this is really off-topic...but this just bothers me...

...but have you seen screens from the new movie "spider-man?" i mean, what is up with that camera? i mean, is that lens a Quantaray???

anyways, i have an idea for the Leica marketing people: moviegoers should see Peter Parker using an R8 in the sequels...

- end of rant -

-- Dexter Legaspi (dalegaspi@hotmail.com), May 02, 2002

Answers

The "real" Peter Parker was a starving student freelancing for the local paper. Probably he would have used a Quantaray. (Doubt if he could have afforded Leica on Aunt May's salary.)

-- Gary Voth (garyvot@vothphoto.com), May 03, 2002.

ah, yes...you are correct, Gary...i forgot about that...

-- Dexter Legaspi (dalegaspi@hotmail.com), May 03, 2002.

Spiderman probably used a Practika (although in the movie it looks like a black Canon F-1 with the removable pentaprism). But Norman Osborn (aka the Green Goblin) was a well-to-do nanotechnologist/industrialist who appreciated the better things in life. I think he would've used an M4 with an older 50 summicron lens. Besides, Peter Parker needed the zoom lens capabilities of an SLR for getting close-ups... with a titanium-reinforced exoskeleton and a flying skateboard it would be much easier for the Goblin to close the distance between himself and his subjects. Now as for the question of surrendipity.... well.....

-- John (ouroboros_2001@yahoo.com), May 05, 2002.

Peter Parker's camera in the Spiderman movie (a brassy Canon New F-1):

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), May 06, 2002.

Peter Parker's camera in the Spiderman movie (a brassy Canon New F-1 with AE Finder FN):

-- Hoyin Lee (leehoyin@hutchcity.com), May 06, 2002.