Topic: Cameras in films

[Verian]

I was watching The Verdict last night, Paul Newman with an SX-70, so cool!

[Verian]

Best Shot with Gene Hackman, set in 1952.

[limr]

Jimmy Olsen (played by Marc McClure) in the 1978 movie version of Superman:

[LT]

We had a thread about this 6 years ago (I know, it's mad to think we've been around that long ... I thinks it's 8 actually). There are some good suggestions in it, but I'm sure there have been a lot more movies to add since:

http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=759.msg6990#msg6990

[tkmedia]

Leica M2 an old october film, High Art with Radha Mitchell (Neighbours, Finding Neverland, Man on Fire) and Ally Sheedy (War Games, Breakfast club, Heart of Dixie) .

[Verian]

I think this is from the film Fur (2006), Nicole Kidman playing Diane Arbus.

[Verian]

Sometimes I feel like this!

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now

[Ezzie]

John Malkovich and Julian Sands in Killing fields

[mcduff]

Sometimes I feel like this!

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now

Haha I missed that one earlier. Good thing I saw it as I was about to waste time trying to find a pic of Hopper looking like that - I remember that look and I have not seen that flick in decades.  While I was just a little kid during the Vietnam war, if someone today  said 'war photographer' that is the war I think of. I think because the Hopper character in that flick was based on an element of truth - or at least a mythology that was being presented of the "rogue war photog with his nikon f or OM-1" (not to be exclusive to these models, I just remember ads for these cameras bragging about their use 'in the field').

[Verian]

Sometimes I feel like this!

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now

Haha I missed that one earlier. Good thing I saw it as I was about to waste time trying to find a pic of Hopper looking like that - I remember that look and I have not seen that flick in decades.  While I was just a little kid during the Vietnam war, if someone today  said 'war photographer' that is the war I think of. I think because the Hopper character in that flick was based on an element of truth - or at least a mythology that was being presented of the "rogue war photog with his nikon f or OM-1" (not to be exclusive to these models, I just remember ads for these cameras bragging about their use 'in the field').

My first thoughts that come to mind when war photography is mentioned are Capa and McCullin usually. Especially lately as there was an excellent documentary on BBC 4 on McCullin, well worth a watch. Hopper certainly does look classic though!

[mcduff]

Blow-up is one of those films that film historians love. I really like it, but it may be too pretentious for some. The director Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the big italian directors from what many would consider italy's golden age of cinema (the 50's to 60's)

It is a great story line for photog nerds:  a fashion photographer whom thinks he may have accidentally taken a photo of a murder. 'Blow-up' refers of course to what he does in the darkroom, to the general chaos that ensues, and I think to what Antonioni wanted to do with your head (the ending is a little crazy). It has been a long time since I saw this in some film studies course, so I can't remember the details. I guess i will add it to my 'to watch/rewatch' list, which has some new additions from this thread 



And yes, its a good old Nikon F

Edit: Somewhere a couple of audio nerds are having a parallel discussion about movies where audio equipment plays a pivotal role, and one of these audio nerds will mention Blow Out -- which is an homage/rip off by brian depalma about an audio engineer that accidentally records a murder. This, too me, gives Blow-up bonus nerd points 

[mcduff]

Sometimes I feel like this!

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now

Haha I missed that one earlier. Good thing I saw it as I was about to waste time trying to find a pic of Hopper looking like that - I remember that look and I have not seen that flick in decades.  While I was just a little kid during the Vietnam war, if someone today  said 'war photographer' that is the war I think of. I think because the Hopper character in that flick was based on an element of truth - or at least a mythology that was being presented of the "rogue war photog with his nikon f or OM-1" (not to be exclusive to these models, I just remember ads for these cameras bragging about their use 'in the field').

My first thoughts that come to mind when war photography is mentioned are Capa and McCullin usually. Especially lately as there was an excellent documentary on BBC 4 on McCullin, well worth a watch. Hopper certainly does look classic though!

I will find it and watch it. Just did a quick read about McCullin and coincidentally he has a photo (according to the wikipedia) that plays a prominent role in "Blow Up".

[Verian]

I saw Blow-Up years ago, can't remember much about it though, other than I had a 'thing' for Sarah Miles, and probably Jane Birkin as well!

[tkmedia]

Guinevere (1999) with Stephen Rea and Sarah Polly

"They are shot on Plus X with a 105mm on a Nikon F2, developed normal, two stops overexposed. "

[tkmedia]

Heartless (2009) with Jim Sturgess.
Nikon F90X
"Digital, digital is.... like a sketch. Film is..."
"I bring this everywhere"(cheap plastic camera) "At least its film."

[tkmedia]

eyes of laura mars

[nachtiris]

Rear window.

I do not know the brand of the camera.

[Fluminian]

It looks like an Exakta or a Topcon.

[Verian]

Rear window.

I do not know the brand of the camera.

Google tells me it was an Exacta

[Adam Doe]

I saw Blow-Up years ago, can't remember much about it though, other than I had a 'thing' for Sarah Miles, and probably Jane Birkin as well!

As did I but it was also 'cause of the Yardbirds' appearance in the film.

[Verian]

I saw Blow-Up years ago, can't remember much about it though, other than I had a 'thing' for Sarah Miles, and probably Jane Birkin as well!

As did I but it was also 'cause of the Yardbirds' appearance in the film.

'After driving into town, he sees Redgrave and follows her into a club where The Yardbirds, featuring both Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck on guitar, are seen playing'

I have absolutely no recollection of that at all! I will have to watch it again now.

[Verian]

Argus C3 from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (as used by Colin Creevey)

[Paul Mitchell]

Blow-up is one of those films that film historians love. I really like it, but it may be too pretentious for some. The director Michelangelo Antonioni is one of the big italian directors from what many would consider italy's golden age of cinema (the 50's to 60's)

One of my first jobs when I came to London was working for a design agency just off Sloane Square. I had only been working there for about a couple of months when my boss told me that right where my desk sat they filmed the notorious Blow Up tumble in the backdrop scene! There was also a photographer in the basement and they used his darkroom for some of the scenes. I'll always remember that the photographer kept a large bowl of what I thought was potpourri on his coffee table until one day someone picked some up, popped it in a large roll up and started to smoke it! Those were the days!!

[tkmedia]

Rear window.

I do not know the brand of the camera.

Like others said it is a Exakta. It's a an Exakta VX.

[nachtiris]

Rear window.

I do not know the brand of the camera.

Like others said it is a Exakta. It's a an Exakta VX.

Thanks to everybody!

[AJShepherd]

The wedding photographer in the opening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is using a Mamiya Press.

[Verian]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[Ed Wenn]

One of my first jobs when I came to London was working for a design agency just off Sloane Square. I had only been working there for about a couple of months when my boss told me that right where my desk sat they filmed the notorious Blow Up tumble in the backdrop scene! There was also a photographer in the basement and they used his darkroom for some of the scenes. I'll always remember that the photographer kept a large bowl of what I thought was potpourri on his coffee table until one day someone picked some up, popped it in a large roll up and started to smoke it! Those were the days!!

A lovely thread just got even better.....wonderful story, Paul.
 

[mcduff]

One of my first jobs when I came to London was working for a design agency just off Sloane Square. I had only been working there for about a couple of months when my boss told me that right where my desk sat they filmed the notorious Blow Up tumble in the backdrop scene! There was also a photographer in the basement and they used his darkroom for some of the scenes. I'll always remember that the photographer kept a large bowl of what I thought was potpourri on his coffee table until one day someone picked some up, popped it in a large roll up and started to smoke it! Those were the days!!

Thanks for the story, Paul! Now I have my Antonioni `six degrees of separation'!! Given the large bowl of pot-pourri, I am glad you were able to remember the day for us, haha. I have not seen the flic for about 10 years but I have clear memories of that darkroom. Most epic.

[imagesfrugales]

Guinevere (1999) with Stephen Rea and Sarah Polly

Besides "Blow Up" my fav film on photography, lots of great bw still pictures and a beautiful Miss Polley- sigh ..... I like kitsch stories like this. "And the chicks are great" (quote from "Almost famous", sorry).

[nachtiris]

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Penelope Cruz: Goddess! And a glimpse of a Leica MP (or M7?) ;-)

[Verian]

Cicky Cristina Barcelona

Penelope Cruz: Goddess! And a glimpse of a Leica MP (or M7?) ;-)

I read somewhere it was an MP8, Digital! Doesn't mater though, I'm not really looking at the camera!

[irv_b]

City of God
A bit of a violent film (but it is actually quite enjoyable ). One of the main characters uses a couple of different cameras during the film and get some work for a paper/magazine

[AJShepherd]

Not a film, but in the anime "Tamayura" (the second series of which recently finished) the main character Fuu Sawatari uses her late father's Rollei 35S as a way of honouring his memory and following the interest in photography he passed down to her. It's quite sweet and the attention to detail suggests that someone involved in the production owns and loves a Rollei 35 of their very own.

[Late Developer]

Went to see "Rush" last night. No, not the greatest rock band that ever drew breath, the film of the same name about James Hunt and Niki Lauda.  There are countless scenes with various reporters and fans sporting all manner of film cameras.

Given it was set in the years leading up to Hunt winning the F1 World Championship (1976), I think there may have been a couple of continuity errors - i.e. cameras that hadn't been released at that point. I can't be 100% sure, as they were only seen in "fleeting glances" but I think I may have seen a Nikon F3 (1980) and Canon F1-N (1981).

Very good film, by the way....

[sapata]

Went to see "Rush" last night. No, not the greatest rock band that ever drew breath, the film of the same name about James Hunt and Niki Lauda.  There are countless scenes with various reporters and fans sporting all manner of film cameras.

Given it was set in the years leading up to Hunt winning the F1 World Championship (1976), I think there may have been a couple of continuity errors - i.e. cameras that hadn't been released at that point. I can't be 100% sure, as they were only seen in "fleeting glances" but I think I may have seen a Nikon F3 (1980) and Canon F1-N (1981).

Very good film, by the way....

I was at one of the film sets last year!
http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=5161.msg59875#msg59875

[Verian]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[nachtiris]

Sometimes I feel like this!

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now

A little bit offtopic, but a nice shot from the filmset

Marlon aka Colonel Kurtz and Mary Ellen Mark

[tkmedia]

Anne Bancroft with a Polaroid Impulse

CIMM: Love Potion no.9 by Studioesper, on Flickr

[Rafael Morales]

"Topaz" has some cool Olympus Pen action.

[John]

Juliette Binoche and a Praktica LTL in the 'Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[Verian]

I am a little bit in love with Juliette Binoche, perhaps more now!

[Verian]

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, Funny Face, 1957, Rolleiflex and a Leica?

I love Audrey Hepburn as well!

[Francois]

Yep, Rolleiflex and Leica.
From what I heard years ago, Fred Astaire did use a Rolleiflex for his own pictures.

[irv_b]

 When I got home today and I switched on the telly the film ' The Bedford Incident' was on. It stars Sidney Poiter as a photojournalist on a battleship duiring the Cuban crisis. He uses a couple of Nikons.

[tkmedia]

television show The Blacklist

[Rafael Morales]

Lots of camera action Watchmen.

[Verian]

Benedict Cumberbatch with Rolleiflex 3.5F(?) in Parades End (admittedly a TV Series)

[Verian]

Albeto Amarilla with a Rolleiflex in Imago Mortis (2009)

[Verian]

television show The Blacklist

This MUST be the most recent!