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I did a lot of motorsports photography back in the 80s and 90s. Back then I had a Sigma 600mm f/8 mirror. I used it often at the races. There are many interesting spots on racetracks that you can't reach in any other way. This is a Fujichrome slide of some SCCA club racing back in about 1985 or 86. I also used the Sigma a lot for airshows. Mirrors have their moments.
Old cameras also appear in new pictures too. In an installment of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" which is set in the 1920's Miss Fisher takes some crime scene pictures with a 120/620 folding camera.
Old cameras also appear in fashion model shoots. I am at a loss as to why the model holds an old camera rather than a digital one.
Old cameras also appear in fashion model shoots. I am at a loss as to why the model holds an old camera rather than a digital one.
Not an old movie but I was just watching an episode of "White Collar" on Netflix. Mozzie was using a Stereo Realist as a surveillance camera. What a joke!
I never used to notice the circles until it was mentioned in an article once.
It can be distracting. Other times it may help - I recall seeing a color photo of sailboats on a lake, the sunlight reflecting off the blue surface in little round circles of light. That looked good to me.
The 1940 Hitchcock film "Foreign Correspondent" where a press photographers steps forward to take a picture of a Dutch diplomat in pouring rain but he is an assassin concealing a gun underneath the double darkslide in his hand. As it was a Hollywood film I suspect that the camera was a Speed Graphic
My thanks to AgX in another thread on cameras in movies for giving me the link to the still shot that reveals that the darkslide covers the gun. A very clever scene and a very good film
pentaxuser
My thanks to AgX in another thread on cameras in movies for giving me the link to the still shot that reveals that the darkslide covers the gun. A very clever scene and a very good film
pentaxuser
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"Modified" Vitessa 500 AE
As far as I know all models of the 500 have got a hot shoe. The prop master just cemented a flashcube onto it.
At the still photo you see the chrome line at the top that indicates the AE model and behind that the flanges of the hot shoe.
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As far as I know all models of the 500 have got a hot shoe. The prop master just cemented a flashcube onto it.
At the still photo you see the chrome line at the top that indicates the AE model and behind that the flanges of the hot shoe.
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Hi,
In the Beatles "A hard days night" one of the Beatles (maybe George) has a black Pentax (H3?) with possibly a 105mm f2.8 lens.
Usually most movies during 1966-1974 have photographers using Nikon F's or a Rolleiflex TLR in the field and Hasselblad in the studio. The Honeywell Strobonar flashes were pretty common as well.
Rick
In the Beatles "A hard days night" one of the Beatles (maybe George) has a black Pentax (H3?) with possibly a 105mm f2.8 lens.
Usually most movies during 1966-1974 have photographers using Nikon F's or a Rolleiflex TLR in the field and Hasselblad in the studio. The Honeywell Strobonar flashes were pretty common as well.
Rick
In "A Hard Days Night," it's Ringo shooting the black Pentax. In the Hulu documentary "Eight Days a Week" George is shown playing with it sitting next to Ringo in an airplane. This time the camera is sporting a top-mounted meter. There are also some old camera shots in that film. Following are some screen shots I took.
BOAC Comet and 35mm Arriflex?
Hatari! (1962) - Actress Elsa Martinelli holding a Nikon SP.
Three great movies with old cameras that haven't been mentioned on this thread yet:
TRIAGE (2009)
SPY GAME (2001)
CITY OF GOD (2003)
These are all pretty good movies. I'd recommend them
TRIAGE (2009)
SPY GAME (2001)
CITY OF GOD (2003)
These are all pretty good movies. I'd recommend them
"Die Fünfte Kolonne" ,west-german tv spy movie, episode 2 1963:
Fashion Photography in Munich
Technika 6x9
(first time ever I see it in a movie)
Unidentified 4x5 SLR
likely some model of Primar Görlitz Reflex-Primar
Fashion Photography in Munich
Technika 6x9
(first time ever I see it in a movie)
Unidentified 4x5 SLR
likely some model of Primar Görlitz Reflex-Primar
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Because they are cool. Digital cameras are not.
Those same fashion shoots may have a model astride a vintage Vespa for the same reason.
Okay, these aren't cameras, but lenses. Remember the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice? Bond and a Japanese woman are fleeing some bad guys in a Toyota roadster and apparently there's a TV screen and a couple of lenses mounted somewhere between the seats. The lenses are Asahi-made. One of them, the one on the left, is a run-of-the-mill 1.4/50 Super Takumar, but the one on the right is a mite unusual. It's a Quartz Takumar 3.5/85, S/N 949612. I'm not familiar with a Quartz Takumar. Are any of you?
Here's a shot showing both lenses -- this is as clear as I could get it off the screen:
And here's a shot where the right side of the view was cropped (not by me), but it at least shows the word "Quartz" a bit clearer.
Bond is also flying around in a gyrocopter a bit later with a funny looking "camera" mounted to his helmet -- a prop for sure. But I wasn't able to find a frame with a clear image of it.
Here's a shot showing both lenses -- this is as clear as I could get it off the screen:
And here's a shot where the right side of the view was cropped (not by me), but it at least shows the word "Quartz" a bit clearer.
Bond is also flying around in a gyrocopter a bit later with a funny looking "camera" mounted to his helmet -- a prop for sure. But I wasn't able to find a frame with a clear image of it.
Quartz-Takumar is designed for UV photography.Okay, these aren't cameras, but lenses. Remember the James Bond movie, You Only Live Twice? Bond and a Japanese woman are fleeing some bad guys in a Toyota roadster and apparently there's a TV screen and a couple of lenses mounted somewhere between the seats. The lenses are Asahi-made. One of them, the one on the left, is a run-of-the-mill 1.4/50 Super Takumar, but the one on the right is a mite unusual. It's a Quartz Takumar 3.5/85, S/N 949612. I'm not familiar with a Quartz Takumar. Are any of you?
Here's a shot showing both lenses -- this is as clear as I could get it off the screen:
And here's a shot where the right side of the view was cropped (not by me), but it at least shows the word "Quartz" a bit clearer.
Bond is also flying around in a gyrocopter a bit later with a funny looking "camera" mounted to his helmet -- a prop for sure. But I wasn't able to find a frame with a clear image of it.
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