Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ted's answer is blunt, and while it's not the greatest image from mass transit i've evern seen, it's far from the worst also -- i think the rules against photography on trains are silly -- what are we afraid of, that a terrorist will take a picture and use it to plan a job? silly -- if they want to do that they'll use their camera phone and pretend to be talking to aunt martha -- it';s a silly bureaucratic power play, nothing more. This was a problem long before 911-- people think you are invading someone's privacy if you take pictures and they get all officious, the lower the rank, the more they do. Note the reactions of the conductor and the supervisor -- I suspect the supervisor didn't care but felt he had to back up his employee. if you want to shoot pictures on subways, hone your sneaky skills -- learn to shoot without raising the camera to your eye, i shot great stuff in the NYC subways years ago while holding a CL in my lap, f2 and pre-focused. Nobody knows what you are up to. the shutter is quiet, motion is neglegable. Or wear it under a jacket with the lens poking through. The act of holding something to your face is what tips bureaucratic busybodies and everyone else off that photography is taking place. I've found this to be true even when using a Minox, which is why I bought a reflex finder for mine. If you REALLY want to be sneaky, get a Rolleiflex -- big clunky thing but nobody today knows that it's a camera or if they do, they don't know when you click the shutter. It's just a complicated box hanging from your neck and you steady it with your hand against the train's motion from time to time. Nothing more natural. for most purposes a Leica M with a wide angle lens will do nicely -- even carry it hanging off your side with a cable release running up your sleeve if you have to. For God Sake, Erich Solomon was sneaking pictures of world leaders in post-world war I peace conferences by using these techniques, and he had military guards looking for him and had to use glass plates! c trentelman In a message dated 3/13/05 5:09:22 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes: > Sorry mate, "Nope!" Now if you can tell me what the motivating moment was > to > take this picture, like what do you really see here? What was the main > reason for making this exposure. Like what grabbed you in the gut and you > respond... "Yeah that's what I want!" > > Or why do I have the feeling this was just a test to see if the cops came > after you for making an "exposure of some kind?" And if that's the case why > bother it's just wasting your time messing with any of this security stuff. > Simply because anyone who does is missing a few bricks of a full load. > Besides you'll never win the cops have all the cards and they have them > marked with pictures! > >