Graflex in the Taco Bell Add in Super Bowl

[ki6mf]

It looks like Speed or Crown Graphics were used in the Charles Barkley Taco Bell add. There were photographers using LF press cameras in the background.

[Walter Calahan]

I had to laugh when I saw it, and asked a buddy if he thought it was digital. Grin.

Amazing that viewers still except the Speed Graphic as a legitimate camera example.

[Mark Sawyer]

Amazing that viewers still except the Speed Graphic as a legitimate camera example.

Well, they accept Taco Bell as legitimate food...

[lenser]

Touche and well done, Mark.

[brian d]

Amazing that viewers still except the Speed Graphic as a legitimate camera example.

Umm, Why would'nt they?

[Paul Bujak]

I have a Speed Graphic and I eat lunch at Taco Bell every Saturday. It's all sort of traditional.

[sun of sand]

Too bad that was one of the worst commercials of the night
it was painful
that dumb doritos dog collar commercial was even worse
Doritos must have put a lot of $ into their spots and all but the touch my momma one were dumb

[Ivan J. Eberle]

My Super Graphic looks like a lunchbox (but it's even cooler than the Secret Squirrel LB I carried to school in the second grade).

[r_a_feldman]

Amazing that viewers still except the Speed Graphic as a legitimate camera example.

Certain objects become iconic. For trains, it is the EMD F7 (e.g., Santa Fe Super Chief). The Speed Graphic is the iconic press camera -- think of all of the classic movies where they are used by the Press. I also remember seeing a recent fashion or cosmetics ad where the photographers jockying around the celebrity are using Speed Graphics.

Bob