Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah, Mark, You forgot the wonderful Angeniux lenses. Many a movie you have seen will have been shot with them - and they have even made excellent lenses for (back on topic) Leica's. Or maybe they are now a wholly owned subsidiary of some Bill Gates corporation?? Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark > Rabiner > Sent: May 22, 2000 3:02 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Paris & Tripod > > > Christer Almqvist wrote: > > > > > > > >Laurent SAMINADAYAR wrote, in part: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> in France, for a reason I could not conceive, photography is > > >> forbidden in public palces (railways satation for example). But you > > >> can ask for an authorization at the proper service of Paris mayor. > > > > I don't think a railway station is a public place. It is > private property. > > In France the owner of railway stations is SNCF (Societe National de > > Chemins de Fer). SNCF can tell you what you can do and what you can not > > do on their property, just like you can tell people what to do > / not do in > > your back yard. I guess SNCF argues that if you do not like > what they say, > > then stay away from their property. > > > > Did you read/see The Day of the Jackal written by Frederic > Forsyte? Perhaps > > that inspired the no tripod ruling. If Forsyte had thought of tripods > > instead of crutches, then the Jackal would have had three shots > ......... > > and history might have changed! > ><Snip> > > Those damn tripods! > Here in the usa we have shoppoing Malls where they have to let > anyone pass out > their leaflets! > I just thought the whole French thing would have been pro tripod. > The whole country is Tri this or Tri that.... > "All Gaul is divided into three parts" > Liberty, equality, fraternity, > Red white and blue. > I bet the French INVENTED the tripod. > MY TRIPODS ARE FRENCH! Every single last Gitzo one of them. Make > that Three of > them! 3x3 equals 9!!! > (and my new Magnesium Centre Ball Head is Gitzo!) > The only darn French gear I own! > The only darn French gear they make! Niépce would roll over in > his grave! So > would Daguerre! > Yet this whole photography thing is darn French! > Mark (time to hit the showers) Rabiner > O yes my Balcar pack was made in France. I keep thinking of it as > my Beldar pack! > "My name is Beldar! I am from..... France!" >