What camera does he use?

What camera is he using in this footage?

Is (was) that a cool camera?

What is he doing with the camera and his phone at 0:41-0:42 ? :eek:

. Edited February 26, 2019 by inoneeye

Can't tell the precise make/model, but looks like a Kodak Instamatic clone. Not particularly "cool', but certainly ubiquitous.:rolleyes:

Camera? Whos the girl? ha ha Edited February 26, 2019 by Ricochetrider

Can't tell what it is. Agree with David the it looks like a Kodak Instamatic clone but not a Kodak. Something I wouldn't pick up in an estate sale so it's not cool.

I think the girl is Jane Birkin.

I agree it looks like an Instamatic, but I think it's a Voigtländer Vitessa 500 AE (link to camera-wiki). A much better thing, with focus, and a Prontor shutter, and using proper 35mm film. The Instamatic look is helped along by having a flash-cube mounted on it, though the Vitessa 500 AE has a proper flash shoe. I don't know if such cubes existed... maybe this shoots down my identification.

 

I gather the clip is from the film Slogan, where Serge plays a successful advertising director; so he would be unlikely to be using any old rubbish.

 

As to what he's doing with the phone and camera, I think we need to remember it's a film, and he's acting. I think he might be fancifully 'photographing' the woman on the other end of the phone, and remembering all the good times. He should put his trendy 60s Perspex phone on Ebay (maybe the orange plastic stairs too) and get an iphone; then they could face-time like normal people.

I think Dustin has it right (check the shutter release on the top left of the body). Looks like there may have been a number of flash-cube-to-hot-shoe adapters available in the period (LINK), and, for the video, the flash cube would be much more interesting (contributing materially to the 60's look and feel) than other choices would have been. Overall the video does a good job as a period reference, which, even today, we might confuse with an Austin Powers-type sendup.

Never seen one of those - it seems strange that a quality 35mm camera should be made to look like an Instamatic. I love the wood effect.

 

Thinking about it, perhaps I have seen one but just assumed it was a 126 cheapo.

One note of interest: In 1966 the flash cube was the absolute height of nouveau camera chic (LINK). The producers might simply have glued a flash cube to the hot shoe for purposes of the production, since I can't see any evidence of an adapter, though the hot shoe is fairly obvious.

Looks like a Voigtlander Vitessa 500 SE. http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/camera-4737-Zeiss%20Ikon%20-%20Voigtlander_Vitessa%20500%20SE.html

It must have an adapter for flashcubes.