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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #75 on: May 07, 2016, 04:20:06 »
I just ran across another movie Nikon in The Deep End of the Ocean,  a soaper about a missing child.  The mother, played here by Michelle Pfieffer, is a professional photographer (has a nice looking darkroom and stuff), and uses a square format thing that looks kind of like a Mamiya with a prism for studio work, and 35's for field work, and she's shown with what looks like a Nikon F5.  The movie supposedly spans a nine year period starting in the 1980's, but I can't recall whether the F5 occurs anachronistically or not, and the movie, on VHS not DVD, was not good enough to bother watching a second time.

I should add that, of course, in the usual movie manner, the Nikon, whatever it was, makes the motor drive sound of an F.  There is, also, at least one bit of realism here, in that in the critical scene where she is using the Nikon and a telephoto lens to identify the boy who turns out to be her lost kid, she runs out of film at at about the right time.

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #76 on: May 10, 2016, 02:18:17 »
Yes indeed Matthew.
The character that Michelle Pfieffer plays is shown using at least 3-4 different cameras.
The Nikons she uses are an F3 (which appears briefly as she does a lens/body swap) and then for the rest of the film she is seen using an FM2 with a Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 and also a 180mm f/2.8.
One of the rarer films where the actor can be seen to be actually holding the camera correctly!

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #77 on: May 10, 2016, 04:22:47 »
Thanks for the clarification, Ron.  I did not have a good enough view on VHS to isolate the camera.  If it's an FM2 with a motor drive, then the sound makes more sense, as does the viewfinder view in which we see the subject being brought into focus.  It's also not anachronistic even if she had it in her kit at the time of the kidnapping.

So I guess we must give the movie props for photographic realism even though I'm sorry to say that does not save it, in my humble opinion.

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #78 on: May 10, 2016, 10:15:10 »
Just stumbled across the movie Yellowbrickroad yesterday and to my surprise saw (and heard) the first monochromatic mirrorless Nikon D700.

The actor is seen trying to change a lens in th ebackground of a campfire scene and I wonder why they left that scene in because he never managed to find out how the lens mounts back on the camera.

Most of the photographs taken are shown as black&white images

The sound queue played in during editing does not sound like a mirror is moving. It also does not sound like a vertical travelling shutter but rather like a cloth shutter (compared to the sound my F makes after I switch it to mirror-up and the sound gets closer but not quit ethere. No titanium foil horizontal shutter sound either)
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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #79 on: May 12, 2016, 06:22:30 »
We Were Soldiers




The event in Viet Nam occurred before the invention of the FTn Finder, so the usage of a Nikon FTn by Joe in the movie is incorrect.  (Since I know the Set Decorator from the film I corrected him--he, in turn, blamed the set dresser).

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #80 on: May 12, 2016, 08:36:40 »
The event in Viet Nam occurred before the invention of the FTn Finder, so the usage of a Nikon FTn by Joe in the movie is incorrect.  (Since I know the Set Decorator from the film I corrected him--he, in turn, blamed the set dresser).

Dan

Well spotted Dan  :)

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #81 on: May 19, 2016, 00:11:09 »
Publicity shot of Indonesian-Dutch actor Laura Gemser, for the 1976 movie titled 'Black Emanuelle'.

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #82 on: July 29, 2016, 09:20:08 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUQsozpZUSw

Nikon F Ftn at 0:58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tce-THLUE
Nikkormat at 1:52?

 "soul brother too boucoup" :o :o :o i dont remember this scene ::)

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #83 on: July 29, 2016, 09:37:57 »
LOL.............classic scene.
I'd forgotten about the Alabama black snakes  :o

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #84 on: July 29, 2016, 09:52:47 »
i dont really remember the movie a lot to be honest. kubricks's angles are very good by the way :o :o :o
one of the characters is often seen with a Nikon.

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #85 on: August 07, 2016, 05:45:13 »

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #86 on: August 07, 2016, 12:28:59 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOWOqBkTnRM

i hope MTV's count :o :o :o

Looks like a Nikkor 200mm but not sure what the camera is.........an FM2 maybe?

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #87 on: August 07, 2016, 15:40:52 »
FM2 :o :o :o

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #88 on: August 12, 2016, 05:43:48 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjMZMxNr-0
FM and some Nikkors :o :o :o
saw Duran Duran live in 2009 i think. Simon and Nick still look as good as they did back in the days. they aged VERY well. plastic surgery? maybe.

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Re: Nikons & Nikkors In The Movies
« Reply #89 on: August 12, 2016, 08:27:44 »
speaking of Nick Rhodes... :o :o :o