CSI camera equipment

[kwsanders]

I was watching the season premiere of CSI last night that I recordered last week. I was watching the team members during their photography scenes (yes, I have it bad). :cry:

Anyway, I noticed that they were using Nikon equipment for the show. Not that it matters much, but does anyone know what models of Nikon they are using for these scenes during filming?

[b16pwrdej1]

You're not the only one....I've also noticed that they use Nikon equipment. In some of the earlier seasons they were using some point & shoot....not sure which brand.

[mikaelo]

It seem to me that the use diffenet P&S cameras along with various SLR's in different episodes.(I Tivo season pass on CSI.) Sometimes with ring flash, sometimes paparazzi style flash (side mount bracket).

[kwsanders]

I have noticed the point and shoot in previous seasons as well, but they were definitely sporting the Nikon digital SLR equipment in the season premiere for this season. :)

[mc41]

I understand digital wouldnt stand up in a court because of integrity,so why are they using 1 ?

[Agger]

There are DVK available to prove that such and such a photo was taken with this camera and has been unshopped :cool:

DVK = Data verification kit ;) I know some people who use these on Canon kit :cool:



I understand digital wouldnt stand up in a court because of integrity,so why are they using 1 ?

[Prox]

I understand digital wouldnt stand up in a court because of integrity,so why are they using 1 ?

Canon actually offers a Data Verification Kit named DVK-E2. Not sure if Nikon has any similar products.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0401/04012903canondvke2.asp

[Beeclose]

They will use whatever camera distributor pays the most cash for the exposure.EW.

[Matthew_h]

I watched a show about the real CSI guys and they were using a Polaroid camera. At first I couldn't understand why but then thought that it must be down to that being the only real method of producing shots that can be proven to be undoctored.

[mikaelo]

I watched a show about the real CSI guys and they were using a Polaroid camera. At first I couldn't understand why but then thought that it must be down to that being the only real method of producing shots that can be proven to be undoctored.

I remember in the second half of the '90s there was a "printer" using Polariod film, making those assumptions false. Don't remember if it was made by Polaroid or third party.

At that same time we used to print digital and scans to film - 35mm, 4x5 and 8x10.

The sheet film was exposed on a Kodak LVT machine (as I remember the technology was later sold to Dice America,the producer of the Cheetah RIP, and later transfered to Durst in a merger) and the 35mm was done on another (don't remember the name) slide recorder at relative low resolution (the figure sticking in my head is "4000 lines" on the film) and didn't have anyware as good gradients relative to the LVT @ Res120 (120 pixels/mm) continues tone.

I remember a full resolution 8x10 used a file size of around 1gb. We only use full res when "repairing" original transparencies that we drum scanned and fixed in photoshop. I remember we once fixed a damaged 4x5 that was later called an original.

I'm sure with todays technology you could create even better film prints.

Those were the days before digital was accepted as serious medium :rolleyes:...we used digital in the process but the end user (printing ind.) requiered film. And we processed them images on 200Mhz PPC Macs and thought we had high end equipment. ;)

[MazerRakhm]

We talked about this back in May (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71555&page=3&highlight=csi) they've been using different model N's for a while now. I'm sure it's payed advertising by N, it's standard practice for TV shows/Movies to sell the "exposure" for these types of things in order to lower production costs

[ssim]

I can remember seeing a documentary on tv about a year ago on one of the companies that pitches the merchandise to the tv and movie production companies.

It is incredibly big business. The production companies try and squeeze every little bit of leverage they can from companies that want their wares displayed on tv. I'm pretty sure that Nikon just outbid the other competitors for this.

[Rigrider]

Take a look at television and movies. If there's a product name visable, it's a paid advertisment. Plain and simple. It's call product placement and it's big bucks. If someones drinking a Pepsi, it's because Pepsi is paying for it, otherwise, it's just a beverage. Same goes for someone using a camera, and Nikon Pays alot of money for ALOT of product placement. Though recently I have started to see Canon pop up here and there.

L8r,

[Claire]

I have of course seen the N logo on the CSI cameras, but I don't feel like they're being overly obvious about it actually. More now than before though. Still, not so much that it annoys me. I've started to see a trend of them having BMW's in the show though. Didn't notice that before.

[Skip Souza]

Product placement is a big deal in Hollywierd and can mean big $$$$.
As far as evidence integrity goes, this subject was broached in my department. It was brought up by, you guessed it, lawyers. The prosecuting attorney feared that the defense would reject digital photos because they could be altered. Our CSI took a film photo from the lawyer, scanned it , altered it, printed it, and asked him which was an accurate representation of the original scene. Stopped him cold. Then our guy berated him for impugning the integrity of his deputies.

[FlyingPhotog]

Dunno which Noik but I happened to notice the other night that three differenct characters were using the same camera three different ways.

- Looking through optical viewfinder
- Holding camera away from face (ala "Live View)
- Just banging away without looking at anything

[romeo26]

hahaha...i noticed this too! but its okay canon does this to...and does it alot! if you watch sports on tv then you will know what iam talking about! talk about going overboard with the sea of white lenses! hahahaha...of course thats free advertisement!

[FlyingPhotog]

hahaha...i noticed this too! but its okay canon does this to...and does it alot! if you watch sports on tv then you will know what iam talking about! talk about going overboard with the sea of white lenses! hahahaha...of course thats free advertisement!

???

Uh, you realize that all the white lenses on the sidelines are working photographers, right?

They're using Canon by choice and not because Canon paid for them to be there. It's not the same thing as "Product Placement" on entertainment shows.

I'll grant you that the majority are either rented or leased but Canon ain't paying for them to be there.

[modemanual]

I'm pretty sure they use a D200 at least, because i'd know that body shape anywhere.

[cskn0125]

yup..

And you think you have it bad? I took about 30 screen shots of Americas Next Top Model to see the lighting setup and everything else that was going on!

HAHA.