[OT] FSU - A missed opportunity

[NorpA]

Hello folks,
I know this is a very focused forum, but let me go off topic for a while.
For these holidays, I thought it would be nice to spend some time watching old films and trying to get lazy as much as I could (no work, no telephone, no photos).

Yesterday I had the chance to see The Return (Возвращение - 2003) by Andrei Zvyagintsev, an excellent and dark story from the remote Russian wilderness (btw I suggest it for its amazing photography)... when my eyes were caught by a rangefinder camera handled by one character.

"Wow! It's a Zorki-10!"
I thought at the first glance.
Unfortunately, for our glorious FSUs, the next piece of film demonstrated it wasn't.

and

Yes, it's a Japanese Minolta Hi-Matic 9...
what a missed opportunity for Zvyagintsev to insert a beautiful cameo
using a more appropriate FSU camera in his production.

 

[tojeem]

It's a beautiful camera nonetheless. Personally I think the Zorki-10 is an ugly brick of a thing, though I agree that it would be more appropriate than a Minolta in a Russian film.

I always love to spot old cameras like these in films. It always gives me an insight into the character's sense of taste. I think more effort should be put into deciding which cameras are used in films.

Thanks for posting.

 

[farlymac]

Typical actor. Fingers over the viewfinder.

PF

 

[Muller]

Typical actor. Fingers over the viewfinder.

I noticed that too before I saw the "Minolta" badge. 😀

That always bugs about a movie, as does hearing a motor advance on a manual camera.

 

[greyelm]

You often see actors using old Leicas with the lens still collapsed. I've seen it in Poirot and recently in Just Henry.

 

[wolves3012]

You often see actors using old Leicas with the lens still collapsed. I've seen it in Poirot and recently in Just Henry.

I noticed that one in Just Henry and am I right in thinking it's too late a model for the claimed pre-war history of it? She said it came from "when Hitler was coming to power" or something similar. At least it *was* a Leica, as claimed though.

 

[wolves3012]

I'm often annoyed when cameras are used in films. The laughable one is where the Police etc take photos, hand-held from a car, parked up nearby, at night using a very long telephoto, high shutter-speed and get pin-sharp and perfectly framed prints! Not that I've tried it but it won't happen. Ditto the sound of the motordrive from a camera without one.

 

[greyelm]

I noticed that one in Just Henry and am I right in thinking it's too late a model for the claimed pre-war history of it? She said it came from "when Hitler was coming to power" or something similar.

I didn't use pause to get a good look at it but from a distance the IIIa and IIIc look similar. For accuracy it should be a III or IIIa.

 

[konicaman]

Movies are so full of funnies like that. I the first Crocodile Dundee Sue is trying to take a snap of the aboriginal Neville (in the deep dark night). Neville comments: You can't take my photograph. Sue: Do you believe it will take your spirit away? - No, you've got lens cap on.

Actually Sue should have known - using an SLR...

 

[Jack Conrad]

Ha. The police are issued high powered military grade gear, not the silly consumer junk we all use.
Their lenses have armor piercing mm's and can shoot right through brick walls. The lens glass isn't made with girly thorium, it's made with depleted uranium
that's so fast it bends light around corners.
The police are probably taking your picture right now... and laughing. 😱

Sorry, I'm having a coffee and donut rush. 😀

I'm often annoyed when cameras are used in films. The laughable one is where the Police etc take photos, hand-held from a car, parked up nearby, at night using a very long telephoto, high shutter-speed and get pin-sharp and perfectly framed prints! Not that I've tried it but it won't happen. Ditto the sound of the motordrive from a camera without one.

 

[Wahoo]

The police are probably taking your picture right now... and laughing. 😱

Or we could be photographing them and larfing .🙂 I think the bunch at the right/rear are sharing something.

 

[Grytpype]

I've noticed that in movies the actors seem to be incapable of taking a picture without moving the camera through 10 degrees or more as they press the shutter.

I wonder if they do the same when they're taking their own photos, or is it just the pressure of being on 'take 57'?

 

[Coldkennels]

I've noticed that in movies the actors seem to be incapable of taking a picture without moving the camera through 10 degrees or more as they press the shutter.

I wonder if they do the same when they're taking their own photos, or is it just the pressure of being on 'take 57'?

I do that all the time. It's a bad habit. I blame banjo playing; much too forceful with that right index finger. Not that I'm saying all actors are banjo players... but who knows?

The one that's bugged me recently was this Chanel advert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JITQY8FewA&feature=related

I didn't have a TV when it was first on, but it's been on over xmas this year. I'm sure it's probably been raised here before, but I don't know what kind of special powers Audrey Tautou has that enable her to use a zoom lens on an M8! :bang: