Old Cameras in Old Movies

[Alex Benjamin]

Dean Martin with a TLR in The Silencers.

 

[AgX]

You did not recognize the camera. But I recognized the actor, at first sight. It is israelian Dahlia Lavi. Never heard of that movie though.

 

[snusmumriken]

Of course if you include Minox, the list will be very much longer

 

[madNbad]

“Julia” on HBO Max is about the first season of the “French Chef” on WGBH in the early 1960s. Paul Child (David Hyde Pierce) uses a Hasselblad 500C.

 

[AgX]

KMZ Horizont

taped Exacta VX , with modified prism (leatherette)

some Praktica L model



"Die Flucht" , political drama , East-Germany , 1977, setting: Cologne



where do you get such sight in one take...??






weird Exakta VX





Horizont with drum rotating!

 

[grat]

Sure it's not an Exa IIb?

 

[AgX]

You got it !

For unknown reason I only looked at Exaktas ...(East and West). And there only the VX with prism with added leatherette made sense.
But still, there seems a strip of tape at the front, or rather something solid, as there are no longer the edges visible at the front under the prism. Weird.


And I like the idea of doing portraits with a Horizont.

 

[AgX]

Lubitel 2


"Petrovka 38" , crime-movie , USSR , 1980



A chief police-investigator disguises himself as photojournalist with a big camera-bag, a flimsy tripod and a Lubitel !
The actor did not mount the camera correctly, it wobbles.

 

[guangong]

Buster Keaton in “Cameraman.”

 

[AgX]

KMZ Horizont

taped Exacta VX , with modified prism (leatherette)

some Praktica L model



"Die Flucht" , political drama , East-Germany , 1977, setting: Cologne



where do you get such sight in one take...??


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weird Exakta VX

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Horizont with drum rotating!

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I meanwhile realized that at the Exa IIb not only the frontplate but also the lens-ring was veiled.

The only reason that comes to my is a misunderstanding of trademark law. Which only prohibits commercial import and sale of products bearing a protected tradename. Not private import/travel of/with such.

The tradenames Exakta, (Exa too?), Tessar etc. were lost by east-german manufacturers to new west-german entities.
And as these scenes were filmed actually in West-Germany, someone at the production may have thought to brake he law by bringing with them or sporting the camera and lens.

 

[FujiMike19]

I just watched the original Top Gun and they mention using a Polaroid to capture an encounter with a Mig fighter jet. That would take a mighty steady hand!

 

[Donald Qualls]

they mention using a Polaroid to capture an encounter with a Mig

Don't recall if it was in the actual movie, but in the trailer, one of the back seaters pops a flash picture (while the pilot is flying inverted, canopy to canopy, with the Soviet) with a solid body Polaroid. Seems likely reflection from the canopy would blank out most of your subject, but it let the audience know he'd fired the camera.

 

[Europan]

Cameraman

That’s a Prévost, available since 1910. Théophile-Joseph-Lucien Prévost

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Did anyone mention the TV series The Wire. Early episodes have Nikon F.

 

[AgX]

A unidentified view-camera.

But actually too much photographic stuff to mention...
From the days when photographers still used effect-filters.

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Not actually a movie, but instead a long commerial in the style of the making-of the still photography for the Fiat 130.


"La natura la pazienza e il sogno nelle immagini della 130" , Italy , 1969

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[Helios 1984]

Mel Gibson using an unidentified point-and-shoot.
Conspiracy Theory (1997)

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Did anyone mention the TV series The Wire. Early episodes have Nikon F.

F2

 

[grat]

Mel Gibson using an unidentified point-and-shoot.
Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Olympus Infinity Jr. ?

 

[Helios 1984]

Olympus Infinity Jr. ?

I believe you are correct.

There's a scene that cracked me up. Jerry (Mel) is tailing a C.I.A Suburban with his taxi and pulls his camera to take a picture with the flash ON

 

[Chuck1]

Maybe an f2 in Salvador(James woods) early/ mid 80's

 

[Algo después]

this one: Elmer’s Candid Camera, Chuck Jones (1940)

 

[Kevin Ekstrom]

The finger is not on the shutter. It is amazing that she even has it aimed in the right direction.

Why is it amazing that she would be pointing the camera in the right direction?

 

[Algo después]

Film Cameras in Movies and TV Shows

If you're like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. My attention is quickly diverted and I play this little

mikeeckman.com

 

[Moose22]

Film Cameras in Movies and TV Shows

If you're like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. My attention is quickly diverted and I play this little

mikeeckman.com

Sorry, the entire site is compromised:

Leica fans went nuts over Brie Larson’s M3 with a 35mm Summaron with close-up goggles and an MR meter. Later in the film she is seen loading in a roll of period correct Kodak Plus-X film.

Those aren't close up goggles. They convert the 50mm view to 35mm view since the M3 has no 50mm frame lines. I can't believe they'd make that mistake!


Seriously, great link Algo. So much data there for this topic.

 

[AgX]

Seriously, great link Algo. So much data there for this topic.

With all respect for fellow member Mike and his listing, but the number of cameras and movies and, more important, the variety of movies and equipment is larger at our thread.


Sadly it ran kind of idle the last months. And I myself have to admit that I am running out of movies so to say, without repeating myself camera-wise.