Old Cameras in Old Movies

[AgX]

"Delisin" comedy around a photographer , Turkey 1975


(tinkered) camera in village photo studio (please identify !)





Rolleiflex




Zeiss Ikon Contax S with Metz 402 flash

 

[AgX]

Robot I

"Über ganz Spanien wolkenloser Himmel" (Over all Spain clear Sky) TV political spy series , GDR , 1971

Setting: Spain in early summer 1936

The Robot is mounted with a clamp at a drawer facing downwards for photographing documents



surprisingly they got the aspect ratio right on the resp. film



from same episode: different film strips on a hanger, which does not fit the period

 

[AgX]

Kiev Vega (1959) model from 1962 with taped brand

"Über ganz Spanien wolkenloser Himmel" (Over all Spain clear Sky) TV political spy series , GDR , 1971

Setting: Spain in early summer 1936

photographing same documents as above

 

[Barry King]

Praktica or Exakta... a "commie" camera in Hollywood??

It was an Exakta Varex

 

[CMoore]

This is quite a good movie...very much worth seeing.
Anyway...... at about the 5:15 mark there are lots of 35mm SLR and flash units of the day..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g60ipvPA_g4

 

[Helios 1984]

Jeff Daniels - The House on Carroll Street (1988)

 

[GRHazelton]

Jeff Daniels - The House on Carroll Street (1988)

Okay! A Leica screw mount with a reflex housing, and a Zenza Bronica, perhaps a S2 or S2a? Pretty short lens on the Bronny for clandestine work... Not to mention a shutter racket to wake the dead! Ask me how I know!

 

[abruzzi]

Not exactly old, but I was rewatching the HBO TV show “The Wire”. And the police servelience from the rooftops was using a Nikon F2.

I also rewatched “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension” and there was a Nikon of some sort in the operating room scene in the beginning, with one of those big medical lenses with a built in ring light.

(Sorry, no easy way for me to snap screenshots.)

 

[Helios 1984]

Okay! A Leica screw mount with a reflex housing, and a Zenza Bronica, perhaps a S2 or S2a? Pretty short lens on the Bronny for clandestine work... Not to mention a shutter racket to wake the dead! Ask me how I know!

So the loud shutter sound was real? hahah

 

[removed account4]

la bamba ( movie about ricardo valenzuela[ richie valens] )
when he comes home for christmas lots of movie cameras, and still cameras
and using a table lamp out the top as a light box. hard to believe he was 17
buddy holly 22 and the big bopper was 29 when their plane crashed.

 

[AgX]

Minox A

"Rommel ruft Kairo" (Cairo, Rommel calling) spy-movie , West-Germany , 1958

Location: Cairo 1942, german spy in british uniform

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Minox A

"Rommel ruft Kairo" (Cairo, Rommel calling) spy-movie , West-Germany , 1958

Location: Cairo 1942, german spy in british uniform
...

The photo is not very clear, but possibly I see the meter-needle window at the top of the camera, making it a Minox B, such as here:

 

[AgX]

You made a good point, as an opened A and a closed B model are most hardly to differenciate. As both only show one big window.
The most easiest mark would be a black visual impression from the meter scale window. With a lot of goodwill such could be guessed at a single franme in this scene.
But I found a second scene where the model B can clearly be identified:



However the Minox is quite common at spy movies and I even hesitated to hint at all. as I rather like show other, uncommon or misplaced cameras.

 

[AgX]

fake small-gauge cine camera , in "spacy" style


"Werkstatt Zukunft II" (Lab Future II) sci-fi settled shortfilm on the meaning of the word "beautiful" GDR , 1972

some parabolic parts, resembling a hairdryer, a lens, a lens shade, on top a ball-head with light-meter mounted on it

 

[Theo Sulphate]

For secrecy, she is transmitting her photos on an amateur radio microwave band. Very clever.

 

[AgX]

Well seen! But wrongly concluded...

The microwave antenna makes part of the chairs of a panel. Though it is not related for what use. In any case when a panel member has a movie of his srceened the antenna is rotating. Likely a kind of early bluetooth...

 

[AgX]

Meopta Opemus 3 6x6 enlarger



"Gefährliche Freundschaft" (Dangerous Friendship) episode from GDR TV crime series 1982

 

[AgX]

Steineck ABC

Ever seen on screen before??


"Epilog - Das Geheimnis der Orplid" (Epilogue-The Orplid secret) crime movie , West-Germany 1950

 

[AgX]

I am clueless... after a lot of searching

Although this enlarger is very peculiar due to its double column.


"Die Störenfriede" (The Troublemakers) children movie , GDR , 1952

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I am clueless... after a lot of searching

Although this enlarger is very peculiar due to its double column.
...

It is similar to some Praxidos models, but I cannot find it either.

 

[AgX]

Canon AF35M

"Krecek v nocni kosili" (Hamster in a nightgown) children tv movie , CSSR , 1988

 

[glbeas]

Sitting here watching Mysteries at the Museum, segment on Matthew Brady doing Abe Lincolns portrait. They have the actor using a tiny camera on top of a cabinet with no ground glass on the back. Producers were clueless!

 

[GRHazelton]

I'm always amused to hear flashbulbs going off. Back in the day I used hundreds of flashbulbs - couldn't afford an electronic flash - and the only sounds they ever made was the occasional despairing crinkly sound, much like crumpling cellophane. .

 

[mshchem]

I'm always amused to hear flashbulbs going off. Back in the day I used hundreds of flashbulbs - couldn't afford an electronic flash - and the only sounds they ever made was the occasional despairing crinkly sound, much like crumpling cellophane. .

I loved the crinkle sound and the slight odor. I always think of Christmas, my Dad would shoot Kodachrome slides, Argus C3. I found his Ricoh folding flash holder the other day. I remember as a kid putting the test lamp in to check the battery.. 25B flashbulbs. A silver dime a piece.

I still have all those perfect slides. I made some really nice Cibachrome prints.

 

[AgX]

Praktisix with prism finder and unidentified flash unit

"Der Frühling braucht Zeit" (Spring needs time) , GDR , 1965