Johnny Depp Uses a Kiev!?

Hi,

No surprises here; haven't you people counted the shots they get out of a revolver before reloading in a cowboy movie? Or did I waste my youth...

Regards, David
 
I learnt how to use my cameras by watching movies! MY 35mm film was always in horizontal half frame(movie), super tele lenses,used for portraits under 12", those long things like today' DSLR Canon and Nikon users carry around like a Hercules movie.No need to focus, fast motor drives in total darkness. Like the 6-gun in Westerns that never need re-loading. Extreme accuracy from a moving horse to a guy waiting to sniper shoot our hero.
There was a movie where a Leica M2 was used. Actual viewfinder! i was so stunned that i forgot rest of movie..
Later i read about photography and had a mentor!
Later i also had prints..
 
matthewm said:
It was a slow day at the office today so in between phone calls and a few emails and some other light duties, I caught up on a couple of things in my Netflix Instant Queue, most notably, The Rum Diary (an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel).

First, it's a great, great movie and is filmed extraordinarily well. The cast is top-notch and the whole project was, in my humble opinion, exquisitely done.

I noticed during one part of the movie that Johnny Depp was shooting with an older RF camera that resembled a Contax. At one point in the movie, he raises the camera to photograph a little girl and you see that it's actually a Kiev.

I'm not sure, but Kiev's probably weren't the journalist camera of choice back then. I would assume that it would have been an actual Contax RF.

Anyway, just thought it was funny. Here's a screen grab of it from my computer (gotta love that feature).

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That is a great observation. With regards to the movie - I thought on the whole it was rather weak compared to his other 'arthouse' flicks. It was almost like he was going through the motions. I did read an interview where he sailed on his yacht to the film set and was getting stuck into the guinnes. That hangover may explain his lethargic performance.
 
Probably quite necessary...

Probably quite necessary...

RanceEric said:
You would think, when they have actors use cameras, they would at least show them how to use it first.. Also funny when they dub oer the shutter sound and insert a stock camera sound (not sure if they did that in this movie)
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Dubbing in a camera sound appears logical. My Kiev (Kneb) is so quiet, I doubt the shutter sound would reach the microphone. So is is with "levelor" shutters.:)
 
Celebrity photographer site

Celebrity photographer site

That celebrity photographer site needs to identify the differences between the Nikon F and F2. I noticed that it claims that one of the Spice girls is using a Nikon F, when it's clearly an F2.

Her Majesty the Queen clearly knows how to use her Leica M3 properly!

Love that photo of Elizabeth Taylor with Rolleiflex. Don't know which is more beautiful - Taylor, or the camera. Anyone know which model Rolleiflex it is?
 
Jaans said:
That is a great observation. With regards to the movie - I thought on the whole it was rather weak compared to his other 'arthouse' flicks. It was almost like he was going through the motions. I did read an interview where he sailed on his yacht to the film set and was getting stuck into the guinnes. That hangover may explain his lethargic performance.
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Hmmm. I'm not a Johnny Depp fan and tend to avoid his movies. But I remember reading some of Thompson's stuff in school and caught this movie because of it. I'll re-watch it and see if I can pick up on some of your disappointments. I really enjoyed it, but would be interested in watching less of the story and more of the actors to see how they do.
 
Keep in mind who Depp is playing in the movie and the fact that Hunter S. Thompson was probably drunk or stoned most of the time, so who's to say he handled the camera any better than Depp. Finger of over the viewfinder window? Heck, Thompson might have had a the lens cap on while shooting.
 
About the only film with actors playing photojournalists I've seen where the actors seemed to actually know how to handle the gear was "Under Fire".
Nick Nolte, who played a PJ used Nikon F and F2s (and also carried a Leica which he never handled) and he handles them very well. The motorized F2 actually had film in it and in scenes where he is shooting with it, the rewind crank spins as he shoots.
 
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