OT: Cameras in movies

wrenhunter said:
... Also just saw City of God, where the young guy becomes a street photographer. Some cool crazy Brazilian cameras in that one, but I have no idea what they are!
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jvx said:
I think the young photographer does quite well in with his Nikon F and 135mm in Cidade de Deus... Well, at least he focusses the thing and holds it correctly :)
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I just saw this movie last night!
The first camera we see is a Kodak Retina Reflex S, and he gets great results from it and from there a newspaper stint with the Nikon F lookalike.

In 'Closer'. Julia Roberts had a Leica M (6) with winder which took square format pictures :)

-Nick
 
wrenhunter said:
I just watched Chinatown again, where he uses a Leica (III?) and what I guess to be a 135/4 early on. Also just saw City of God, where the young guy becomes a street photographer. Some cool crazy Brazilian cameras in that one, but I have no idea what they are!
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it has been some time since i saw City Of God, but i recall all the Nikon love in that movie. F or F2, and various lenses (they talked briefly about the 135!)
 
Socke said:
I've just seen one film where somebody used a Contax G, can't remember the name of the film and the story line, only that it was some thriller which didn't thrill me much :)
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Check up on John Malkovitch's works...

There are many other films where camera feature prominently (and sometimes less so).

In Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor", when the Henry Pu-Yi character was crowned for the second time, someone used an Exakta VXIIb camera with pentaprism which was not even dreamt of at the time.

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" has Juliette Binoche using a Praktica L-series camera which was made after the time the story was set in.

The main character of "The Public Eye" played by Joe Pesci was heavily based on Arthur "Weegee" Fellig and contained plenty of references. Apart from the cameras he used also note the KW Praxidos enlarger in his darkroom when the intruder walked through it. Some of the cameras used for particular occasions seemed to be rather odd choices though.

Other interesting movies include "The Eyes of Laura Mars" with Faye Dunnaway and a Nikon FM, "Pecker" with Edward Furlong and Canonet, etc.
 
This is actually a TV Show

but there is an entire episode of the X-Files in the 6th season called "Tithonus" when there is a police photographer who is supposed to be roughly 130 years old... who tries to catch the image of death on camera

The reason he is suspected is because he always to be the first person at the scene of a crime.

I can't remember the camera he uses in it... its an SLR I think
 
I recently saw a movie where a guy was shooting a parade with a screwmount Leica. And I think there was a Contax G in pecker, when another photographer was taking pictures of Pecker.
 
chenick said:
In 'Closer'. Julia Roberts had a Leica M (6) with winder which took square format pictures :)

-Nick
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IIRC she had a couple of hasselblads in the movie as well.

I think in the movie "Fur", Arbus's husband was using a Leica III of some kind, cant remember which lens it was.
 
The only redeeming part of Spiderman 3 was that whoever did the props was a photographer with a sense of humor. All the normal journalists used standard DSLR/L-lens kits, but Peter Parker has an awesome F2, and Spiderman smashes Eddie Brock's flimsy D40+55-200VR. Brock then pulls out, of all things, a D-Lux to keep snapping away - I think this tells us something about his character :)
 
I recently watched the German series 'Heimat I' again on DVD. It's about life in a German village from 1918 until 1983. Photography is an important theme in all of the episodes. There are a lot of recognizable cameras. One of the main characters, Eduard, is a hobby photographer and uses a Leica III shortly before and during the war. It is confiscated by the Americans after the war. Another main character, Anton, starts a factory for lenses after the war. He is seen discussing the construction of a tilt lens with one of his engineers.

The pace of the series is rather slow and a lot is implied. Not all storylines are neatly tied in the end and the focus shifts from one character to the other. Both (stunning) color and black and white images are used in the same episode, without a real explanation. If you don't mind all this (I certainly don't!) this series is absolutely worth watching.

Wim
 
Found this lurking around the internet.
No idea what its from but it sure is a nice one.
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M2 with Goggled Summaron and a piece of crap flash.
 
You can see several cams in (anti) war movies, such as "Full Metal Jacket", "We were Soldiers" and I think also in "Hamburger Hill".
 
Some of my fav. films with / or about photogs or with notable use of cameras:
"Closer" Julia Roberts plays a photographer, who uses M6 and medum-format Hassel

"Angel's Dance" - James Belushi plays a mob hitman, and uses SLR camera for tracing his next victim. It was big black SLR with telephoto lens (I don't know which one, the logo was not shown). Belushi also prints in darkroom (and it looks like he knows how to do it )

"Pret-a-porte"(REady to wear) - fashion photographer Milo O'Brennigan (played by Stepnen Rea) , uses MF equipment. He also uses sort of "spy camera" (16mm probably), to blackmail female editor of fashion magazine

"Canninal Rising" - young Lecter traces his victim with sort of Leica II in streets of Paris. Darkroom scenes also depicted

"Blue Velvet" (David Linch film). This is a strange type of camera. Protagonist played by Kyle mclaughan, spies for local mafia with sort of handmade camera (or normal camera hidden in the box). It was mounted on the top of his car's hood as a black box with a hole. Operated remotely with cable release, passed through the car window
 
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I saw a leica being carried in the streets of pakistan (or was it afghanistan) in the movie 'The Kite Runner'.
 
Adrien Brody is using a rangefinder (I believe) in the film Hollywoodland. But I don't know what kind. I haven't seen the film, only the trailer.

Can anyone confirm this?
 
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