wlaidlaw Posted September 25, 2012 Share #1 Posted September 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I was watching an episode of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot on UK ITV3 last night. It is The Case of the Missing Silver Mine Map. A policeman is following a suspect and takes some clandestine photographs of the suspect meeting some confederates. He was using what looks like a model III or IIIA, fitted with a nickel Elmar. Obviously someone had explained the use of the camera to the actor and he was focusing it properly with the focus tab and winding on after each shot with the winder knob. Sadly the photographs would not have been very much use, as he had failed to extend the lens Give the producers due credit however, for trying to use a proper period camera. I doubt however if Scotland Yard would have been sufficiently advanced at that time, to have been using a Leica. They would have probably given their undercover man a 4 x 5 Speed Graflex Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pop Posted September 25, 2012 Share #2 Posted September 25, 2012 Oh well; there was James Bond taking the most unusual pictures with a Minox B. He obviously was photographing his palm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 25, 2012 Share #3 Posted September 25, 2012 Funny coincidence.... ; 3 days ago, in RAI TV , I watched the long pictures "La meglio gioventù" ("The best youth") , dated 2003 in which, consistent with the ages it tells about, one of the female actors (Maya Sansa) , a photographer in the picture, uses a black M6 (or M4-P ?) during a reportage in Sicily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share #4 Posted September 25, 2012 There is an advert on British TV at the moment, where they are using an M8. It is a very brief shot but it looks as if it does not have a lens on and still has the "Clean the sensor" pink sticker on the body cap. It is hilarious when the continuity people make mistakes like that. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pintpot Posted September 25, 2012 Share #5 Posted September 25, 2012 Thanks Wilson. I saw that also, I was hoping for it to come on again so I could confirm it. My sticker is still on my body cap, but the body cap is in the box Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share #6 Posted September 25, 2012 Tony, Perhaps the young lady holding the M8 (it might be a chrome M9-P), has drilled a tiny hole in the cap and is using it as a pinhole lens I have a body cap with a small metal plate in it as exactly that. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hiles Posted September 25, 2012 Share #7 Posted September 25, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) There is an episode where Hastings, at a rural outdoor fair, is using a Leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share #8 Posted September 25, 2012 Michael, Maybe it was the same one from ITV's props cupboard. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted September 25, 2012 Share #9 Posted September 25, 2012 I was watching an episode of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot on UK ITV3 last night. It is The Case of the Missing Silver Mine Map. A policeman is following a suspect and takes some clandestine photographs of the suspect meeting some confederates. He was using what looks like a model III or IIIA, fitted with a nickel Elmar. Obviously someone had explained the use of the camera to the actor and he was focusing it properly with the focus tab and winding on after each shot with the winder knob. Sadly the photographs would not have been very much use, as he had failed to extend the lens Wilson May be it was a 35 Elmar and not a 50 ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share #10 Posted September 25, 2012 JC, 35 Elmars are quite rare in the UK, especially in nickel. I just suspect ignorance (Occams razor principle - the obvious answer is usually correct). Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted September 26, 2012 Share #11 Posted September 26, 2012 can be...anyway the confusion is easy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted September 27, 2012 Share #12 Posted September 27, 2012 Funny coincidence.... ; 3 days ago, in RAI TV , I watched the long pictures "La meglio gioventù" ("The best youth") , dated 2003 in which, consistent with the ages it tells about, one of the female actors (Maya Sansa) , a photographer in the picture, uses a black M6 (or M4-P ?) during a reportage in Sicily. Luigi nella fiction "Commissario Nardone" il fotografo sta sera usa una M3 con il flash CEYOO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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