Disaster_Area
Gadget Monger
So it was my girlfriends turn to pick the sunday night movie and she chose a Closer... a definate chick flick but Julia Roberts plays a famous (fictional) photographer so that peeked my interest. I was expecting to see her carrying around the latest digital from one of the big two as an obvious product placement but I was pleasantly surprised when the first scene shows her shooting with a hassleblad, and actually using it correctly.... ok.. +1 points. During the course of the shoot she actually shoots twelve frames then changes backs to continue, something machine guns in action movies should pay attention to +2 points. Later on she decides to do a less formal shoot, and what comes out of her bag... a gorgeous little Leica RF!!! +3 points! She raises the camera to her eye.. advances the film...adjusts the aperture... focuses... and then just as I thought a movie actually got photography right... with the deafining crash of thunder she takes a picture and the camera goes "CLICK"....
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After all that they dubbed in the loudest shutter clang an SLR could manage every time she took a shot... when she finished the roll I swear I heard Oskar Barnack crying from beyond the grave.
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After all that they dubbed in the loudest shutter clang an SLR could manage every time she took a shot... when she finished the roll I swear I heard Oskar Barnack crying from beyond the grave.
