Posts tagged: nikon
A couple of Nikon F cameras in the brilliant 1974 movie, “The Conversation.”
One of them has an “action finder”. They are both fitted with a motor drive.
In the 2001 movie “Iris”, the story of novelist Iris Murdoch, we see this Nikon F4.
The F4 was the first pro Nikon SLR to have autofocus. Interestingly, it was also the first to have no manual film advance lever.
Iris (2001) - Nikon F4
Cameras in “Killer Elite” (2011).
The ex-mercenary Danny Bryce is seen at one point with a Nikon F2 Photomic but is never seen using it. His working camera is an Olympus XA.
Another spy uses a Ricoh KR-5, and yet another has a very nice black body Olympus OM-1 with a motor drive.
A time-travelling Nikon F in Doctor Who, Season 7, Episode 9, “Hide” (2013).
The Doctor travels through the entirety of Earth’s history, past and future, with a borrowed Nikon F Photomic FTn. I always knew it was a rugged camera.
Doctor Who uses a Nikon F Photomic FTn.
Episode 9 of the new Season 7, “Hide”.
A Nikon F3 being used by Larenz Tate in the 2003 movie A Man Apart.
Cameras belonging to the character ‘Ansel’ in the X-files episode Quagmire.
The Hasselblad is easy to pick, but the two SLR’s are more difficult. The camera mounted on the motor drive (which itself looks like a Nikon MD-11) is possibly a Nikon FM or FE.
In one picture the lens cap is on!
Leonard Nimoy with a Nikon F.
Father Ted shooting with a Nikon F90. Unknown lens, possibly a 500mm Tamron.
It’s interesting to note that the “Nikon” branding has been taped over, but the model number, which clearly identifies the camera as a NIkon, is uncovered.
The F90 (N90 in the US for some reason) was an autofocus 35mm SLR camera manufactured throughout the 90’s. It was at the time a bit of a stop-gap measure to fill a hole in the Nikon line-up - a rapidly autofocussing SLR. Te pro model of the time, the F4, had sluggish autofocus, and Nikon was losing customers to Canon. The F5 came a little later, and fixed the problem.
George Harrison with a plain prism Nikon F.
