Walken's SLR
Anybody know what model Minolta SLR Christopher Walken was using?
To me it looked like a XD7 or somesuch but I'd like to know for sure.
"Everbody in the WORLD, is bent"share
Tantalizing. The best shots of the camera seem to be in the jungle as he's following his guide up the hill, and when he stops with the woman on the bridge and again when he brings the camera up to shoot her in front of the military base. It may be two different cameras between the jungle and the woman; of course things move just enough that the answer remains obscured. However, the logo doesn't seem to be the XD7- it appears to be an XG-SE:
http://members.aol.com/manualminolta/xgse.htm
In doing all this focus on the camera for those few scenes, Walken seems quite at-ease in handling it. Does anyone know if he'd been a photography hobbyist or more? Kind of refreshing that it's a manual-wind camera, too. One thing, it's a pre-'81, when Minolta changed their logo.
No, I'm not going to dig for what the lens is.
What a strange thing for someone to be asking about. :D
What I had in mind was boxing the compass.share
The best shots of the camera seem to be in the jungle as he's following his guide up the hill
Yes, they're good-looking (after all, the master lenser Jack Cardiff shot it) but the sequence as a whole is rather lunkheaded -- I never understood the point of Jamie fooling the guide with suspense music playing during it. To what point, I ask?
I'd meant "best" in terms of quantity, not quality. It would have been better to have used "most clear".
What I had in mind was boxing the compass.share
He fools the guide to show him up for being an a-hole and maybe because he knows/or suspects that he is a state/army minder sent to keep tabs on him. Either way it is still a fun scene IMHO.
I gotta find out what makes a man decide not to run, why, all of a sudden, he'd rather die