In 1988 The Killing Joke was released and gave birth to a couple of iconic images including The Joker holding a camera to his eye. But what camera was it? Does it exist in the real world? Find out on this episode of This Old Camera.
Nikkormats also have the shutter speed round the lens throat. Early Olympus OM cameras had a hot shoe port, but the shoe was an accessory. By the N model they were integrated, so probably an old version.
I have both nice and easy to switch between. Honestly I don't know why more camera manufacturers didn't go with this system. It puts the controls right where you need them.
The OM-2/n and OM-2S (or Spot/Program outside the US) are often lumped together, but they're really different cameras. The OM-2/OM-2N has the guts of an electro-mechanical, aperture priority SLR stuffed by magic into the body of an OM-1. The OM-2S is basically a variation on the OM-4: same chassis, same metering sensor, same electronic self timer, similar circuit boards and processors. If you can see past the battery drain issues (a common problem with OM series cameras of the age), it's a pretty neat camera. The beautiful thing about Olympus's implementation of program exposure is that it will work with any OM mount lens. It fell into a weird position of being not quite a pro camera, but a little too complicated for an amateur camera. It was also only released a year or so before Minolta came out with the Maxxum 7000 and instantly blew away the market for such "in between" manual focus SLR's, and thus had the shortest run of all the single digit OM's. So it's always been sort of the sleeper of the OM system.
Ha! I did it recently after watching Wes Anderson's Asteroid City. Augie Steenbeck's 'Muller Schmid' Swiss Mountain Camera turns out to be a humble Kiev 4m.
Interesting that they used some German references on a Japanese camera. “Witz” means “joke” in German. “Witzmacher” is somehow wrong German. “Witzemacher” sounds much better to German ears and means something like “joke teller” or maybe “joker” in German.
Good grief, you've managed to trigger my gear acquisition syndrome... over a poster. Ordered. Now the real question is whether my GAS will be satisfied with the poster, or will I need an OM-2S as well?
I paused Weird Al's Amish Paradise video one of their were tourists laughing at photographing thebAmish. I couldn't make out the specific models but one camera was a 110 camera with a flash Cube and the other was a 35mm Minolta SLR with one of the Minolta flash units.
Though I am neither a Batman or Joker fan, and not faithful to the Olympus brand, I find your treatise on this subject interesting, much like interpreting an H.R.Geiger painting. I have done similar studies on many other subjects such as motorcycles, spacecraft sent to Mars, stereo equipment and even 1980s female fashion models. All of the “Easter Eggs” at the end are fun to have pointed out once the artist’s creative nature is exposed.
Do you have other videos on "Cameras in Film"? I just watched your Spider-Man video and I remember this scene from a movie that I can not pick (possibly Superman Returns?) where there's a photographer being saved because they were too preoccupied with snapping away at something and I thought "that camera and lens combo doesn't seem right".
