Apocalypse now

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
 
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! :D
 
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!
 
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.
 
Steve Bellayr said:
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.
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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
 
Did someone mention Seiko diver's watches? Please don't get me started, here is my fav, -

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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
 
Mmmmmm cigarette hands.

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

It ain't working. feeling urges. crap.
 
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.

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

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ES 335 dot neck burst?

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

Richard
 
Deep Fried said:
what is the camera that gets stolen from the cafe table?
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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.
 
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