Vintage Camera Sightings

[ksmattfish]

I was watching TV news coverage a few days ago of congressional hearings on whichever political scandal de jour we're on this week, and I spotted photojournalist David Burnett and his Speed Graphic crouched down and shooting.

http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=2004 Politics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/040226.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/t...c5650d56297840&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/dis_burnett.html

http://www.asmp.org/culture/bestof2006/David_Burnett/index.php

http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/burnett/default.html

I'm inspired to do some handheld 4x5 shootin'!

 

[blackdoglab]

There's a commercial that's been on recently (can't recall the company though) that features a Speed Graphic and a Yashica tlr.

 

[montresor]

"It Should Happen to You," 1954, screenplay by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, directed by George Cukor, with the incomparable Judy Holliday, and Jack Lemmon in his first movie. Photographers with Speed Graphics with what appear to be huge Ilex shutters. You get a good look at them as they all crowd the camera for a nice POV shot. Also, Lemmon as a documentary filmmaker, with a three-lens 16mm camera in tow. No idea about the make of that one.

 

[blackdoglab]

The Fortune Cookie has Jack Lemmon being spied on with an Arriflex ( 16mm and technicolor as one charecter says).

 

[montresor]

Watching, with a very young relative, "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy" (I know, I know) -- Bud Abbott hands Lou Costello a big, folding Polaroid Model 150 to take a photograph with. Must have been very up to date in 1955!

 

[blackdoglab]

There's a twin lens reflex (I'm thinking it's a yashica, but I'll have to look more closely) in Eegah.

 

[DSLR noob]

There is the ever popular Leica M7 in Euro Trip. I don't think it's vintage, but it'll be a collectible if not already one.

 

[DRodgers]

just my 2 cents I love this thread I thought i was the only one who yells out look at the camera during a show.. I now need to keep notes of the details so i can too can post up my findings..

 

[danalec99]

http://www.asmp.org/culture/bestof2006/David_Burnett/index.php

Few more images with tech info > here

 

[usayit]

I was just watching episodes of MASH with my wife (She's a big fan). THe episode showed Hawkeye building a monument out of tongue depressors only to blow it up in front of the military press as a demonstration of the war's senseless destruction (kinda describes our current situation). The photographer for the military press was shooting with a Hasselblad.

Its interesting because 35mm negative cameras were creating quite a stir during the Korean war days. They proved to be a very practical camera in the heat of battle. From what I read, MF still remained the primary camera for military but the field coorespondants out on the battlefield started to make the switch.

 

[malkav41]

Heck, anymore when we're watching a movie, and I see a camera, my youngest groans.

 

[montresor]

Don't torture yourself by watching it, but in the made-for-TV banality "Where the Heart Is," Natallie Portman uses a Rolleicord and, later, a Rolleiflex -- CORRECTLY! What next, pigs with wings?

 

[usayit]

Brad Pitt in Spy Game was just aired yesterday. I noticed a scene of what is suppose to be Beruit shooting away with an M6 with motor. The "click" shutter sound effect in the movie doesn't sound like an M6+motor though.

Later in the movie he's shooting with some sort of Nikon.

 

[MadisonWI]

Anybody ever notice what camera Will Smith has around his neck in the intro to Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire? It also appears in the first couple episodes, I think.

It looks old, and is in a leather-ish case. I could never tell what it was, for sure ...

 

[IloveTLRs]

I was watching an episode of Cheers last night (season 1) when I saw a classic camera. Around the neck of some guy was a camera that looked like a Baldamatic. Wonder where that came from??