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Gear Talk => Camera Talk => Topic started by: RonVol on March 25, 2016, 22:20:44

Title: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on March 25, 2016, 22:20:44
Jimmy Page, guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin, and his Nikon F.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on March 25, 2016, 22:24:21
LOOK AT THE CAMERA....................LOOK AT THE CAMERA!

A lovely Nikon F on the front cover of a naturists magazine.
I hope this isn't too rude for members of the forum  ;)
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Erik Lund on March 26, 2016, 00:05:45
you can post nudes here no problem ;)

What a fun shot! ;) and again a flipped image,,,
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Anthony on March 26, 2016, 00:30:31
I wonder what she was shooting.
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Post by: RonVol on March 26, 2016, 00:54:14

What a fun shot! ;) and again a flipped image,,,

Fixed! :)
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Post by: Hugh_3170 on March 26, 2016, 01:01:15
Drats - I got all excited - for I thought that we had at long last  tracked down an image of the super ultra rare left hand version of the Nikon F!

Bloody photoshop!
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Hugh_3170 on March 26, 2016, 01:03:37
Come to think of it, have left handed versions of camera bodies ever been made?

I know of a few bodies whose film advance levers have been on the bottom of the body, but no left hand ones that I can recall.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on March 26, 2016, 03:28:45
Wasn't one of the first Exacta cameras left-handed? The version with a built-in cutting knife in case you had cut off a piece of film to have it developed immediately.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on March 26, 2016, 03:47:04
Come to think of it, have left handed versions of camera bodies ever been made?

I know of a few bodies whose film advance levers have been on the bottom of the body, but no left hand ones that I can recall.

See here  :P - http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,3161.0.html
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Post by: Frank Fremerey on March 26, 2016, 06:26:08
A real beauty. .... The camera.
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Post by: Hugh_3170 on March 26, 2016, 06:52:44
Bjørn, you are right. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kine_Exakta_Typ_3_Bj._1938_-2745.jpg#/media/File:Kine_Exakta_Typ_3_Bj._1938_-2745.jpg

This example has its film advance lever on top of the body.  The one I was thinking of had its advance lever on the bottom; an Alpha maybe.  I will keep looking.


Wasn't one of the first Exacta cameras left-handed? The version with a built-in cutting knife in case you had cut off a piece of film to have it developed immediately.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Erik Lund on March 27, 2016, 21:57:13
Mamiya ZE-X
http://herron.50megs.com/ZE.htm (http://herron.50megs.com/ZE.htm)
Now thats left hand
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Vilhelm on March 27, 2016, 22:02:28
Bert Stern's photoseries of Marilyn Monroe and a Nikon F
http://www.shootingfilm.net/2012/10/marilyn-monroe-with-nikon-f-by-bert.html (http://www.shootingfilm.net/2012/10/marilyn-monroe-with-nikon-f-by-bert.html)

+ about as many photos of celebrities sporting a Nikon F as you can imagine... it seems the Nikon marketing of its time was focusing on this or then just about everyone was using a Nikon F (both likely true)

https://www.google.com/search?q=famous+nikon+f (https://www.google.com/search?q=famous+nikon+f)
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Post by: Vilhelm on March 27, 2016, 22:06:50
Hahaha Google came up with these, that's a Nikon F and a rangefinder S

NSFW
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105925422 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105925422)

]https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105148227] (https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105148227)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105925202 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/marc-torres/2105925202)
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Erik Lund on March 27, 2016, 22:12:57
Bert Stern's photoseries of Marilyn Monroe and a Nikon F
http://www.shootingfilm.net/2012/10/marilyn-monroe-with-nikon-f-by-bert.html (http://www.shootingfilm.net/2012/10/marilyn-monroe-with-nikon-f-by-bert.html)
....
Thank's! ;)

That is how you hold onto a Nikon F! She is an all time Babe  ;D I like
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Post by: abergon on March 29, 2016, 22:47:17
Drats - I got all excited - for I thought that we had at long last  tracked down an image of the super ultra rare left hand version of the Nikon F!

Bloody photoshop!

Right or left handed, I'll try that body anytime  :)

Albert
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Post by: RonVol on April 09, 2016, 00:26:12
American singer Bob Seger with a Nikon F and Soligor 28mm f/2.8.
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Post by: David H. Hartman on April 17, 2016, 11:29:29
(https://danwoog.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/highway-61-revisited.jpg)

I'm not sure who the famous person in the background with the Nikon SP might be. Anyone?

I should have bought an SP back in the early '70s. They look pretty cool.

Dave
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on April 17, 2016, 13:22:15

I'm not sure who the famous person in the background with the Nikon SP might be. Anyone?

I should have bought an SP back in the early '70s. They look pretty cool.

Dave

Well spotted Dave!
Any idea what the Nikkor is?
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: David H. Hartman on April 19, 2016, 12:59:40
Ron,

I don't know Nikon rangefinders well and lenses even less. I must have spotted the SP in 1970, the year I bought my first real camera, a Nikkormat FTn. I remember there were many Nikon rangefinder camera under the glass in used departments. I liked the look of the SP then and now. I haven't a clue why I didn't buy one.

Dave
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Post by: richardHaw on April 19, 2016, 13:29:40
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/8f/41/16/8f4116a2385376924741774238fb19e9.jpg)
always loved michael jackson up till thriller :o :o :o
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on April 19, 2016, 13:43:50
Well spotted Dave!
Any idea what the Nikkor is?

Most likely a Nikkor-S 5 cm f/1.4 with hood. Could of course be the more common (and less expensive) Nikkor 5 cm f/2, but the size of the thing leans towards the f/1.4. Plus, who would want to by the top-of-the-line camera and put inexpensive lenses on it? (well, has happened before and likely will do so also in the future).
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on May 19, 2016, 00:58:43
Publicity shot of English actor Christian Bale holding a Nikon FA with motorised winder.
Can't make-out what the Nikkor is.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: MFloyd on May 19, 2016, 10:40:59
Seems to be an 85mm f/2 with the HS-10 snap-on lens hood.
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on May 19, 2016, 11:24:33
And the camera looks more like an FA.
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on May 19, 2016, 11:39:21
And the camera looks more like an FA.

D'oh! Thanks for pointing out my mistake Bjørn  :-\
Title: Re: Famous People/Celebrities & Their Nikons/Nikkors
Post by: RonVol on June 05, 2016, 11:39:16
RIP King of the World.

Caption reads: Ali feigns shock while supposedly spying on the Zaire training camp of opponent George Foreman in the Leon Gast film 'When We Were Kings'. Photo by Howard L. Bingham.