations of photographers by figurants. Having been a figurant at one movie myself I know that when being treated as shit one easily neglects being convincing, but only does as ordered which likely results in weirdness.

Paul Howell · Dec 5, 2015

Not an old movie, Trumbo, his wife is shooting with a Leica, don't know if it is a III F or G, but she is shooting with a long lens 90 or 135 without a finder, then there is cut away to what she sees through the the viewfinder, an AF type viewfinder. Another scene shows her developing prints, the darkroom equipment looks true to the times.

AgX · Feb 12, 2016

worst choice of camera?
A episode from a crime series depicting austrian crime-technician at Vienna in 1985
@51:45

I guess it can get worse
see for the title, the music style does not fit either

02Pilot · Feb 12, 2016

In "5 Fingers," James Mason uses what appears to be a black Leica II with an Elmar 50/3.5.

Full film (and a good one) here:

Trask · Feb 12, 2016

David A. Goldfarb said:
I watched the original, uncut, Japanese version of Godzilla (1954) recently, which featured several scenes with a scrum of press photographers using press cameras properly, changing the flashbulbs after each shot (something that seems to be forgotten in more recent films). One prominent one looked to have kind of a square, untapered bellows that popped out with folding struts on the side. Also a few other characters were carrying Japanese rangefinders of the era.

Ditto for "MOTHRA" -- lots of classic 50's Japanese cameras, some very visible and identifiable.

AgX · Feb 19, 2016

from another thread:

Alan Gales said:
Minox B in "On Her Majesties Secret Service".

Nikon F or F2 which also was a rocket launcher with antennae in "The Man with the Golden Gun".

I seem to remember Sean Connery using a Rolleiflex in one movie.

Fixcinater · Apr 17, 2016

I think this is a new one, there's a Rolleiflex plus a Nikomat/Nikkormat?? with a fairly big lens in the drawer of thefted goodies in A Clockwork Orange.

Don't click on the link if you want to have to look for it. Info is in the pict.

Load of "press" photogs with Nikon Fs or Nikkormats, same movie:

Also, there's a shot of Capa with a Super Ikonta, wide base Contax RF with 8.5cm Sonnar? and turret finder and a couple early Rolleiflexes in the movie about his life.

monkowa · Apr 17, 2016

Pvt. Joker and his partner use Nikon F's in Full Metal Jacket. I always thought that was rad.

AgX · Apr 30, 2016

Extracts from the 1966 movie "A Belles Dents"

removed account4 · May 5, 2016

its not an olde movie
but a newer one
leica slr and nikon slr
"ronin"

AgX · May 31, 2016

Lacking an apt movie at the moment, I thought this interlude apt:

VisualDarkness · Jun 16, 2016

Watched Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a doubt and spotted a Rolleiflex.

AgX · Jun 17, 2016

Extracts from the french movie "Anna" (1967):

By the way, that song "I saw your face" by Robby Benson was used in the movie "All the kind Strangers", not this one.

AgX · Jun 17, 2016

AgX said:
Praktica Six producing Polaroids (somehow... by chantaging girls):

"Die lieben Luder" GDR (1983) from the series Polizeiruf 110

New Link
(@ 2:15min)

Two23 · Jun 18, 2016

In "My Life as a Dog," the woman is using a Leica III. One of my favorite movies.

Kent in SD

AgX · Jul 25, 2016

Am still lacking an apt movie...

In the meantime watch this:
(Don't miss the exchange of SLRs, and even a SLR turning into a Canonet... pure magic...)

removed account4 · Jul 25, 2016

the public eye with joe pesci
he was felling-esque
and of course used
a speed or crown graphic.

Vaughn · Jul 25, 2016

Marvin said:
Speed Graphics are in many old B&W Movies, and movies trying to portray that era. Seems like a lot of work for a news photographer handling 4x5 holders and flashbulbs.

Beginning of the End is a classic sci-fi of 1957 -- a woman reporter uses a Speed Graphic and a film pack fairly well, though perhaps the flash bulbs were not really needed for day light photos. This movie is where the giant grasshoppers attack Chicago. The reporter plays a main role in the rest of the film but does not take many photos once the action (finally) starts.

AgX · Jul 25, 2016

Cameras of that type were long, long gone in Germany by that time. Only Linhof tried in the 50s a revival of LF or large-MF cameras for editorial photography especially with colour in mind.

The use of certain camera types partially is a matter of fashion and that may vary regionally.
(In this very case a legal aspect played a part too.)

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