Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why go to France? Just come to Texas, I'll introduce you to all the rudeness and arrogance you need, and the rooms are cheaper. Walt On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:05:17 -0800 Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote: > Jean-Claude Berger wrote: > > > snip > > > One thing you definitely want to keep in mind when photographing in > > > Paris with a view camera is the use of a tripod. The French bureaucracy > > > assumes that someone using a tripod is a professional and using a view > > > camera even for amateur purposes will draw officialdom down on you so > > > fast you won't know what hit you. Ask my assistant. We were able to > > > obtain a permit to use a tripod on the grounds of the Luxembourg Palace > > > (Jardin du Luxembourg) but it took an hour or so and a very helpful > > > woman in the appropriate office. Other places, such as around Notre Dame > > > or Place des Vosges we were flagged. And it would have taken a week or > > > two until we got permits. > > > > -- > > Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) > > Which explains why hand held Leica Photography in Paris is an Art Form > in itself by French photographers alone let alone others. Last night I > took a friend to a camara store to buy a roll of film and he walked out > with a used M6 with 35 nonASPH Sumicron, both black. I said to him " Now > you can go to Paris" the guy behind the counter said "I just got back > (with his Leica M6)" I am in Portland Oregon. > Mark Rabiner