OT: Cameras in movies

[chambrenoire]

Can't believe no one mentioned the Nikon F (I think) with the huge telephoto lens in classic "The Conversation" with Gene Hackman. Great great movie. Hmm, can't really think of any other movies right now.

 

[Matthew Allen]

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?

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27238&highlight=hollywoodland

I thought the film was pretty good.

Matthew

 

[chambrenoire]

Peeping Tom had some photography equipment in it, don't remember what though! Fun/twisted movie too.

 

[Maxapple88]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/themidnightmeattrain/trailer1b/

Is that what a Leica sounds like? I don't think so...

Hmm... That M4-P sounds so much faster than mine... I'd like to shoot 6 frames a second too, I think I was ripped off...

 

[manfromh]

There was a Hasselblad in Casino Royale (1967 movie), and the line "I'll give you 1/500th at f2"

 

[Spider67]

yes the famous Photog in Pecker uses a Contax G (I think it's Greg Gorman, there's also Cindy Sherman in a cameo).

What kind of Exakta is James Stewart using in Hitchcocks "Rear Window"?

I Milius' "Farewell to the King" The Japanese commanding officer is using an Exakta with a waist levelfinder possible if it's a Kine Exakta.

Yes and In K 19 they actually use a Zorki!

 

[agman]

Graphics in the movie!

Graphics in the movie!

See Eastwood's "Flag of Our Fathers". Lots of Graphics in that one.

 

[surlysimon]

Not a Movie but saw a Doco called "Hillary and Everest" which showed him using a Leica on the 1953 expidition. Later he is shown with a Canon around his neck in it's leather case, looks like a 7 from the case.

And what about "Rear Window"?

 

[fstop]

I recently saw a movie where a guy was shooting a parade with a screwmount Leica.

I think that could be Sam Shepard in Snow Falling on Cedars.

 

[peterm1]

Has anyone mentioned the M3 in Godfather 3?

For the other Leica tragics out there here is a pretty full listing of Leica sightings in movies. (Probably someones beat me to it - I have not checked.)

http://leica.nemeng.com/005ea.shtml

 

[AJ_W]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/shutter/

Spooky, haunted hasselblads. BTW, Does this only work with film?? 😀

 

[Matthew Allen]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/shutter/

Spooky, haunted hasselblads. BTW, Does this only work with film?? 😀

Oddly enough, as the last word of the phrase "caught on film" is uttered in the trailer, this image appears, the attached image appears. Go Pentax!

Matthew

 

[teo]

BTW, Does this only work with film?? 😀

light leaks?
expired negs/developer?
writers strike?😀

 

[MickH]

I saw this on TV last night. Can anyone ID the TLR? I'm sure you experts can:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAqzrtoEmMY&feature=related

 

[dougiec29]

Just saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind. When the aliens come to the science base there is a row of photo equipment, some 35mm, some 6x6. Then some woman snaps off about a whole roll of photos from really far away with her fixed lens rf. It was frustrating watching her click frame after identical frame...

 

[biomed]

I don't recall the name of the movie, but there was a scene that took place during World War II with two British agents sitting in a car photographing another person some distance away with a Zorki (4?) equipped with a turret finder.

 

[spysmart]

Minox B in Pretty Poison

 

[Florian1234]

I just watched a German documentary about the annexion of Austria in 1938. There they showed a team of "racical documentary scientists". They used a Contax camera to take pictures of the examined people.😱


My 2 Euro cents.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Ringo's Pentax in A Hard Day's Night

 

[dof]

"Iris", the Dame Judi Dench biopic about Dame Iris Murdoch features a scene in which a friend snaps pictures on the beach with an older Leica. As a sound designer and Leica shooter, I was perturbed by the sound editors choice of a non-Leica shutter sound for the scene.

What's a girl to do?