The female models in camera manual

kl122002

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Have anyone ever studied the models in the camera manuals? Just curious.

Who are they exactly? Where are they now ? Are there still here? The pdf -ed files just make them last longer than they could have imagined .
I know most of them are from Japan but who and how they get into the manual? Do they even know their picture are inside the camera manuals at that time ?
 

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The manuals I’ve seen are clearly staged with the model (male or female) holding the camera in a way demonstrating their use, so I assume they probably knew they were going to be in a camera manual. Also if they were 25 in a Nikon F2 manual which would make the in the vicinity of 80 today, so they may still be alive.
 

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Some of these 'Kodak girls' were grown women when they were photographed for catalogues etc., and that was more than a century ago for some of them!

 

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As I understand it, many of the “kodak girls” were not professional models, but were employee’s or relatives of employee’s.
I think it was probably a similar situation for the women in the camera manuals.
 

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This always made me chuckle:

When seen in brochures, the Leica man almost always is seen shooting out of the open top of a convertible. You'll see the Leica man wearing a suit shooting nature from his convertible in the 1954 Leica M3 instruction manual, and see him, much younger and less well dressed, doing the same in the Leica 2009 product catalog.

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P.S. I own and shoot Leica film cameras, but I do not have the means to be a "Leica man" ...
 

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Frankie Valli didn't have a convertible either; you got to Walk Leica Man...
 

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kl122002 said:
Have anyone ever studied the models in the camera manuals?
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I do, the subject can keep me busy at times.

Women photographed for publicity purposes are interesting, too.



So ridiculous how she doesn’t peep through the finder. On the other hand the attitude appears to give her that life is light touch.
 
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