[Leica] Why we all should buy an Alpa :-)

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

Just make sure to apply for a permit to use said tripod in the major
metropolitan markets or there could be a hefty fine coming your way.
NYC and Philly both enforce tripod permits aggressively. I've been
questioned by the police in both cities and only because I was a
student working on a school project, was I not fined but warned instead.

This is why I love monopods. No legislation which controls their use.

Phil Forrest


On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:38:29 -0500
Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> That's what everybody thinks Tina but I've had experience in just the
> opposite direction. My camera on the tripod people totally ignore me.
> Its like I'm a surveyor  or engineer or something. The very nature of
> hand held photography lies in unobtrusiveness and I have found you
> walk in the room with a camera and all eyes are on you. But if you
> are standing in the middle of it with a camera on a tripod they could
> care less. Its like you're just doing a job and not trying to put
> anything over on anybody.  NOT being at all sneaky. I've been saying
> this for years as I've experienced it time and time again. A tripod
> makes you invisible. You are a person at work not a person sneaking
> around trying to fool people. People walk right up to you as if you
> are in a glass booth and look right in the camera. You go lick they
> shrug their shoulders and walk away. You've not stolen their soul.
> 
> A camera under an honest tripod planted firmly on the ground a makes
> you invisible in plain sight.
> Hand held photography makes you kid yourself into thinking you're not
> the center of attention with all eyes really are on you. That's how
> I've expensed it.
>