Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies

[JBPhoto]

In the 1987 movie 'The Fourth Protocol', the character played by Michael Caine is using a Nikon F3 with a lens/bellows arrangement.

LOL. He really isn't looking out the window, there is a dust speck on the curtain that needs scrutiny.

[John Geerts]

Lets not forget the Scandinavian Cinema.  'The Passion of Anna' (En Passion, 1969) a Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman with Sven Nykvist as Director of Photography.   Erland Josephson 'plays' the photographer.
 

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Ah. Finally an actor getting the grip. Trust the perfectionist Bergman to get everything as it should.

Camera is Nikon F + F-36 Motordrive (Cordless) and the lens probably 50/2 with snap-on hood; a common combination at the time.

[richardHaw]

"あなたのために" or "where the heart is"

[pluton]

My favourite is Blow Up followed by Apocalypse now  ....Blow up made me want to be a photographer and Apocalypse now made me desire a NikonF.

One film not yet mentioned City of God (2002)

He's not holding it wrong...the photo...or the shot in the movie... is flopped.  The finder appears not to be mocked up, but merely taped over also.

[richardHaw]

He's not holding it wrong...the photo...or the shot in the movie... is flopped.  The finder appears not to be mocked up, but merely taped over also.

i guessed that as well
because i did not see the shutter button

[BEZ]

The secret life of Walter Mitty

[BEZ]

I am number four

[BEZ]

Planet of the apes

[elsa hoffmann]

cool thread

[Bjørn Rørslett]

So what are the lessons to draw from the presented evidence?

It takes an ape to hold a camera. Most actors cannot do it.

True food for thought.

[Gary]

A twist on this Thread ... instead of movies with Nikons in them, a Nikon capture of an actor in a movie.


Gregory Peck on the set of "MacArthur". (Onboard the USS Los Angeles, the scene with President Harry Truman.)
Nikon F2 w/ Nikkor 85mm, Tri-X @ ASA 1600.

[RonVol]

One film not yet mentioned City of God (2002)

It's not a bad movie.
Unfortunately someone has reversed the image's orientation.
Here's what the shot should look like.
As you can see, it's a Nikon F with a bit of tape attached to the finder, perhaps Nikon didn't want to pay for the product placement in the movie.
The name of the character holding the camera is Rocket, played by Alexandre Rodrigues.
As you can see; he has a pretty good idea as to how to hold the camera.

[RonVol]

In the 1988 movie 'Crocodile Dundee II', the character Bob Tanner, played by Dennis Boutsikaris, is using a Nikon F3 and Relfex-Nikkor 500mm.

[Matthew Currie]

I believe a Nikon F appears (though it's not seen used) in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, and an F gets used a good bit in the movie Z.