Film Cameras in Movies

[@grainydaysss]

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

[@dflf]

A part 2 please Jason

[@highgardentwo6977]

Try harder next time Jason >:(

[@philwoodall9023]

@@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.

[@quintonmckimm]

lulz

[@jmtubbs1639]

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.

[@SanTM]

Woof! budget Ryan gosling is back!

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

ryan goose

[@nomadicnegatives]

lmfao

[@mrstandfast2212]

@@Shrek_Has_Covid19 Ryan Gander, he's male.😄

[@jeremiahdaniels]

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.

[@mattyred3973]

bryan goosling

[@Wyattoons]

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.

[@coreymagz3145]

Any idea if this is for public viewing?

[@Flying_Basset]

She took those photos with her personal Canon AE-1 she's had since high school.

[@TheDarkplace]

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 😂

[@AnalogFilmDiary]

@@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

[@Jsoberon]

Finally, I'm so happy I'm not the only one that obsesses over figuring out ever camera I see in a film.

[@michaeldimmitt2188]

Fellow obsessive

[@andrewkendall7814]

But perhaps you didn't diss everything, like this arrogant moron?

[@ridealongwithrandy]

hah! me too!!!!

[@williamshakespeare9815]

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

[@p38arover22]

As a long time (since 1968) Pentax user, I always look for Pentax. I started with the Spotmatic.

[@Matt.Detroit]

Cracking open a flaming hot mountain dew and finding a dark corner to watch this in

[@i20010]

9:18 That's indeed a Kiev 4a, which imitated the Contax IIa, not Leica.

[@oldico5597]

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.

[@timrpbrown]

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

[@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom]

Yes! Great camera when they work. I use them along side my Leicas.

[@grzegorzkonopka88]

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.

[@philwoodall9023]

As indeed it indicates on the video 🙂

[@VladiDusil]

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.

[@kleanish]

I did love that ep, but him taking a pic 6-inches away from the model.. guess it could turn out artsy.

[@mgscheue]

@@kleanish That seems to happen a lot in movies and tv. I very often think "WTF are you shooting?"

[@mikericciuti5996]

I caught that, too

[@TheHatMusic]

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....

[@edsphotos78]

Uh huh….

[@martyzielinski1442]

13:00 Looks like an 85mm to me....

[@Obfluss.S]

That’s a New F-1, the og F-1 cannot take that AE finder.

[@qvarfoto]

Yup, my thoughts exactly!

[@classic.cameras]

Agreed. The old F-1 has more of a Pyramid looking top.

[@larrylanggard2609]

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.

[@Restorttt]

@@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

[@robertwrightphoto]

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.

[@Jsoberon]

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.

[@Geballister]

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.

[@robinheikens4976]

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.

[@_o__o_]

fun fact: i dont care

[@qtrfoil]

​@@_o__o_ Here's that attention you wanted. You're welcome.

[@_o__o_]

@@qtrfoil i farting for you

[@magarity1]

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.

[@lolkthnxbai]

I read about a few who carried two just so they could shoot color and black & white.

[@artistjoh]

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.

[@alessandrohuber4407]

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!

[@jeli3953]

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?

[@KelsomaticPDX]

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 👏🏻

[@TomMasonPhoto]

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 ;)!

[@matthewatchinson1421]

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.

[@Favk21]

At least they chose a lens for wildlife photography and not a small prime or kit zoom...

[@Ruud_Brouwer]

If you have a 400mm 2.8, you don't need aperture control. Just shoot it at 2.8

[@Ruud_Brouwer]

​@@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

[@mateuszlenik]

@@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.

[@OdinMovies]

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

[@Seele2015au]

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.

[@revaaron]

The F5 shutter is so a quick *cha-kunk* and you can feel the camera torque to the side. It's insane.

[@NickCharnas]

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 KZbinrs 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

[@grahamrichards8531]

I agree!

[@mikestanavech7858]

The shutter sound of the F is 100% accurate.

[@Wh33lsofFortune]

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! 📸

[@shmvon]

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.

[@Wh33lsofFortune]

@@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.

[@TrilweB]

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.

[@TheTenderhooligan]

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.

[@williamlasl]

I thought carrying multiple cameras was (and still is) pretty normal for photojournalists.

[@filmnerd.photography]

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.

[@ibanmayo2]

Met him at a presentation and signed my copy of that autobiography. Vale Tim Page, mad or heroic, what's the difference?

[@janw.jensen2490]

If you like Tim Page look up the film "Frankies House", about Page and Sean Flynn.

[@ubeeh]

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...,

[@eyebidder]

can't forget the Hasselblad 500C/M with the 80mm f/2.8 and the rapid winding crank on a tripod!

[@tomweis1194]

My favorite film!

[@johnpeschke7723]

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.

[@samgregg]

That F3/T is freaking gorgeous. Just stunning.

[@vivangreco1710]

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.

[@MattOsborne-MrLeicaCom]

Really enjoyed this one! Thanks for putting it together.

[@mpgnz73]

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.

[@beepboopboopbeepbeep]

"watching a movie with your partner..." Let me stop you right there.

[@MichielHeijmans]

Haha, right!

[@_Puke]

I feel like the Walter Mitty clip sums up most of the people who shoot film 😂

[@Definitely_not_Andrew_Yoshiaki]

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.

[@ZombieRofl]

Great subject!! You did forget one very good addition: ‘No Small Affair’

[@peterfelipe1125]

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.

[@philwoodall9023]

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.

[@alunchisholm481]

@@philwoodall9023 Kiev 4 has the light meter, the 4A doesn't ;-)

[@philwoodall9023]

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.

[@TheWebknecht]

Walter Mitty is the movie which brought me to film photography 💫

[@matthewtomczyk]

such an underrated movie

[@chriscard6544]

awesome movie

[@dflf]

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

[@hsiaonn]

15:30 “I’m trying to take long exposure photograph but my flashlight broke “

[@danielkophoto]

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!

[@LuigiL75]

Surprised that movie wasn't mentioned here...

[@adamaufdencamp5080]

Good memory! And my recollection is that he does a lot of lens swapping and packing.

[@directedbydon]

Lock n Loll

[@cyriton3886]

I usually have 3 SLRs on me at once but they’re always in my bag, definitely not swinging all around me smashing together.

[@NeillRobinson]

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

[@AlexMixaha]

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

[@ryablow]

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.

[@losingfocus2787]

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.

[@jameslenney]

Don’t doubt yourself. This video is great. Love. It.

[@frankief.9827]

The Bang Bang Club would be another great movie for this video format!

[@ratgirl13]

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. ❤

[@JesseSchroeder]

Great selections! Would love to see these for round two: 1. The Master 2. Persona 3. Almost Famous 4. Lost in Translation 5. Jaws

[@olivierfilhol3655]

Great choices ! I'd like to had Jennifer Conelly's rangefinder in Blood Diamond and Nick Nolte's classic SLR in Underfire

[@mikefreelandphoto]

I know I’m like two entire years late on this one but it was one of my favorites since like ever. My KZbin watchlist was bouncing around like Dennis Hopper’s Nikons until I was ready to watch it, but I knew I would get around to it and quite frankly, I think it killed. No war puns intended.📸

[@andrewwatts970]

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

[@jonnyem.8859]

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.

[@selly903]

My wife and I really enjoy and appreciate your videos! Keep up the amazing work.

[@SprocketHoles]

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.

[@goodbyetolight]

my thought exactly, there are some g-lenses with manual aperture rings but the 400mm f/2.8 definitely wasnt one of them

[@TobbeLXXII]

Isn't it stuck in wide open? That happens to my G and E lenses when I put them on my D80 or F90x

[@SprocketHoles]

@@TobbeLXXII G lense get stopped down, E lenses are wide open.

[@sammorganmoore]

@@goodbyetolight 400 2.8D has an iris ring. I have one to sell :)

[@TobbeLXXII]

@@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.

[@acesonmurray4660]

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 ..

[@GrainOnTheGo]

I’ve read so many Vietnam War Nikon F stories where the camera is effectively obliterated but somehow still works

[@matangox]

Unfortunately you missed the 2 most ironično movies with cameras in and these are Rear Window (I don't have a clue what he was using) and of course the GOAT of photography movies Blowup by Michelangelo Antonioni. He does use multiple cameras in that movie. One is a Nikon, the other I'm not sure. If you could let us know about these 2 movies, it would be great. That being said still a great video. Thanks!

[@Pastenes]

Minamata. Excellent movie with film photography as one of the main characters. You are welcome for the tears.

[@mrLabear]

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

[@mrLabear]

Well this video got recommended to me again and I was ready to make this same comment. No need lmao

[@Mennozo]

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.

[@oc2phish07]

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.

[@TheBigNegative-PhotoChannel]

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

[@y2ktube]

"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...

[@sondrejohansen48]

Man that movie ravaged Matt Damon into something scary

[@michaelcherry8952]

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.

[@actionimagesphotography]

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. :-)

[@directedbydon]

Under fire was great

[@msinsiwer]

9:06 it’s a recurring theme in the Wes Anderson movies to have Soviet tech used by the characters ever since the Vostok Amphibia diving watch in Life Aquatic. IIRC, Agat watches are used in French Dispatch, can’t remember the rest but those are a somewhat of an easter egg

[@instantcharlie1225]

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.

[@davidmascorro5636]

yes over thinking, it's a movie :)

[@c.r.parish5908]

He could develop his own film, wouldn't need to travel to a lab.

[@instantcharlie1225]

@@c.r.parish5908 and where does he get the chemicals?

[@A7Dave777]

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!

[@skaterat321]

Here's a content idea: Large format + Baxter

[@OneMonthTwoCameras]

That was more fun than it should have been.

[@botant500]

Thanks for this. So good. Also, thanks for calling out all the bs in Asteroid City. I'm reasonably sure Anderson was very involved with the choice and rebranding of the Kiev. He spends more time on production design than he does on scripts. And it shows.

[@nathanbrinson]

This is a dope change on the format we're used to. Good shit

[@frando2479]

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.

[@sammorganmoore]

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

[@phin1]

The Killing fields protagonists are photographers!! A lot to talk about with Malkovich's character alone.

[@adriangonzalez-camps3120]

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.

[@philwoodall9023]

And the background was what?

[@adriangonzalez-camps3120]

@@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.

[@jonnyem.8859]

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.

[@adriangonzalez-camps3120]

@@philwoodall9023 background was between 0.10 to .20 microseiverts.

[@philwoodall9023]

@@adriangonzalez-camps3120 Thanks, just wondering 😊

[@charleyfolkes]

That IS a fat-ass-glass on that Nikon F5! You should do another episode, ‘shot on Film’ about movies by, for example Wes Anderson and Tarantino, what kind of film movie cameras still used, and what kind of dope deals they shook hands over with Kodak to keep them making movie film !!!

[@revaaron]

the Keiv4 is an awesome camera. I got one for $40 and a jupiter-8

[@revaaron]

Keiv4M has the meter.

[@philwoodall9023]

The numbering on Kievs is weird. Yes the 4m had a meter but the 4m was the later version with the non detachable spool and black dials on the top (with meter 4m, without 4am). The one shown in the film is the 4 (the meterless version of this is the is the 4a). Whilst I have owned most (very sad) I admit to checking in my copy of Jean Loup Princelle's "The authentic guide to Russian an Soviet cameras" which is an amazing book (available in French and English) covering almost every Soviet camera and lens including prototypes. Princelle is an absolute expert in the field and frequents French camera fairs wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes!

[@revaaron]

@@philwoodall9023 you are correct and I thought I had a Kiev 4m, but looking at the camera, it's a Kiev 4. Oddly, it's serial number says 1967.

[@philwoodall9023]

⁠@@revaaron According to Princelle the Kiev 4 was made from 1957-1974 so that fits.

[@kevinmarkham6385]

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.

[@caleidoo]

5:04 lol that can't possibly be a 100-300mm lens. The length, the size of the front element.... and just the fact that 300mm is way too short to do most wild life shots. I think it's probably a 500mm F4 or at least a 400mm F2.8. Either way, a AF-S G lens. They don't jam with that oldtimer F3 of course, they have no aperture ring. So it's at F16 or F22 all the time probably, I don't know, never place a AF-S lens on my F3. But it's quite ridiculous to produce a scene like this with two props that won't work together and have decades between them.

[@willdegraw]

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!

[@mikowaj]

I think Kiev is a copy of an old Contax, no?

[@Samyalq]

Yep, Contax III

[@dlyon9673]

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.

[@jonnyem.8859]

Also, zooms had a small maximum aperture which made them very hard to focus accurately or shoot action in low light.

[@tomweis1194]

More Nikon F5 trivia. The F5 has 24 custom functions. Custom function #8 "Automatic film advance to frame #1 when you close camera back", and CF #12 "Film advance stop: Set to #35 or #36". Why stop at frame #35? Because many plastic pages that hold 35mm film are set up with 7 film strip rows of 5 frames each (35 shots total), and that page of film fits nicely on 8x10 photo paper when making a contact sheet. Even though film rewind speed was like 3 seconds when motorized, the F5 has a manual rewind crank so film could be rewound by hand if A) the batteries died, B) the film is so cold it may be brittle and prone to tearing when rewound at high speed, and C) conditions are cold and dry enough to cause static charge to fog the film when rewound at high speed. It's a beastly camera and I owned one, but honestly I preferred the F4s bodies.

[@olliecatmax]

the twin lens one in oppenheimer is a yashica

[@ginatsui4923]

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

[@mbsevans]

Wow! So much for doing your research! The first camera is the 3rd gen F-1 or what Canon called the New F-1, not the F-1 or F-1n which were the predecessors. It’s quite clear he is using a New F-1, because it is very distinctive with the ambient light windows on the prism and the top plate. You can also clearly see the AE viewfinder ledge that hangs over the shutter dial. And the lens is very likely a Canon 35-70 f4 lens.

[@henrylapointe2442]

I can't say exactly why but this is easily my favorite KZbin video Ive seen in a while!

[@Bob-Horse]

I liked following up the cameras and lenses shown in the Hitchcock movie ‘Rear Window’ with James Stewart in.

[@weekender5850]

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…

[@DomDelore]

The flash in the HP looks like a classic Metz Flash you'd have for a medium format outfit. You could photograph in a dark church with one of those and get perfectly lit photos

[@dennisvanleent1]

Pretty dang shure the lens at 13:25 ish is the 85mm f/1.8 AF-D. I own one of those baby's, lovely piece of glass, and not worth overspending for the 1.4 IMO. And these kind of video's are quite cool, I enjoyed it. Wouldn't mind seeing more of this.

[@juergen-schanz]

Sigourney Weaver uses also a Nikon F5 in „Gorillas in the Mist“.

[@Kwright304]

Hi there F-1 enthusiast here, there are 3 versions and that’s the 3rd, you can tell the third from the first 2 because the hot shoe is on the prism, the first 2 didn’t have a hot shoe, it had an attachment that went over the film rewind knob

[@Kwright304]

On the original the prism was pointed and the second version is the same but is has a shorter throw and the advance lever has a plastic piece. The original one is completely made of brass.

[@pedrova8058]

13:20 that's the AF 85 f1,8 The 1,4 version is a kind of cool blend between sonnar and gauss type

[@Yara_-ot2ow]

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.

[@mrfoxaaron]

Best line. The camera was made out of titanium to make the camera look more TIGHTanium. (Forgive the paraphrasing). Great video. Just subscribed. ✌️

[@axelfoley133]

The camera that i remember most was used by Peter's teacher in Far From Home. Teacher from a supposedly poor Brooklyn school, shooting with a modern Leica. As soon as i saw it, i laughed because i doubt he gets paid anywhere near enough to afford one. And then i cringed when he tried to set it up for a selfie and dropped it in the water. Cool, there's $10k gone.

[@AndrewWatson64]

I only ever consider Rear Window when thinking of film cameras in movies, surely the most iconic film and the camera is central to the film. I'd like to know what camera it is.

[@A7Dave777]

See other comments. Ihagee Exacta.

[@reinasgallery]

Peter Parker is using the New F-1 in spiderman, the viewfinders are also pretty distinct between the two models (there’s a little window at the top to let light in for the meter in the new one and it’s also less boxy/square-like in design). I own one and love it :)

[@wowsuchname1939]

Enjoyed this, always find myself guilty of camera spotting in films! The M3 in Kong, if I remember correctly, the camera was actually functional on set and Brie took pictures throughout the filming. Also, Don Mcullin mention! I met him once, super surreal experience, really chilled bloke. Wasn’t sure what to expect but he was so lovely.

[@MDMiller60]

Interesting take on cameras used in movie scenes. I am a fanatic critic of the use of firearms and military uniforms in movies, everything from the cocking or racking sounds, the grip, the number of shots (particularly in older movies), safety handling, improper uniforms, and much more. I need to write a book or make a video. Wudda, shudda, cudder.

[@markgoostree6334]

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.

[@tonyharding6870]

The camera that stopped the bullet was owned by Don McCullin, War Photographer (although he hates that title). I've had the good fortune to meet him a couple of times and he's such a lovely man.

[@ninamarie177]

Leicas have been appearing in Korean dramas a lot over the past few years, both analog and digital. Even everyone’s favourite love interest the North Korean soldier in Crash Landing On You has one, though he shoots digital. My favourite use of them for plot purposes is in Lovestruck in the City, there the female lead has a holiday romance under a false identity but once she realises the guy knows her friend back home she ghosts him after he had to rush back home for an emergency and “accidentally” keeps his cameras and his undeveloped rolls of film so that he doesn’t have a foto to show their mutual friend. Don’t worry though, they later reunite and she returns the cameras after explaining everything, happy endings all around (even for the NK soldier in the other show).

[@meghabhatia534]

Love both of the k-dramas! Have you seen the latest one called "Welcome to Samdalri"? The main female protagonist is a photographer in the story. edit: Also "Hometown Cha Cha" the main lead used a film camera throughout the story.

[@ninamarie177]

@@meghabhatia534 I loved both of those shows too, Samdal starting her photography career with disposables and then going back to them was really cute. And Du-sik saving that other guy from falling in the ocean by grabbing his camera was really funny. I should go back and see if I can identify which cameras they had.

[@meghabhatia534]

@@ninamarie177 wow! happy to find such a fan of kdramas here in the comment sections accidentally. Take care. Fighting!

[@MindfullyBased]

The 4 cameras for Dennis Hopper is just the evolution of the character around Hopper to match his craziness. He started out as another special forces guy under Kurtz, but he didn't fit. So they made him a photographer. Hopper had some quirks that Coppola hated, like taping film cans to his straps. So the 4 cameras is really just supposed to come across crazy because it matches that characters vibe.

[@Ivanmckt]

You don't even have to look that deeply at the auto settings on the F-1, you can just tell which model it is by the top prism, which isn't compatible with the original model. It's definitely the new F-1