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Post by Randy on Dec 31, 2011 14:12:04 GMT -5
I'm going a little off topic here, but it seems to fit. How many of you will be watching an old movie and happen to notice the type of camera one of the actors is using?
I watched a movie the other night with my wife on Turner Classics, and one of the actors was using a Pentax Spotmatic. I said, "hey, that guy is using a Pentax Spotmatic" to which my wife gave me a strange look and said, "shut up and watch the movie". lol
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Post by nikonbob on Dec 31, 2011 14:21:18 GMT -5
Yea, this the reaction I get too. Have a bad habit of noting cameras, guns and aircraft as well as the odd car too. Can't understand for the life of me why it goes unappreciated by my wife.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Dec 31, 2011 14:23:07 GMT -5
Sounds on-topic to me! Yes, always try to pick out the camera make - and wonder how much the manufacturer had 'paid' to get its product used.
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Post by pompiere on Jan 3, 2012 9:07:07 GMT -5
My kids spot them too and ask if I have one in my collection. I keep my comments short and try not to complain too much if they use a Brownie camera for a press photographer scene.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jan 3, 2012 10:22:13 GMT -5
Since I no longer have a wife or a TV I avoid many stressful situations.
I sometimes argue with myself but we always settle amicably.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Jan 3, 2012 13:43:26 GMT -5
It's okay to talk to yourself Mickey, but are you sure there isn't a parrot lurking in the shadows? ;D
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Post by photax on Jan 3, 2012 14:09:40 GMT -5
Ron,
It strikes me also if I see a movie, for instance with a 1950`s theme and spy a lot of 1960`s cameras, cars, radios etc...
MIK
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Post by Steeler Fan on Jan 17, 2012 7:22:34 GMT -5
My wife will actually turn around expecting me to tell her what camera it is. It also happens with guns, one of my former collecting "hobbies", but still a passion.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jan 17, 2012 7:39:42 GMT -5
My wife will actually turn around expecting me to tell her what camera it is. It also happens with guns, one of my former collecting "hobbies", but still a passion. You are fortunate that your wife is interested in your interests. Mickey |
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Post by Randy on Jan 17, 2012 13:56:04 GMT -5
My wife likes to watch old Highway Patrol shows with Broderick Crawford. She calls out the cars and what year they are, and how the women used to pluck all their eyebrows off and repaint them half way up their foreheads. lol
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Post by SidW on Jan 17, 2012 19:37:13 GMT -5
Talking of anachronistic guns in history movies, I'm usually upset by hearing the wrong engine sound on aircraft. Especially maddening is putting Stuka sirens on every Nazi aeroplane. Maybe it has a good side, strange combinations possibly don't cause distress. An Me 109 that sounds like Stuka doesn't affect me, but sometimes they get it right and then it still reminds me of the one that chased me home from school one afternoon. He didn't, of course, he had other business to attend to than chastizing disobedient a schoolboy who was to clever to wait in the shelter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2012 20:23:10 GMT -5
I've actually seen a TV show or movie where a jet plane sounded like a piston engine aircraft. Can't remember the show but remember thinking such a mistake (and nobody catching it) was incredible. And it wasn't the movie "Airplane" where they intentionally did it.
I think the 1960s movie "Blowup" probably sold tens of thousands of Nikon cameras. The photographer in the movie used Nikons and was photographing girls who just walked into his studio and took off their clothes.
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Post by Rachel on Jan 18, 2012 4:43:37 GMT -5
My wife likes to watch old Highway Patrol shows with Broderick Crawford. She calls out the cars and what year they are, and how the women used to pluck all their eyebrows off and repaint them half way up their foreheads. lol Randy, I remember Highway Patrol being on the TV when I was younger  Also I recall Hawaii Five-0 and 77 Sunset Strip. I used to love those programmes. |
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Post by Steeler Fan on Jan 18, 2012 7:24:39 GMT -5
My wife will actually turn around expecting me to tell her what camera it is. It also happens with guns, one of my former collecting "hobbies", but still a passion. You are fortunate that your wife is interested in your interests. Mickey I'm not sure that she has an "interest" in my intrests or if she just knows that it is inevitable that I will say something. Of course when she is watching some of her favorite movies like the Lethal Weapon series I have to stay mute and not tell her all of the wrong things with the "Hollywood" weapons.  |
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Post by Berndt on Jan 18, 2012 10:02:07 GMT -5
I once had to smash a camera in a TV commercial. An old beautiful TLR. I killed a lot of people on TV, raped girls and whatever an actor needs to do sometimes ... but THAT hurt  |
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Also I recall Hawaii Five-0 and 77 Sunset Strip. I used to love those programmes.
