ISO: 1930's Props

LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Looking for anything from the late 1920s to early 1930, specifically need film and still cameras

price range... Free to Cheap

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,047
    edited December 2012

    I don't know about the film and cameras, but Okham... Ockham... I forget the spelling, has a bunch of 30s-40s stuff... some of it leans towards toon, but it is pretty well done and detailed... it's at ShareCG.


    EDITED TO ADD: No cameras or film, but there are some phones and others things... its here:

    http://www.sharecg.com/pf/full_uploads.php?pf_user_name=ockham&division_id=0&s=dd&pn=1

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    kool, he has a few things i can use. Really not going for toon style. Some of it may work with some re-texturing

    the Cameras are the biggie, really wanting those. Thanx for the link

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    hmmm not detailed enough

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    I know you said cheap/free...and this isn't either, but is it the style of camera you are looking for?

    http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-classic-film-camera/509541

    And for still cameras, something like this?

    http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_details.aspx?id_product=621320

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    wow that is an awesome camera... but not going to spend $80 on a project I'm not making any money off from lol

    I'm thinking I really need to learn to model my own stuff, i get tired of searching for things all the time

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited December 1969

    wow that is an awesome camera... but not going to spend $80 on a project I'm not making any money off from lol

    I'm thinking I really need to learn to model my own stuff, i get tired of searching for things all the time

    The couple of free ones I've found, that are similar detail, are not in any format that is usable by DS and the one that I tried to convert ate up 4 GB of RAM and 3 GB of swap space during the conversion...and then ended up with a bazillion poly OBj...and that was a smaller than Speed Graphix camera...it's a model of a Kodak from the same era (the poly count is several hundred thousand...and decimating it to something low enough to use would totally ruin it).

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,281
    edited December 1969

    It's an awkward era to try and find. There are at least a couple of turn of the century cameras out there. Which look reasonably well, even if not absolutely accurate. But mid-century is far less popular. It hasn't been taken up by the steampunk set.

  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    I have a really old out dated freebie film camera i picked up... sheesh i think i got it when i was working in Poser 4. No clue who made it, and it is a really bad model by todays standards. Looked awesome back then though. Anyway, I thought I might use that as a basis for building my own.

    its about time i learn to model stuff

  • edited December 2012

    This may be a little early in period, but it may do. It's currently on sale for $4.76, but I’d hurry as the sale was supposed to end almost two weeks ago, so no telling how long it will remain that price.

    Post edited by daz.3d_6d12b24f7e on
  • LycanthropeXLycanthropeX Posts: 2,287
    edited December 1969

    hey kool, thanx

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,281
    edited December 1969

    Yeah, that's one of the ones I was thinking of too. I suspect portrait studios may have still been using them in the '30s (the old guy who took the departmental group portraits at work was using one from about WWI era in the 1990s). But it's not what a photographer in the field would have had.

  • IceScribeIceScribe Posts: 690
    edited December 1969

    no suggestions, but just a comment on the type of camera that is on a tripod with the folding box. It had glass plates prepared with a special light sensitive material instead of film.

    The grain was finer because of the emulsion. I used one in photography class in the 1980s! I think a tabloid or crime scene camera or one like WeeGee used would be great. It would have the flash bulb attachment and the same kind of collapsing box. And slightly to one side of topic, in an episode of "Eureka", the sy fy production, one of the characters finds some old 35 millmeter film and says, "now, we have to find someone old enough who knows how to develop it".

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,281
    edited December 1969

    What you are describing is the Speed Graphic that was linked to up thread. Pretty much your quintessential reporters' camera.

  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,698
    edited December 1969

    BeyondVR has a camera that may work for you: http://www.sharecg.com/v/43077/gallery/11/Poser/620-Camera
    if only for distance shots. There's also a candlestick phone from about the same time: http://www.sharecg.com/v/43704/gallery/11/Poser/Candlestick-Phone

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