I've been re-watching the early seasons of the X-Files on Netflix lately, and on a couple of episodes Mulder uses the following camera at a crime scene:
http://camerasinthemedia.tumblr.com/image/45981808560
Googling turned up the picture, but no further information - so I thought someone here might be able to ID it. Possibly it's just a prop for the show? Pretty interesting-looking, anyway!
It is a good example of a prop master outdoing Polaroid's design.
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That's what I suspect, too, but Mulder just uses it casually in the scenes - no attention is drawn to the camera in any way, and it doesn't seem to be special. So, it seemed unlikely the prop team would put any effort into cobbling something together, instead of just providing an off-the-shelf camera.
It's a camera Mulder confiscated from space aliens. The aliens used it for anal probe photos but he modified it for general purpose use. Careful... you might get flashed.
It reminds me of the Spectra type Polaroids that the police used back then. The fingerprint unit had one for doing closeups that looked kinda like that.
It looks like the same camera that Drew Wiley used to take a picture of Big Foot.
Ha! :-D
It's a Wisner with a lifetime guarantee. Ooops.
I remember looking this up earlier in the year, its a camera built for dentists IIRC, I'll try and find the model
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