NIKON IN MOVIES
>>What about a "Nikon in movies" survey? E-mail me.
>>Riccardo
>>Rome, Italy
>Spielberg did use F5 *after* it was released, at least.
Too bad they did not have film in that dinosaur movie. Watch the rewind
knob, it does not rotate as the film is advanced.
In one of the Crocodile Dundee movies there is a photographer at the start
who uses a Nikon (F3?) with a 500/8 CAT lens, you get right up into the
mirror. Then as he is running it turns into a 50-300 zoom. And he doesn't
have film either as A) the rewind knob does not rotate and B) he fired
about 70 frames without changing film and he has no 250 back.
>The view then switched to a through-the-viewfinder-like one
>(without any kinds of indicator, shutter speeds, f/stop,
>all the exposure stuff, is this normal for earlier Nikon bodies?)
The earlier bodies had nothing. The movie industry used a mask for the F2A
viewfinder view, and I agree that it is one of the prettier finders
anywhere. But they sometimes show it wiht a Pentax body! I love the times
you hear a motor drive but the guy winds the film by hand.
>Then the blurred image inside the viewfinder of that manual body
>became as sharp as it could be and as fast as an AF would do.
>Frame by frame, he somehow managed to set the exposure
>and focus on the fly and went as fast as what looked like 3 fps
>(all crisp sharp). That was fun. I wish I can do things as fast as
>that boy.
Don't you also love it when the action STOPS while the film advances? How
nice!
Robert in Redlands, off to shoot in North Carolina for 9 days!
