Cameras spotted in The Bang Bang Club

[ItsReallyDarren]

Was the M3 the model with the glass or metal film pressure plate ... did it have the preview lever?

Oh yes, and was there any sign of balsam separation in the finder?

I haven't seen the movie yet, but tell me are the M3's painted black? I assume they were pros so their M3's must have been black.

Actually come to think of it, if there were REALLY pros they would have been sporting MP's.

 

[gb hill]

I like the Aussie sense of humor...refreshing. Now back to topic, I can't wait to see the movie but the best camera movie bar none is The Public Eye where Joe Pesci plays a Weegee type fellow. If you haven't seen it you are missing a good one.

 

[wilonstott]

Cheers Keith. Rough day at the office. Not sure why it rubbed me the wrong way exactly. Thanks for not being too put out.

 

[Blind_spark]

http://collider.com/wp-content/uplo...tsch_Neels_Van_Jaarsveld_Frank_Rautenbach.jpg

In this image, LtoR: A couple Nikon F3s + MD-4s, a Nikon F2A +MD-2, a Leica M3, an FM2 and either an FM or FE

I always feel really geeky when I can name the cameras in these films...someone else can identify the lenses =P

 

[Keith]

Cheers Keith. Rough day at the office. Not sure why it rubbed me the wrong way exactly. Thanks for not being too put out.

That's OK ... I think I did something similar in a thread you started about fill flash a while ago and had to apologise then too!

We have this habit down under ... coloquially it's known as 'taking the piss' and sometimes we forget that the rest of the world may be mystified by our need to do this occasionally. 😱

🙂

 

[Abbazz]

As for the movie in question, from the title I thought it must have been a new porno movie 😱

Or a documentary about the IMF...😀

Cheers!

Abbazz

 

[emraphoto]

I haven't seen the movie yet, but tell me are the M3's painted black? I assume they were pros so their M3's must have been black.

Actually come to think of it, if there were REALLY pros they would have been sporting MP's.

with respect (and a sense of humor), i think you have the pro mixed up with the camera lover. in my travels in the last week or so, around the necks/shoulders of pros;

two SERIOUSLY mangled nikon d2hs held together with a lot of silver duct tape.

a pair of older 1d bodies (maybe mkII) that looked like they double as hammers.

a whole bunch of rebel and nikon d90 types amongst the writers now doubling as photographer and sound guy crowd.

some mkIIIs with an amigo who finally upgraded after a good few years (he landed a side line teaching gig at the local college).

another gaggle of point and shoots and sony vixia camcorders amongst the ever growing blog crowd.

i suppose, now that i typed all that, a few well worn black paint m3s wouldn't be out of order. mp? probably not

 

[jaredangle]

Was just thinking about this movie, remembering one of the later parts of the movie where Greg (Ryan Phillippe) is using a Nikon F4. That's actually his second movie that he's used an F4 in... The first was in Cruel Intentions (1999) where he his photographing Selma Blair while she drinks a long island iced tea.

 

[perudo]

nothing to do with the cameras in the movie.... but one thing I like in the movie, was when he shoots a black frame after a good shot, just to have a mark on his negatives..... will try that eventually when I do concert photography 😉

 

[bobby_novatron]

I saw the movie a few weeks ago, thought it was pretty good. I suppose I am a little biased since it was a Canadian production. 🙂 It's nice to see my tax money actually go towards making a decent movie now and then.

perudo -- about the black frame, yes I agree with you, I thought that was a good idea as well. I tend to shoot black frames now and again, only because I'm a hapless photographer and accidentally shoot with my camera pointed at the ground or other nonsense.

So if I shoot a black frame by accident with my M6, does this mean I get a Pulitzer for shooting a picture of my lap? 😉

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[jaredangle]

By the way, the book is on the iTunes App Store for free, although I think it's an iPad-only version. I'm going to attempt at reading it on my iPhone, if it lets me.

 

[Luna]

If you got a black MP you are a Pro?

 

[mahleu]

I really enjoyed it. Read the book about a year ago, and my wife somehow managed to meet one of the photographers a while back as well. Being in SA also helps I think but I enjoyed the way the movie managed to mix day to day life with the horror of their jobs.

Interestingly Joao Silva who lost his legs shooting is back at work.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/back-in-action-and-back-on-page-1/

It was really nice to see people shooting film, I think Nikon provided a lot of funding, and hence there are a lot more Nikon's than anything else in it but it was still nice to see.

 

[dcsang]

Just watched the movie last night via my cable service (on demand) - I too was proud that Canada had a role in getting this story out there. I was unaware of Kevin Carter's back story although I was aware of his Pulitzer prize winning photo.

Reading all the stuff on Joao Silva is interesting and I noticed he had just posted (August 30) a lengthy tale of his ordeal and some reflection on his career over on the NY Times Blog:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/this-is-what-i-do-this-is-all-that-i-know/

I think I'll hunt down the DVD of the film when it comes out.

Cheers,
Dave

 

[dave lackey]

Just watched the movie last night via my cable service (on demand) - I too was proud that Canada had a role in getting this story out there. I was unaware of Kevin Carter's back story although I was aware of his Pulitzer prize winning photo.

Reading all the stuff on Joao Silva is interesting and I noticed he had just posted (August 30) a lengthy tale of his ordeal and some reflection on his career over on the NY Times Blog:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/this-is-what-i-do-this-is-all-that-i-know/

I think I'll hunt down the DVD of the film when it comes out.

Cheers,
Dave

Dave,

The DVD is available here:

http://www.amazon.com/Bang-Club-Ryan-Phillipe/dp/B0052T1EF4

 

[jaredangle]

I saw the movie a few weeks ago, thought it was pretty good. I suppose I am a little biased since it was a Canadian production. 🙂 It's nice to see my tax money actually go towards making a decent movie now and then.

perudo -- about the black frame, yes I agree with you, I thought that was a good idea as well. I tend to shoot black frames now and again, only because I'm a hapless photographer and accidentally shoot with my camera pointed at the ground or other nonsense.

So if I shoot a black frame by accident with my M6, does this mean I get a Pulitzer for shooting a picture of my lap? 😉

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I found the tax dollar quote funny, because at the college newspaper I work at, my managing editor wrote an opinion article about how the new Batman movie was originally planned to be shot in Detroit, MI, but got moved to Pennsylvania because the Michigan government reduced the film tax credits.

 

[rxmd]

Ok ... back to items of interest in movies! 🙂

I had a friend years ago when the Bonnie and Clyde movie came out who was into early American cars. I remember sitting in the theatre with him during the movie while he took note of which cars had an incorrect door handle for that particular model and so on. In one scene where a car rolled over he was even able to tell me that the exhaust system wasn't correct! 🙂

Ugh. I sat in a Lord of the Rings premiere next to a Tolkien nerd once who muttered the words to all the songs and poems under his breath as they were spoken in the movies and I thought that was bad.