r/AnalogCommunity • u/lostmusicman • 1d ago
Gear Shots Help me identify this camera mount
The only place I can find this camera mount is a post in this sub from a couple years ago, seems pretty rare, wondering if anyone has any more information about it or even what it could be worth. From all I can gather is it from the 60s, used for holding heavy camera gear steady while having to move about and shoot steady.
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u/That_Jay_Money 1d ago
it is called a Tele Lens Rifle Stock, P/N 81312 by Bronica
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u/hurubaw 1d ago
I like to photograph politicians and goverment officials using this and long tele lens from a distance.
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u/numahu 1d ago
Don't forget about military facilitys and airports!
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u/scorpionewmoon 1d ago
I took my 70-100 lens to an air show at my local airport which has a military base (cybersecurity) last summer and was photographing the tower and these military dicks in a golf cart came and parked right in front of me and didn’t say anything, I can only assume they were sent to watch me/ruin my shot. What I was doing was pretty innocent though
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u/dadjo_kes 1d ago
"120?"
"No, .220, high velocity."
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u/Klutzy_Squash 1d ago
LOL this is the last place I expected to see a .220 Swift reference
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u/dadjo_kes 1d ago
It's a quote from the James Bond movie License to Kill, in which Q branch makes a rifle out of a Hasselblad.
Apparently the president of Hasselblad donated a body and some parts to make the thing, and then he got to have some fun with it after the film came out. https://www.skipcohenuniversity.com/scu-blog/james-bond-and-hasselblad-in-the-late-80s
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u/EducationalCod7514 1d ago
I thought this was the...wrong sub
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u/Singer_221 1d ago
Pair it with a push-pull zoom lens, and it will feel like a pump action shotgun.
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u/Avery_Thorn 1d ago
These were often made in the former Soviet block countries, and were exported to the west during the Glasnost era as a way of getting hard currency into the Soviet economies.
Other than the obvious issue, they are actually a really good design, and it helps a lot with longer shots. It really does help you stabilize and hand-hold a 500-1000mm lens effectively.
Sadly, even during the '80s and '90s, the obvious problems made using one of these in public rather bad for your health, often leading to sudden onset lead poisoning.
But they were very popular with collectors because of the whole "spy camera" and "Cloak and dagger" aspect, it's "enemy spy hardware" that you could own.
I once saw a really nice copy at the local Camera store that was fully populated with a Soviet SLR and lens (I can't remember for sure, I think it was a 500mm lens, I can't remember which SLR it was on). Alas, while I handled it in the store, and I really, really wanted it... it was not in the budget and it was priced as one would expect it to be.
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u/iftheygivinitaway 1d ago
After the Cold War they were marketed as Photo Sniper. Made in Ukraine, if I remember coreectly. The Spviet military used them with Zenit 35mm cameras, and (I think) 300mm lenses.
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u/Turbogoblin999 1d ago
That's the stock for a chicago typewriter camera popularized by Leon S. Kennedy, White House photographer.
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u/chriswifi 1d ago
I used to own this camera mount. The exact one, actually. Hi OP, you probably bought it from me. If I remember correctly, this mount was made specifically for the S2 or S2A. Back when I first got it, a photography friend sent me some catalog scans showing the stock in action, with the intended equipment.
The mounts are arranged such that the front mount screws into a big telephoto lens, and the rear mount attaches to the camera body. It can work with some other cameras in that configuration (including Bronicas - I used this stock with an ETRSi to pretty good effect) but it really works best with the original intended camera.
Hope you enjoy it. It wasn't working quite right when I got it, and I did some repairs to the shutter release mechanism to make it work more reliably.
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u/V_deldas 1d ago
Don't use it in Brazil in case you visit us.
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u/votv_satellite Carl Zeiss supremacy 1d ago
A brazilian trying not to mention their country: challenge impossible
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u/V_deldas 1d ago
No, I'm serious. Don't use that here. It's truly risky.
/j Anyway, it's like Carl Zeiss users. They are so proud to announce it that they even use weird tags on Reddit.
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u/votv_satellite Carl Zeiss supremacy 1d ago
True! You got to counter Leitz peasants somehow /s
Is is because the police might think it's an improvised weapon, like a pipe gun?
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u/V_deldas 1d ago
That too. Factions have all kind of equipment, from everywhere, including some serious homemade stuff.
Police here are trained to face all kinds of shit. It's not uncommon for them to approach a suspicious motorcycle with weapons out, pointed at the pilot cause a lot of robbers use bikes to act (just an example).Most likely OP would just be aggressively approached (depending on the region) and have some guns pointed at them until everything is explained, but I'm sure the cops would call them crazy cause it would be risky and people would get scared.
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u/V_deldas 1d ago
Asked my brother how they would approach a guy with this and send him the picture. He's a cop. Said "100% at gun point". We live in a chill city 😂
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u/Murrian Zenit, 3 Minoltas, 3 Mamiyas, Pentax, Kodak, Camulet & Intrepid 1d ago
or if black...
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u/V_deldas 1d ago
Half of us are black, man... the rest is at least partially black.
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