Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gee I rarely had a problem with police .............. it's called a 280 mm lens I could turn into a 400 or 800mm in the blink of an eye with extenders if required! Step back quickly, don't argue or use any of that crap about "the public have a right to know" etc. when asked and shoot back into the crowd closer than if you were in the middle of it with a 50mm lens! It's called using your common sense and long glass for more than shooting a football game! Trust me if you have never ever been in the middle of this kind of situation? Please consider very seriously what you are going to write and whom you might blame. Do not make grandiose comments or blame without one iota of experince when confronted with a situation like this! Thank you. Yes this situation was in the evening! ERGO: photog probably required flash use? So, it then requires a major amount of simple, read simple! "Common sense" logic to avoid becoming a pain in the ass to the law enforcement officers trying to do their job to avoid an out and out street brawl situation???????? MAYBE? When asked to stop taking pictures.... meaning stop flashing that thing in our faces ........... He, the photog, had a choice, stop flashing or stay and keep being a pain in the ass for the police officers attempting to stop what may or may not have turned into a bigger confrontation than what it was?????? Or they wanted to cope with? There are way too many details missing for anyone to make a "cops bad guys? "Photog bad guy? Blame! "Or his rights stopped!" Or whatever you want to drag-up to make the cops look bad! Get over it, they are not all bad guys some people try to make them out to be! Yep, there are a few bad ones. Just get over it and be glad there are more of them, "GOOD GUYS AND GALS" than the odd stupid one! Why not wait to read what the newspaper and police make as believable statements first, without waving your flag and constitution rights all over the place blaming folks before anyone actually knows the closest thing to the truth that actually occurred?" It would seem reasonable to have all the details first? Isn't it? Seems a fair and reasonable manner before making grandiose statements about what's written in your constitution ? And whom to blame? Cops? Whose job these days, they couldn't pay me a enough to be one of them trying to cope with society of today! Or a photog attempting to do his job and not using one iota of common sense! cheers, Dr. ted