What cameras does Elvis have?

[ornate_wrasse]

Can anyone identify the cameras and/or lenses in this image?
I believe it was taken in 1957, the year Jailhouse Rock was released.

I thought the good folks on this forum who are familiar with 1950's era cameras might know the answer.

If the attached image is too small, I can provide the link to see a larger image.

Thanks.

Ellen

 

[ornate_wrasse]

Here's a link to the image, which may make it easier to ID the cameras:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blast_of_the_past/5677142088/

Have fun with this "blast from the past" 🙂

Thanks for your help in identifying the cameras/lenses!

Ellen

 

[jammcat]

Rolleiflex f3.5 (not sure which model), Leica M3, and what whatever the heck that camera is on the far right...

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

It looks like a Rolleiflex Automat with one of the 75mm f/3.5 lenses, a Leica M3, and a Nikon S2.

 

[Erik van Straten]

Apart form the Rollei, I see two Leica M3's, the left one with a collapsible Summicron. The lens on the right M3 I cannot identfy, it may be a Canon 100mm.

Erik.

 

[xayraa33]

Apart form the Rollei, I see two Leica M3's, the left one with a collapsible Summicron. The lens on the right M3 I cannot identfy, it may be a Canon 100mm.

Erik.

I agree, two M3 cameras and a Rollei TLR.

Too bad lovely Judy Tyler passed away so soon after that photo shoot in a car accident.

 

[varjag]

This is one of the cameras:


Elvis Museum by varjagg, on Flickr

This is what his personal photog been using:


Elvis Museum by varjagg, on Flickr

 

[Sparrow]

... he upgraded later

 

[Greyscale]

I'm pretty sure that Elvis had whatever camera that he wanted. 😀

 

[heartattackandvine]

I reckon the same goes for women, too. 😀

 

[Sparrow]

... more into cheeseburgers I understand

 

[Greyscale]

I reckon the same goes for women, too. 😀

Sheila Ryan, one of Elvis's girlfriends, went to the same high school that I did. She later married James Caan, and is the mother of Scott Caan. Man, that girl was hot, hot, hot. As were her sisters.

 

[sahe69]

Looks like a baby Rolleiflex to me, or then Elvis had huuuge hands 🙂

edit: had a second look - I might actually be wrong about the camera

 

[Greyscale]

... more into cheeseburgers I understand

I believe fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches were his weakness.

 

[whitecat]

I have to go with the Baby Rollei. Look at the light colored skin.

 

[Sparrow]

I believe fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches were his weakness.

wow ... now that's a vice that comes with it's own penance

 

[Greyscale]

wow ... now that's a vice that comes with it's own penance

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...-butter-and-banana-sandwich-recipe/index.html

 

[Bob Michaels]

He appears to have a unique style of looking through the finder and tripping the shutter.

... he upgraded later

 

[ornate_wrasse]

I must admit that I didn't quite expect, when I asked the question about Elvis' cameras, to see a picture of a half-naked lady in the thread 😱

Thanks for everyone's input. I pretty much suspected that at least one of the cameras was an M3, mainly because it looks like the one I own, but didn't know about the others.

Ellen

 

[TXForester]

Somebody should have told him not to hang the cameras so they bang into each other, but then he wouldn't have looked like a "pro." 🙂