Rolleiflex sighting

Sirius Glass · Aug 9, 2009

Up front and personal Rolleiflex sighting in the movie "Julie & Julia". Also a press camera and a photo magazine.

Steve

eddym · Aug 9, 2009

We saw it last night, and I spotted the TLR, too. Of course I nudged my wife, but she caught it, too.

Rolleiflexible · Aug 10, 2009

Melanie and I have been watching Route 66 on DVD.
In an episode from the first season, Layout At Glen
Canyon, Todd and Buzz are hired to guard four models
on a fashion shoot in Arizona. The photographer shoots
a Rolleiflex ... but no one gave the actor or director a
lesson on how it works. For example:

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/sandersnyc/LayoutAtGlenCanyon.jpg

When the press shows up in an episode, there are usually
a couple of photographers with Rolleiflexes (along with
the occasional Speed Graphic or Leica).

Route 66 has aged well -- the camera work and the
writing are superb, and Maharis and Milner have great
chemistry onscreen. And nearly all of it was shot on
location so you get a lot of 1960 small-town America
along the way.

George Collier · Aug 11, 2009

We have a DVD collection of the Perry Mason series (at least as many episodes as they have out..) and in one story, Paul Drake has to go to Mexico to find a suspect. Part of his masquerade as a tourist is... you got it - a Rollei, full leather case and all - and it never sees the light of day.

In another episode, the perp tries to falsify evidential timing at the scene of the crime - again, with a Rollei. They were the deal in the 60's.

Dave Pritchard · Aug 11, 2009

George Collier said:
We have a DVD collection of the Perry Mason series (at least as many episodes as they have out..) and in one story, Paul Drake has to go to Mexico to find a suspect. Part of his masquerade as a tourist is... you got it - a Rollei, full leather case and all - and it never sees the light of day.

In another episode, the perp tries to falsify evidential timing at the scene of the crime - again, with a Rollei. They were the deal in the 60's.

Is that the one where the second hand on the clock was frozen between seconds?

Slixtiesix · Aug 12, 2009

One of my favourite movies is "Where the Heart is" with Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd. Natalie is accompanied by a Rolleiord and later a 2,8F if I remember right. A wonderful movie, even besides the Rolleis...

George Collier · Aug 12, 2009

(Is that the one where the second hand on the clock was frozen between seconds?)

Hey Dave - the one I meant is when the perp tries to confuse morning and evening, and gets caught, of course - by PM.

There is another one, I'm vague on - not a Rollei, something about a 4x5 set up at night to capture by trip wire, maybe the one you're thinking about.

chioque · Aug 12, 2009

Know what, after I read this thread, I went looking for my "Where the Heart Is" DVD and watched the movie again. I think, Portman's camera, latter on, was either an FX or GX, similar to that of the Wall Mart's photographer

chioque · Aug 13, 2009

chioque said:
Know what, after I read this thread, I went looking for my "Where the Heart Is" DVD and watched the movie again. I think, Portman's camera, latter on, was either an FX or GX, similar to that of the Wall Mart's photographer

My bad... I watched the movie again today and I don't think it's the fx or gx model.

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