Apocalypse now

[intheviewfinder]

The Nikon F was virtually indestructible (I did fry three of them on White Sands Proving Ground but that's a whole other story). It was New York camera repairman Marty Forcher who first called it, “a hockey puck.”

--Rich

 

[Keith]

I agree that Easy Rider wasn't a great movie per se but I think it was more about that time period in the US that struck a chord with many people. Woodstock, the hippie movement, drugs and all that other stuff that the older generation hated!

I was seventeen and rode motorcycles and listened a lot to the music/artists that were in the film soundtrack ... so I guess it all meant something to me! 😀

 

[bhop73]

I dressed as that character for halloween last year.. most of my coworkers didn't get it, but a couple did.. heh. My neck hurt after a while..


Zap em' with your sirens, man! Zap em' with your sirens! by bhop, on Flickr

 

[Pastor Chris]

The only reason some didn't recognize you is that you are only carrying three cameras, the photojournalist had five, which is one, you only had 3/5! That's a fraction! Can you head out into space and land on a fraction? No way man!

 

[Nokton48]

Here's a still from the movie set. I still think those are all Nikon F's.
I've owned at least a dozen of them myself, starting in the mid 70's.
From a distance, the all-silver selftimer is a giveaway.

http://camaracoleccion.es/imagenes/Apocalypse_Now_c.jpg

 

[Steve Bellayr]

For Pastor Chris & Deep Fried: The Seiko 6309 is a later model. It was worn by Charlie Sheen in "Platoon". Both look alike from a distance but side by side close up they are quite different. Besides the markings for the minutes & the hands which are different as well as the bezel, the 6309 is larger. The 6105 is Vietnam Era while the 6309 is after.

 

[Pastor Chris]

Steve, thanks for sharing your knowledge of Seiko! I might have to keep and eye out for a 6105.

 

[Deep Fried]

For Pastor Chris & Deep Fried: The Seiko 6309 is a later model. It was worn by Charlie Sheen in "Platoon". Both look alike from a distance but side by side close up they are quite different. Besides the markings for the minutes & the hands which are different as well as the bezel, the 6309 is larger. The 6105 is Vietnam Era while the 6309 is after.

Oh I'm well aware🙂 (but I'm rehabilitated now....mostly)

The 6309 is THE single most beautiful cushion case diver ever made. The dial is so perfect... makes my heart flutter. I tend to focus on that model whenever the subject comes up. I need to stop thinking about them or the camera budget will be toast

 

[RichW]

Did someone mention Seiko diver's watches? Please don't get me started, here is my fav, -

I was watch mad before becoming camera mad

Sorry for going OT 🙂 , Anyway - haven't seen that film in a while - now I have an urge!

Richard

 

[Deep Fried]

Mmmmmm cigarette hands.

I'm recovered from watches. I'm recovered from watches. I'm recov.....

It ain't working. feeling urges. crap.

 

[easyrider]

This thread would be incomplete without a mention of Horst Faas, who died earlier this month. Photos show him with multi-cameras, Nikon Fs and Leicas.
Here is a link:
http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/05/11/horst-faass-vietnam-war-photos/

You can see more shots of him if you Google him.

 

[ChrisN]

I have a Seiko 6309-7040 sitting on the desk beside me as I read this thread. I bought it new in 1975 (from memory) when I got my first full-time job. And here's a pic of me wearing it in 1981, at the top of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. True vintage stuff.

And you lot now have me looking for a copy of AN on DVD. 🙂

 

[Nokton48]

OK More on Dennis.

He couldn't remember his lines in "Apocalypse Now".

Loved his perfomance in "Blue Velvet". He told David Lynch he wanted to play Frank Poole, because he -was- Frank Poole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGXd9iYli8

 

[RichW]

ES 335 dot neck burst?

good guess JSU - but it's actually an Epiphone copy, can't afford the real thing 🙂

Richard

 

[rbsinto]

what is the camera that gets stolen from the cafe table?

I believe you are referring to a scene in "Full Metal Jacket" in which two Stars and Stripes PJs, "Rafterman" (Kevin Major Howard) and "Joker" (Mathew Modine) are sitting at a cafe table in Saigon(?) and are approached by a prostitute. As she distracts them with her sales pitch, men on a scooter drive by and grab one of their cameras from the table. It is a Nikon F.
As an aside, after retiring from acting, Howard went on to a long career as a Hollywood Headshot photographer.