The female models in camera manual

[kl122002]

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 ?

 

[abruzzi]

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.

 

[Dustin McAmera]

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!

Kodak Girls

 

[bdial]

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.

 

[xkaes]

 

[chuckroast]

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.

From:

Ken Rockwell Review

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

 

[Dustin McAmera]

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

 

[Don_ih]

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

Thanks for funnelling the falsetto into my head....

 

[chuckroast]

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

Uhhhhm, you are dimissed and sent to the corner for bad punning ... (and I am so grateful you did - still giggling ...)

 

[BrianShaw]

Thanks for funnelling the falsetto into my head....

I didn’t understand the comment until you replied; now it’s in my head too. Gee, thanks.

 

[Don_ih]

Gee, thanks.

You're welcome.

 

[BAC1967]

This thread reminded me of China Girls. Leader Ladies Project

 

[Europan]

Have anyone ever studied the models in the camera manuals?

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.