Film Cameras in Movies
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0:00 intro
0:38 Spiderman
2:45 Walter Mitty
5:40 Harry Potter
8:32 Asteroid City
11:17 Jurassic park
13:57 Kong
15:51 Apocalypse Now
17:57 Oppenheimer
20:08 end
Following up with some corrections that people have pointed out:
1. Its a canon new f-1 that tom is using in spoderman.
2. Kiev 4 is a contax copy, not leica
3. Leica m3 also had 90mm and 135mm framelines
4. The lens from walter mitty i suggested didnt exist yet, its likely a 400mm, or possibly the 200mm f2. Aperture still wouldnt work on the f3 though and im furious about it
A part 2 please Jason
Try harder next time Jason >:(
@@highgardentwo6977 But not too much harder, I come here for the laid-back vibe. But anyway minor imprecisions create discussion and help build communities when the subject is dear to our hearts and uncontroversial.
lulz
Kiev is not really a Contax copy either. The first Kievs were continuity cameras made by the same technicians on the same plant, but they were all taken by the Russians from Germany as war reparation and the brand name was changed. The later Kievs are developments of that rather than direct copies of anything. Ironically the western post-war Contaxes are copies, made by the Western continuity Zeiss company but re-engineered because they did not have the original equipment.
Woof! budget Ryan gosling is back!
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lmfao
@@Shrek_Has_Covid19 Ryan Gander, he's male.😄
I am amazed in the most respectful ridiculous way that this video exist. I’m going to get 3-4peeps together to watch this video on the big tv who would be pleased to know this info.
bryan goosling
Finally, I'm so happy I'm not the only one that obsesses over figuring out ever camera I see in a film.
Fellow obsessive
+1. I particularly hate those Court house step shots when none of the photographers are holding the camera like it should be held if you were going to actually shoot anything, and they seem to think it’s cool to wiggle the camera clockwise and counter clockwise. Why? It’s pathetic and always sets my teeth on edge.
But perhaps you didn't diss everything, like this arrogant moron?
hah! me too!!!!
Another one here! Or if I see a street photographer with a camera I don't recognise I can't relax until I have found it online lol
Something I think is interesting about the Kong camera is the director basically said “this is your personal camera”. Brie was encouraged to actually use it as a camera and play with it rather than use it as just a prop. There’s a whole little album of the photos she shot while on the sets.
Any idea if this is for public viewing?
She took those photos with her personal Canon AE-1 she's had since high school.
When she talked about needing a flashlight I panicked for a second.
Then realised she just needed it to set the dials 😂
For a moment I thought it was going to be one of those "trying to light a whole scene with a torch" scenarios 😂
@@TheDarkplaceI mean people do use light painting in long exposures, to light the foreground so it’s possible that’s what it’s for. Otherwise surely she could shoot it in the dark. Lens will be focused at infinity and shutter to bulb. So just turn both till they stop? Then aperture she could probably work back from min or max. Haven’t seen the film in forever though so who knows
Cracking open a flaming hot mountain dew and finding a dark corner to watch this in
9:18 That's indeed a Kiev 4a, which imitated the Contax IIa, not Leica.
Excuse my pedantry but it actually didn't "imitate" or "copy" the Contax II/III. After the conclusion of WW2, the Red Army completely dismantled the entire Zeiss Ikon Contax factory and deported all machinery, documentation, spare parts and high-ranking staff to Kiew, where the production line was rebuilt and new workers were trained by the "relocated" Germans (until about 1953).
Meaning the early Kiev RFs were literally built with Zeiss parts on Zeiss machinery by Zeiss workers.
It's not a copy but the legitimate successor of the Contax II and III. Early models had the stamped Contax nameplate filled out and re-milled with the Kiev Logo - and earlier Kievs (pre plastic self timer lever) are definitely comperable in quality to Zeiss.
The Contax IIa and IIIa were actually the "copies" since West German Zeiss lost all the production eqipment and documentation (hence why they redesigned it quite a bit).
Source - Hans-Jürgen Kuć; "Auf den Spuren der Contax" Vol. 1 & 2.
Contax III actually. I have a Kiev 4k and the light meter works fine (the long life because the door on the light detector stops it from wearing out so fast I guess). Sadly the range finder is completely out of whack and realigning is a nightmare strip down job
Yes! Great camera when they work. I use them along side my Leicas.
It is rather Contax III - original or Kiev version. Look on rangefineder window. Is bigger than that in IIa model. By the way - this line of Kievs are de facto Contaxes becouse soviets took out of Germany the entire factory (all mashines, designs etc.) after WWII.
As indeed it indicates on the video 🙂
The best and most accurate depiction of a film camera utilized in film/show was in the second season of The Crown (episode 4, "Beryl"). In the first scene of the episode, Antony Armstrong-Jones is shown photographing a wedding that Princess Margaret is attending, and he is using a Leica M3. What impressed me so much was that he correctly used a double-stroke film advance version, which was period-accurate for the year of the wedding. I LOVED that little detail, I am sure so few viewers caught onto it, but this nerd did. You never see the double stroke advance, but you hear it.
I did love that ep, but him taking a pic 6-inches away from the model.. guess it could turn out artsy.
@@kleanish That seems to happen a lot in movies and tv. I very often think "WTF are you shooting?"
I caught that, too
@@kleanishI think this is just a blocking issue. You can’t have the photographer several meters away from the subject AND get it nicely framed, so you have to ,cheat, it. Normal gaps between talking people are yawning chasms on screen. If you look at two people talking they are often actually uncomfortably close. I guess there’s a crew member somewhere tasked with carrying mints for the talent.
That’s a New F-1, the og F-1 cannot take that AE finder.
Yup, my thoughts exactly!
Agreed. The old F-1 has more of a Pyramid looking top.
That’s an AE Finder FN on a Canon New F-1. It allowed the user to shoot in aperture priority autoexposure. The New F-1 with the standard prism, the Eye-Level Finder FN, enabled fully manual exposure, like the original F-1 from 1971-81.
@@larrylanggard2609actually the prism gives it aperture priority, the auto winder gives it shutter priority! As a f1-n user myself it’s a funny system
fun fact the sound in the movie is correct for the sound of the camera and the wind. Whether it is the actual they recorded I don't know but thats how my F1n sounded.
Literally every single time. I pause the film, and get right up close to the screen to investigate. My wife loves it when I tell her all about the camera. She pretends that she doesn't, but I know she does really....
Uh huh….
13:00 Looks like an 85mm to me....
Fun Fact: Upon getting the job as the on-set still photographer for Apocalypse Now, Chas Gerretsen upgraded his kit of Nikon Fs to F2s, then sold the Fs to the production so they were the cameras used but Dennis Hopper in the movie.
The other fun Apocolypse Now fact is that Hooper's character was allegedly based on Sean Flynn, an Australian photojournalist who went missing in Cambodia during the war, with maybe a bit of Tim Page thrown in for good measure.
Francis Ford Coppola actually asked Chas to give him the camera's. Chas was then told to fly to (I belief) HongKong to buy himself some new gear. All payed for by the studio ofcourse (they were spending insane amounts on set). I recently saw him at a talk in Groningen promoting a new documentary + exhibition about him. Really fascinating.
fun fact: i dont care
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Hopper's character in Apocalypse Now has the 4 cameras because notice they all have different length lenses. He doesn't want to be bothered with swapping them. Maybe in the jungle environment he is worried about dirt or rain or whatever.
Nobody painted out the Nikon logo on the F3, it's clearly taped off on the front.
Also fun fact, the cameras Dennis Hopper has are actual Vietnam veterans, they were purchased from Chas Gerretsen who was a war photographer, and was connected to the production as an advisor
Covering the camera name plate with black tape has always been a common practice if the film did not get sponsorship from the camera maker or local representatives. Hitchcock's "Rear Window" saw Stewart's character's Exakta VX with name plate similarly covered.
The lens they're using in Jurassic Park is the Nikon Nikkor 85mm 1.8d. One of my favorite lenses to use on my D700. Thanks for the fun video! 📸
Absolutely, super sharp, fast focus, and for some reason I feel I'm getting more light out of this 1.8 lens compared to some 1.4 lenses.
@@shmvon I feel like it's because it doesn't have a ton of vignetting. So it seems like you're getting more light or something.. idk but I do agree with you lol. I'll usually use that lens with like -/7 of a stop to underexpose a little. I do that if I wanna try to get a certain look IN camera.
The F5 shutter is so a quick *cha-kunk* and you can feel the camera torque to the side. It's insane.
We need more of this. Next film: Ferrari by Michael Mann. So many scenes with press photographers who have clearly no idea what they’re doing. Looking at the back of their film cameras like it’s a phone.
Fun (boring) fact: Dennis Hopper's character in Apocolypse Now is partly inspired by real life photojournalist Tim Page, who died recently. His autobiography 'Page After Page' is a fantastic read and a cool perspective on the Vietnam war from a photographer's POV - albeit an absolutely mental photographer who did all kinds of psychedelics and got shot/blown up several times and survived. IIRC he did carry several camera bodies in the field at once, usually at least a Nikon F and a Leica M3. There's a part in the book where he's on a US Navy patrol boat that gets strafed in a friendly fire incident - he ended up floating badly burned in the South China sea, and he laments in the book that his Leica got lost and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Cool guy.
I thought carrying multiple cameras was (and still is) pretty normal for photojournalists.
Tim spent the last couple of decades of his life in my home town, Brisbane. He taught photojournalism at Griffith Uni in Brisbane and he'd pop up at exhibitions and other events and was a really interesting character and a really lovely guy. He'll be missed.
@@williamlaslback in the eighties when I was working for the British papers we’d generally carry three. A popular combo was a couple of SLRs and an M series Leica. Depending on the assignment it would be (for me) a 50 and either an 85 or 135 on the Canons and a 35 on the Leica.
Met him at a presentation and signed my copy of that autobiography. Vale Tim Page, mad or heroic, what's the difference?
If you like Tim Page look up the film "Frankies House", about Page and Sean Flynn.
The Nikon lens is a 400mm 2.8 VR - that seems kinda mental as you'd have no aperture control - also that Gitzo traveller isn't what anyone would be using with a 400mm 2.8 ;)!
Definitely a Gelded lens wouldn't work with the F3. interestingly enough though it would with the F4 on Shutter priority. I occasionally use my 50mm f1.8g on my F4 in shutter priority You have to set the shutter to get the aperture you want but it does work. The F4 is such an underappreciated gem; you can use any 1959-through AFD lenses with full function (F4 has moveable metering tab), and get by with non P AFS lenses. I love my F4.
At least they chose a lens for wildlife photography and not a small prime or kit zoom...
If you have a 400mm 2.8, you don't need aperture control. Just shoot it at 2.8
@@matthewatchinson1421I used the Nikon 105 1.4 on my F3. You can't change the aperture, it's locked at 1.4, but otherwise it works fine
@@Ruud_Brouwer It's not how G lenses work: F3 still activates the aperture by pressing the lever all the way down, so you get a nice 400mm f/22. Not pressing the lever all the way down was a feature that came later. That being said, E lenses will keep the aperture wide open on older film bodies, because there is no lever to press down at all.
The reason they carried several cameras while documenting combat zones is because it would take too much time to change a lens and switching a lens in the tropics causes the rear element to fog-up. The choice of most, during the Vietnam war was 2 slrs and a rangefinder, military reporters used leicaflex and the Leica m2s (the m2 was custom made for the us armed forces), AP used Nikons, Nikon was the only SLR at the time to have high shutter speeds, often these were also mounted remotely and fired with a cable release, another reason for carrying multiple cameras. More recently in Iraq and Vietnam reporters carried 2 DSLRs with 2 telephoto lenses. Love the video!
The F was not the only SLR with high shutter speeds. Its shutter went to 1/1000 sec. That was the top speed on every 35mm SLR at that time, except for a few budget models. Pentax, Yashica, Canon, Minolta, etc., all had 1/1000 shutter speeds. Perhaps you meant high speed film transport, i.e. motor drive?
I hope you do more of these! I always enjoying trying to ID cameras in movies and tv shows, so this was really fun. Your knowledge and dry commentary are perfect for this format 👏🏻
The shutter sound of the F is 100% accurate.
Old time photographer here. I often had at least two cameras on me (both TLR and 35mm) mostly in order to have a couple of ISO choices on hand. Back in the 60's, using Speed Graphic's it was easy to have backs ready with both fast and slow film, but TLR and 35mm didn't have changeable backs, so required more than one camera to have fast and slow available at all times. It was a hangover from sheet film days, and even today I still do it with film.
Walter Mitty is the movie which brought me to film photography 💫
such an underrated movie
awesome movie
The F-1 peter parker is using is the New F-! Which has a hot shoe on top of it's AE finder. Also we definitely need a part 2 please
The husband in Lost in Translation has a bunch of Pentax 6x7 cameras, with the wooden grip. I forget which versions he had. There are more cameras throughout it as well iirc. Part 2!
Surprised that movie wasn't mentioned here...
Good memory! And my recollection is that he does a lot of lens swapping and packing.
Lock n Loll
I think Dennis Hoppers representation is the best. There are plenty of photos of people like Larry Burrows and Tim Page with 3 or more cameras around their neck. I always thought it was to not have to change lenses but maybe different film stocks make sense too. Definitely sounds like a Nikon f
I used to carry 3 or 4 Nikons back in the day. Wasn't just for lens variety, although zooms were so slow and not sharp we did use primes almost exclusively. I had to cover the same events with color slide for presentation, color print for distribution, B&W for quick process and publication, and a high-speed version of any of them for action in impossible lighting. With digital, I can now cover all of the above with one body and a good fast zoom.
The Kiev 4 is actually an exact copy of the Contax II made in the 30s. They were identical because the Contax/Ikon plant in Germany was relocated to Kiev after the Second World War as reparations.
Not trying to sound a pedant but the real exact copy/continuation/spinoff of the Contax 2 and 3 were the Kiev 2 and 3. The 4 series made economies, and later combined metered and unmetered versions under the number 4 with various suffixes. Kiev numbering is weird.
@@philwoodall9023 Kiev 4 has the light meter, the 4A doesn't ;-)
Yes I agree 😊, what I was trying to say is that whilst the Kiev 2 and 3 mirrored the Contax numbering for unmetered and metered bodies, afterwards everything was a Kiev 4 of some sort, either metered (4 and 4m) or unmetered (4a and 4am). It’s not really clear to me why the naming system changed unless it was to somehow make them seem more modern than the post-war Contax IIa/IIIa by giving them a higher number; but that is just a guess.
That F3/T is freaking gorgeous. Just stunning.
Another great film for photography and cameras is The Killing Fields with John Malkovich playing the photo journalist in Cambodia with a bunch of Nikon Fs around his neck. The scene where they have to develop a passport photo for their interpreter friend using out of date chemicals is one of the most intense I've seen.
Great selections! Would love to see these for round two:
1. The Master
2. Persona
3. Almost Famous
4. Lost in Translation
5. Jaws
Great choices !
I'd like to had Jennifer Conelly's rangefinder in Blood Diamond and Nick Nolte's classic SLR in Underfire
Been a fan for years and I’m glad you are making the videos that no one else is making. There’s plenty of film CZcamsrs out there but this is different than anyone else is doing. Glad you are posting more lately. Keep at it and you will be just fine. Thank you for being a real film nerd talking like a real nerd to us. Keep making stuff like this man. You are absolutely on fire. Good job
I agree!
For vintage camera lovers, I recommend watching Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up". David Hemmings plays a photographer in the Swinging Sixties in London, using all kinds of Nikons, Rolleis...,
can't forget the Hasselblad 500C/M with the 80mm f/2.8 and the rapid winding crank on a tripod!
My favorite film!
Fun video. I’d be interested in more of them. Bonus: In Walter Mitty, Sean Penn has a Leica in the picture of him at Walter’s work and he has “F5” written on his field itinerary. Presumably, a Nikon F5 was his intended choice for shooting a volcano while strapped to the top of a plane. Solid choice.
i used a Canon F-1 in 1972 when i was an Army photographer...a beautiful piece of kit...much easier to use than my personal Nikon Ftn. Very quiet for a focal plane camera.
The Bang Bang Club would be another great movie for this video format!
One great film camera movie was The Road to Perdition. Jude Law plays a crimescene photographer. He uses a 4x5 Graflex, and we get to see him setting up a shot. We see it on the ground glass back ofbthe camera which is on a tripod. We get to see the scene inverted and reversed as it actually would be on the ground glass, a nice touch for authenticity. We also get to see him load a Zeiss folding camera, probably an Ikonta, while casually talking with another character. It appears as if he is used to loading the camera since he does it while talking, and seems like he actually knows what he's doing.
The Spider-Man camera is the new f-1 for sure! I bought the og one as my very first camera back in October and this channel has been on repeat in my apartment ever since. Makes youtube premium all the more worth it. Anyways, I can’t believe Tom used an F-1, those babies ran for a couple grand back in the day and he was in high school. What a baller
It's always with a capital N for the New F-1 from 1981. Even Google knows that the capital letter matters to differentiate from the revision f-1n.
Dennis Hopper was decoraded with these Nikon F’s by Dutch photo journalist Chas Gerretsen. Look him up. He had a career in both journalism as in working on cinema filmsets like Apocalypse Now. Hence he got his own camera hung on Hoppers neck.
Really enjoyed this one! Thanks for putting it together.
As someone who owns a lottt of Nikon F, I'm about 80% sure that's the correct shutter sound, but man Apocalypse now is such an amazing movie.
Those Vietnam wartime photographers all use a wide selection of cameras, but I've noticed the Nikon F and the Leica M4 types were the ones that were used the most. I've also seen photos of other photographers using a Nikon SP, A Leica M2 with and without a visoflex, A Hasselblad 500 series, even a Canonet, and the craziest one I saw was a photo of a photographer using a Contarex Super.
But even with the Nikon F, I've noticed some wild on the field customization, like a photographer was using one NikonF that he Panda-ed, with a cold shoe bolted onto the top. What a wild time for cameras it was.
That F3 is paired with a 400mm f2.8 G VR lens which can't be used on the F3 at all because it cant control the aperture. It will always stop down to the smallest like f22 or something no matter what you do.
my thought exactly, there are some g-lenses with manual aperture rings but the 400mm f/2.8 definitely wasnt one of them
Isn't it stuck in wide open? That happens to my G and E lenses when I put them on my D80 or F90x
@@TobbeLXXII G lense get stopped down, E lenses are wide open.
@@goodbyetolight 400 2.8D has an iris ring. I have one to sell :)
@@SprocketHoles Cool I must have only tried E lenses on these cameras... Although I do trust you I'm still gonna try for myself. At least it's easier to remember that way.
Minamata. Excellent movie with film photography as one of the main characters. You are welcome for the tears.
Bill Murray's camera in Ghostbusters, awesome!
Under fire, great movie. Nick Nolte.
Blow up. 1960's classic.
One hour photo, Robin Williams
By the way the 80's video, Freeze Frame by J. Giles band absolutely made me buy a motor drive. :-)
Under fire was great
a fun episode (not the usual), bro! keep making videos. been subbed for a couple years now, and i am happy you’ve kept growing!
AWESOME! I always wonder about this things when I see a character using a camera. Thank you for this I love it!
You missed the most amazin film camera szene ever made. The famous Leica scene where the saleswoman in the camera store is charmed by a Leica M7 ! Scotty doesn't know. :D
"the most amazing film camera scene - Leica" - Another one is when Donald Draper (Mad Men) gave a brand new in-the-box, Leica M2 to a new client...
When I watched Apocalypse Now and saw Dennis Hopper's character, all I could ask was, "Where is he getting his film and where is it getting developed?" He's a "photojournalist" who defected to Kurtz and they're in the heart of the jungle in the middle of a warzone: they're not getting supply drops and it's not like he can just bebop down to a film lab in Ho Chi Minh City. Part of me wonders if he was even taking photos at all, maybe he was a journalist, joined the cult, has since exhausted his supply, but thinks his cameras are still loaded. He could have a few ammo crates full of film and I'm just overthinking it, but the rate at which he shoots and that he's got four cameras on him at all times, I'd be shocked if he had any left.
yes over thinking, it's a movie :)
He could develop his own film, wouldn't need to travel to a lab.
@@c.r.parish5908 and where does he get the chemicals?
I’m totally geeking out to this video, as I always wonder what camera is being used when I watch movies that feature photography/photographers. ❤
Always love to see the notification pop up about a new video! Never disappoint!
May I ask you what these grey coloured sample plates are? (Top Right) They look interesting
My wife and I really enjoy and appreciate your videos! Keep up the amazing work.
Don’t doubt yourself. This video is great. Love. It.
Really growing into that ‘wealthy youtuber’ look man, suits you
Just having a laugh and a joke mate, your channel is one of my faves honestly, wishing you much deserved continued success
This video made me feel very seen. Thank you for this.
This was fun, man, I love the slightly off-axis film content. Keep it up!
Very enjoyable video. I thought it was only me that watched out for cameras in movies. I like it when I see a relatively unusual one that I also own, such as the little Rollei 35B that is used in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' by the female character.
I can't say exactly why but this is easily my favorite CZcams video Ive seen in a while!
Thanks Mr. Days! I too am trying to figure out the cameras I see in movies and television shows. I like when it is a real camera and not a mishmash or heavily modified one. Either way it’s cool to see film photography on the screen.
That was great fun. More please!
Great subject!! You did forget one very good addition: ‘No Small Affair’
The greatest camera scene of all time has to be the guy with the Pentax SFX photographing Arnie get thrown through a wall of a shopping mall by Robert Patrick at the blistering 2.5 frames per second that the Pentax can fire off.
I liked following up the cameras and lenses shown in the Hitchcock movie ‘Rear Window’ with James Stewart in.
Will we get to see a vid about your trip to Andalusia soon? And the mysterious photo book! Love your work!
this was fun! you should watch Carol and analyze the way Therese does film photography in that movie. she takes shots and develops them herself in a darkroom. it’s a prominent part of the movie.
The F3T works with the lense depicted: It's an Electronic diaphragm lense, therefore it will only shoot wide open. Still works. Manual focus only.
D lenses are AF and have iris rings. But if the d lens era.. you binned the f3 and had a f4 .. so its wrong in the film
more of this please & thank you
Love the video, great info and entertainment
Love it. The Argus C3 was used in the classic "Philadelphia Story" (Hepburn, J Stewart, C Grant, 1941). I have one, totally fun. It was also in a H. Potter film.
The Argus C3 was also used by Gwyneth Paltrow in the otherwise dire "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow".
This was great, film photographer reacts. Love it.
A brilliantly shot movie that includes film photography is The Return dir. Andre Zvyaginstsev
Film isn’t featured prominently in the plot but it does show pictures taken throughout the film just before the credits
Best line. The camera was made out of titanium to make the camera look more TIGHTanium. (Forgive the paraphrasing). Great video. Just subscribed. ✌️
Excelente video !!!👏👏👏👏 Desde Granada -España.Otro video!!!!
cant wait to watch this
I'm collecting film camera scenes in movies too. The father in "ordinary people" (1980) used an Olympus film camera and its kinda refreshing because Nikon and leica camera everywhere
I’ve read so many Vietnam War Nikon F stories where the camera is effectively obliterated but somehow still works
this video was actually really cool. Do more!
i've got a nikon f3 and bought a replacement viewfinder for it which is a black titanium hp version. I also have a motor drive for it and i have an 80-200 f2.8 AF-D lens that i use sometimes on it.
There was another camera used by a character in the Harry Potter movies. It was the Argus C-3 Match-Matic.
The Argus C-3 was kind of a weird camera in that it was originally designed in 1939 and they never really changed it.
Every time Argus tried to discontinue it, sales went up so they kept it going into the mid 1960s with only minor changes.
It has a really old-school "scientific" vibe, especially in the black leatherette finish (the Match-Matic had a propitiatory light meter and tan coloured leatherette).
I have one or two Argus C-3s (or three or four or...LOOK I can stop any time I want!) It's not a bad rangefinder 35mm. You could even get different lenses (although they used an Argus-only mount). It was never considered a commercial photographer's camera, more a consumer grade, but you can get good results when it's set up properly.
That was more fun than it should have been.
Thank you for this very interesting video. My favorite film camera moment is in Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up, which is about a photographer who inadvertently photographs a murder, the photographer uses one of the original Nikon F''s, which would have been current with the making of that film. As for war photographer's, I think the primary reason for the multiple camera approach was focal length of lenses, since there was often no time to switch lenses when things started popping off and zoom lenses either did not exist or were rare at the time.
Also, zooms had a small maximum aperture which made them very hard to focus accurately or shoot action in low light.
For the record .. The Lens on the 6x7 was the 75mm f4 and the sound that the camera made was supposed to mimic old school one time use flash bulbs. Old school flash bulbs made a very distinct sound that you'll never forget ...clink,pop, sizzle ..
My family just grins when I watch a movie. If I am not trying to figure out the camera, I'm geeking over the firearms... its always something. We notice what we have interest in and or know a little about because it is part of the fun. I was stoked when I saw you'd dropped a new video! cool.
please do more of these i loved it
Wonderful vid. I have quite a few of these including the Nikons, Graflex and Kiev. The Kiev 4 has a wonderful Jupiter 50mm/2.0 lens. Takes beautiful pictures. The Graflex Speeds and Crowns are like shooting cameras made for the SteamPunk crowd. Difficult but rewarding. Any good Film Noir must include a press or police photographer with a Graflex changing the cut film back. Super cool. Again, thanks for the video. One film of particular significance that should be covered is Hitchcock's Rear Window - with an Ihagee Exacta. Very exotic. Thanks again!
"watching a movie with your partner..." Let me stop you right there.
Haha, right!
Im an engineering student taking a nuclear engineering course. I have some 35mm takumars I brought into class to measure the radiation and it was giving off 1.60 microseiverts per hour, if I remember correctly.
And the background was what?
@@philwoodall9023 .15 microseiverts per hour. It would fluctuate between .10 and .15. We measured some americium in a smoke detector and got up to .45. The lenses made the detector beep and vibrate as if there was danger, but my understanding is that the thorium is giving off alpha particles, which are not particularly dangerous due to the fact that they are easily blocked by skin.
Kodak made some radioactive lenses in the early '50's. I found a Geiger counter in my cellar after my dad passed, (he was a physicist for Kodak), and I've been meaning to get it working and find out the output of some of my old Retinas and Signets.
@@philwoodall9023 background was between 0.10 to .20 microseiverts.
@@adriangonzalez-camps3120 Thanks, just wondering 😊
Here's a content idea: Large format + Baxter
Need more. Need it 🙏
I enjoyed this.. thanks dude. I had an F5 It was lovely.
At 07:37
NEVER put a lens in the sun.
It will remove the brown color, but may also damage the lens. The heat is not good for the adhesives. The oil and grease may run and make the aperture blades sticky.
Use a small LED desk light from Ikea instead. Place the lens on a mirror and position the LED light just above. Turn the lens over once in a while. Works great.
My man, when you do the invariable part II of this series, might I suggest this masterpiece of a film called Nomads (1986). Whole experience will change your life…
Please do more of these ❤
This video was wonderful! I’d love to see a piece on Charles Bronson’s camera setup (he had a crazy quasar attachment) from 1972’s “The Mechanic”
Great video. Very fun!
Sigourney Weaver uses also a Nikon F5 in „Gorillas in the Mist“.
Great video, Taxi Driver has a few... in the scene with the Secret Service dude there's a Nikon F2 with the big metering head and maybe a Nikon F as well...
Wow. Great YT-discovery, just clicked the button! Interesting approach, fine presentation! Greets from Munich. (Now NIKON, with film: MINOLTA)
Love this topic!
Very interesting guesses on all those. Was never into gear that much back in the day. Back in the late 70’s-80’s all I had was an Olympus OM-1. Nice compact camera.
walter mitty is one of my favorite movies. the scenery, the soundtrack... its just a good watch. The rewind on the nikon is pretty loud, at least on my f4 it is.
Man i dont know what the analytics will tell you regarding this videos performance, but never you mind that, this was an amazing video. So friggin niche, so friggin cool! love it!
Thanks you for video! Very warm and cute!)