And see my post 163 above.
My dad worked for a time as a photographer with his own studio. I remember him using a bellows camera well into the '60s, when he went into other lines of work.
Granted, this was not the '80s, but old technology does tend to hang around a while, even when newer stuff is available.
Yep- given the option, a larger format bellows camera for studio/ portraiture is always preferred. Some use 4x5 cameras today. There are production stills shot by Barry Sonnenfeld, the D.P. and Director on sets of movies he directed in the last 15-20 years where he used a 4x5 camera.
I was referring more to in the field news shooting. The delicate nature of the unfolding bellows and the mediocre smaller lenses gave way to better SLRs.
Right, though I do remember him using the bellows just to take family photos around the house. (He did eventually buy a Polaroid Land camera for such purposes.)
That’s a completely different kind of camera altogether!
That’s a completely different kind of camera.
You’d better tell the Captain. We’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.
A hospital? What is it?
It’s a big building with patients. But that’s not important right now. Tell the Captain I must speak to him.
Hello, I’m Paul Carey from the airline. I’m here to pick up Capt. Kramer…?
As Rifftrax put it for Cat Women of the Moon:
Leonard ’ I Never Say No’ Bernstein.
Wrong Bernstein … (unless I just got whooshed.)
“Oh, yes, come in, Paul. Rex will be right down.”
Damn it!!..It was Elmer who did Cat Women on the Moon!
“Shep, sit! Sit!”
[Close-up of a jiggling mound of Jell-O topped with a pineapple ring and a cherry; slow pan to a close-up of two big jiggling boobs.]
“So, I understand you have a real emergency down there.”
“Lots of people had plans for after the war. So did George Zip.”
That’s Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he’s Ethel Merman.
“Yeah, something like that, but as I said, they didn’t have time to tell me very much.”
Yeah, but we’re talking airports here. I’ve never seen a phone booth in an airport. Just wall mounted payphones with perhaps half-high partitions between them. The movie showed a bank of wooden phone booths in the airport, which was improbable and obviously a joke that went with the journalists wearing trench coats and hats and shooting with bellows cameras.
At the time the film was made, there were still those style of phone booths in a few older office buildings. (SF Bay Area) Not the airports, though.