Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 19:23 26/03/1997 GMT, Arnold Don Abravanel wrote: >I read in the Los Angeles Times 3/26/97 that a >photographer John Trotter was badly beaten when he >photographing children. A group of 8-12 men demanded his >film and began beating him. He wandered into the wrong >neigborhood, and is now in the hospital at UC Davis >Medical Center in Sacramento. He works for the Sacramento >Bee. He says he can't remember anything. Always be >careful. When I was walking into hot Parisian suburbs, I just carried a couple of cheap 35mm plastic cameras (there are some good ones), or a couple of Ilford B&W film-in cameras, dressed up to run. Sometimes an old Rolleiflex TLR with a cable release hidden in the pocket was nice by such occasions. The Rollei is a very discreet street camera. I have never really believed in the Leica folklore expressed in the brochures, and also by a member of the group the other day, saying that <<...this is what the Leica enables because it's so easy to use, it becomes transparent.>> The same member was right, of course, stating that <<if you are a thief and are 'taking' his picture, he might as well 'take' your camera>> ...or beat you. There are no 'wrong' neighborhoods, just unlucky, or stupid photographers. And the misery, of course. Oddmund - --------------------,,^..^,,----------------------- I bhfad uainn go le/ir an drochrud... Djalli qendrofte larg prej te gjithe nesh... Far from us all be the evil thing... Oddmund Garvik garvik@i-t.fr