Great men have made cameras that inspire...

[Tim Whitcomb]

you guys need to go see HUGO --- and in 3D - regardless of what it was shot on... its a fantastic homage to old cinema cameras and techniques - the hand crank camera and archival footage in that film is to die for.

 

[John C Picking Jr]

No f-ing way. i was just thinking this morning that I should post a pic of my Mamiya Sekor 500DTL. Thanks for the memory update!

I still have mine but the battery pissed itself inside the camera and the meter won't work. Everything else in manual and works.

 

[Filip Orlandic]

My first still camera was a black Nikon F2 from 72' (2007). I love it so much and It works like a charm!

My first motion camera was of course the almighty HDCAM killer called the RED ONE (2008) I regret because of upgrading all of my RED ONEs to M-X sensor. I am impressed how Mysterium sensor is able to capture nice images.

RED cameras are great products and I am under RED 4K+ influence. This really means a lot to me.

Thank You Jim for making this 4K+ matchbox revolution.

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

I have a Leica Lexus

Luxus.

I had an F3HP but I gave it away, thinking that I'd never use film again. I was wrong, but the new owner was so happy with it that I never regretted giving it away.

Great story, Jarred. I Love Cameras. They are soo mystical.

Damned straight. Sometimes you can just say the word 'camera' and my brain will light up.

Hi there,

somebody have one of this:

https://www.lytro.com/camera

it is a joke?

That is not a joke. But the images are of low resolution.

 

[Jannard]

Thanks for catching the spelling error... fixed now. And it is the very 1st example of "over the top marketing" for a camera.

Jim

Luxus.

 

[mikeburton]

Just bought an Arri 435 package. It's my favorite camera ever made and am so stoked that I was able to get such an amazing price. There's nothing like owning something you grew up thinking you would never be able to afford. Next is the Lamborghini Countach that was on my bedroom wall for years

 

[Josef Gatti]

Sadly my first camera was on my nokia, awkward. Does that count?

First video camera to be is this thing called a Scarlet, don't know if y'all have heard of it. It's pretty good.

 

[Sergio Perez]

Sony TRV 900E, the first camera I ever owned and used to shot my first film (a documentary) as well as some local TV commercials. Its in display in my living room. Excellent form factor and it produced an excellent image in Betacam days. Currently it has a broken tape mechanism but if fixed i think I could still do good SD images with this. I only keep with me cameras that have had a significant impact on my career (that represent times of change for me and are significant in my own "filmography"). I have with me today this TRV900,an HVX200 (which i shot My first narrative short film shown internationally as well as my first internationally broadcast TVC) and now, my 5D mkII and 7D (But the 7D will go. the Mark II was the camera with which I shot the short film I'm more proud of, which represents the culture of my own community better.)

The Epic will be the one that's going to mark the next significant change. I hope this camera inspires me to do something remarkable, beyond everything I've done so far. I have to say that amongst all the other offerings out there this was the one I felt is more inspiring. Its the only camera out there that makes me think "Ok, if you can't do anything remarkable with this, you obviously should change your field of work" . Its a camera that makes me push beyond my limits and go beyond my comfort zone. I can't wait to get started with it!

 

[Celestino Gianotti]

Hi there,

somebody have one of this:

https://www.lytro.com/camera

it is a joke?

That is not a joke. But the images are of low resolution.

I read in a review on lytro camera that is 1080x1080 not so bad for the first light-field camera.

Ok, is a toy but let me dream a RED ARMAGEDDON-XYZ where I shot movies, chose focus distance and DOF in post-production and make 3D video just using one lens...

This technology means a bad impact on FF and 3D rig producer industry ? :drool:


I would like to know what Jim think about Lytro and Light-Field technology

 

[Christian Edwards]

I would like to know what Jim think about Lytro and Light-Field technology

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?65086-I-want-to-tell-you&p=845014&viewfull=1#post845014

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread...RES-RED-CAMERA&p=845081&viewfull=1#post845081

 

[Peter Strietmann]

kodak Bantam. One of the first cameras I ever used, was my great grandfathers. Bakelite body, art deco. Maybe the pinnacle of camera styling. Last time I found film for it was in the late 70s.

 

[Peter Majtan]

I have personal attachment with almost every camera I have ever owned and used as every single one of them taught me something new. But if I had to pick one, it would be the FUJI GX 617:

And this is why...:

I hope the 617 EPIC is not that far away...

Peter

 

[Bill Anderson]

As a kid growing up in Scotland, I received my first camera unuxpecdately, by mail; I was about seven. It was from "dad" - a man I had no memory of.
We couldn't afford film or processing but I used the camera often to isolate certain things and would "photograph" them. I really began using the camera when I became a Merchant Marine.
One of our regular ports was Malaga; I made many snapshots from the deck of the ship (The Oriana) looking out over the region. A year ago a friend of my sister, while on holiday in Spain,
struck up a conversation with an old English guy in a bar in Mijas, Malaga: a long story short, it was my father.
He had been living in Spain since he had parted from my mother. I have just received an address for this other "Bill Anderson", and have sent him an invitation to my current photography exhibition at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver.

 

[Eric Lange]

As a kid growing up in Scotland, I received my first camera unuxpecdately, by mail; I was about seven. It was from "dad" - a man I had no memory of.
We couldn't afford film or processing but I used the camera often to isolate certain things and would "photograph" them. I really began using the camera when I became a Merchant Marine.
One of our regular ports was Malaga; I made many snapshots from the deck of the ship (The Oriana) looking out over the region. A year ago a friend of my sister, while on holiday in Spain,
struck up a conversation with an old English guy in a bar in Mijas, Malaga: a long story short, it was my father.
He had been living in Spain since he had parted from my mother. I have just received an address for this other "Bill Anderson", and have sent him an invitation to my current photography exhibition at Winsor Gallery in Vancouver.

Holy smokes…

It doesn’t get deeper than that… emotionally or photographically; let us know how it works out.

Eric

 

[Eric Lange]

I have personal attachment with almost every camera I have ever owned and used as every single one of them taught me something new. But if I had to pick one, it would be the FUJI GX 617:

And this is why...:

I hope the 617 EPIC is not that far away...

Peter

Larger format shooter for the same sorts of reasons, 9 by 6 cm though and also weird glass plate cameras that are 13 cm by 18cm ( Zeiss UMK1318).

I too am very interested to see what RED will bring with large format.

Really nice shots BTW.

Cheers,

Eric

 

[Phil Holland]

I've used a lot of cameras and have love/hate for many, but the first footage off of an old Fries vistavision camera blew me away. I was in my early 20s. I'll never forget seeing that projected for the first time. That format seems to have become a super rarity these days though. Which is why I was smitten with a certain DSLR even with all it's horrible technical limitations.

It's fascinating to look back at cameras through out your life and the journey that led you to where you are now.. One odd thing that happened to me was when I began with photography as a child I seemed to be so focused on how to make "bad things" happen. Double exposures, light bleeds, flashing, burning, scratching, cracking lenses, smearing Polaroids, leaving the mag open, etc... Good clean photographs seemed to never interest me as a kid.

Then strangely I put photography down for a few years until around the end of high school, and looking back at the beautiful places I've camped and hiked I probably shouldn't have. Pretty damn quickly after that I was thrust into a world of still cameras, digital medium backs, and prototype motion picture cameras shooting material ranging from extremely technical imaging to those weird "bad things" I used to shoot as a child. Circle of life I guess. Spent a huge amount of time digitally scanning S35, color correcting/grading, and filming out via laser recorder. So much technical work. Never imagined something like that.

Just prior to exiting high school I was focused on genetic engineering and molecular biology. I don't recall why the dramatic shift transpired, but it was pretty quick and I was hell bent on working in motion pictures and producing imagery for some reason. Looking back at it now it makes me wonder how and why that rather quick transformation took place.

 

[Eric Lange]

Molecular biology…

Molecular biology…

I've used a lot of cameras and have love/hate for many, but the first footage off of an old Fries vistavision camera blew me away. I was in my early 20s. I'll never forget seeing that projected for the first time. That format seems to have become a super rarity these days though. Which is why I was smitten with a certain DSLR even with all it's horrible technical limitations.

It's fascinating to look back at cameras through out your life and the journey that led you to where you are now.. One odd thing that happened to me was when I began with photography as a child I seemed to be so focused on how to make "bad things" happen. Double exposures, light bleeds, flashing, burning, scratching, cracking lenses, smearing Polaroids, leaving the mag open, etc... Good clean photographs seemed to never interest me as a kid.

Then strangely I put photography down for a few years until around the end of high school, and looking back at the beautiful places I've camped and hiked I probably shouldn't have. Pretty damn quickly after that I was thrust into a world of still cameras, digital medium backs, and prototype motion picture cameras shooting material ranging from extremely technical imaging to those weird "bad things" I used to shoot as a child. Circle of life I guess. Spent a huge amount of time digitally scanning S35, color correcting/grading, and filming out via laser recorder. So much technical work. Never imagined something like that.

Just prior to exiting high school I was focused on genetic engineering and molecular biology. I don't recall why the dramatic shift transpired, but it was pretty quick and I was hell bent on working in motion pictures and producing imagery for some reason. Looking back at it now it makes me wonder how and why that rather quick transformation took place.

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Don’t worry my father forbade me and my brother from going into the “film business” but somehow he always knew I would have something to do with cameras and cinematography; I also had a very notable archaeologist threaten to have my legs broken if attended the National Film and Television School in the UK.

You never know what’s round the corner. You know there’s some pretty amazing imaging techniques being employed in molecular biology; a lot of people in film and TV are schizophrenics between art and science and is sometimes a tug of war as society tells us we can only be one or the other. We go out of our way to prove otherwise.

Ta.

Eric

 

[Marc Wielage]

I have personal attachment with almost every camera I have ever owned and used as every single one of them taught me something new. But if I had to pick one, it would be the FUJI GX 617

Beautiful pictures, Peter -- first class work. Ichiban! 第1!

 

[Timur Civan]

I discovered Miroslav Tichy a couple years ago and was absolutely dumbfounded. Not only by his images - but also in the ingenuity of the cameras he made and the unique images that were produced.
http://www.reduser.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=19346&stc=1&d=1324138782
http://www.reduser.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=19345&stc=1&d=1324138765

Mind thoroughly blown.

"First of all, you have to have a bad camera", and, "If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world."

-Tichy

 

[Alan Rosenfeld]

I keep a circa 1918 model of a Kodak Brownie box camera on my desk to remind me of how George Eastman made the initial fortune that enabled him to develop flexible film base that helped start this industry we all get to play in. The lenses are some old 16mm Angenieux zooms.