Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, I'm going to bend over and you may kiss my a double s. Wilber-A professional. I think Ted would be able to make you the same offer. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Persecuted for using tripod in public > Ken Iisaka jotted down the following: > > > I've had similar experience here in Marin in the Tamalpais State Park, > > particularly along Ridgecrest Blvd. where a great number of automobile > > advertisements are shot. However, I just tell them I'm a weekend > > photographer (which I am) and show them my business card showing my > > employer's name, which is a bank. > > Just look the policeman sternly in the eye and announce: "This is a Leica. > The camera costs $2,500 and the lens is $5,395. Professional photographers > cannot afford equipment like this." > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | On the whole, people routinely mis- > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | interpret coincidence as correlation, > email: howard.390@osu.edu | and correlation as causality. > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- > >