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Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 266
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 03:03 pm: | 
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Ok, folks, can you name all the twin lens reflex cameras by brand and model shown on the logo of this website?
And, out of curiousity, how many of you can name the brand and model of any camera you might see a photog. carrying from 20 feet away? Or whatever camera might show up in an old movie? |
Mndean
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Username: Mndean
Post Number: 191
Registered: 08-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 08:11 pm: |
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Cameras in old movies I can name - if it's a news photog using it, it's generally a Graflex, but I have seen Leicas and an Argus C-3. I watched a film today that had an old box Brownie. |
David_nebenzahl
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Username: David_nebenzahl
Post Number: 150
Registered: 12-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 08:35 pm: |
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OK, I'll play. "Eye of the Needle", 1981; Donald Sutherland uses a Leica (III?) to photograph the phony aircraft the Brits used as a decoy for D-Day. |
Hanskerensky
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Username: Hanskerensky
Post Number: 24
Registered: 05-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 01:28 am: |
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Well Tom, just had a look at the Logo which is ofcourse very small. Had it downloaded and enlarged a bit but there is just too little pixel-data. So, unfortunatly no, i cannot recognise them expect for the middle one which is (ofcourse) a Rolleiflex (But which model ?)and the one standing to its right must be a Yashica (Model 12 ?).
On given distance recognising can be hard. When i walk around with my Zeiss Ikoflex 1b people, even professional photographers,ask me about my Rollei ;-) |
Tom_cheshire
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Username: Tom_cheshire
Post Number: 269
Registered: 04-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 05:48 pm: |
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Ok, guess I'm the only nutcase around here who has the experience and zaniness to do it so here goes:
Starting from the left the first one is a Rolleicord IV, next a Flexaret (4 or 5?), center is a Rolleiflex, next is a Yashica-Mat 124 and last is a Yashica LM. I'm willing to conceed the Rolleicord could also potentially be a Minolta Autocord.
Now, about cameras in movies. Oh, there are so many but most recently I was amazed by the Argus C3 in "Sky Captain and the World of the Future". The "exposure counter" was a rectangular LCD on top clearly next to the real counter. Not to mention the amazement that a reporter was using a C3 and had no film except the roll in the camera. And, lastly, the hero tells his reporter girlfriend she wasted her last exposure because the "lenscap was on" when there was no lenscap and, even if there had been, all she had to do was recock the shutter and reshoot (after removing the cap, of course). |
Jack_croswell
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Username: Jack_croswell
Post Number: 10
Registered: 02-2010
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 01:26 pm: |
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Very nice Tom! |
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