Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:35 PM 11/15/00 -0700, Paul Arnold wrote: >Mark, > >Based on my experience I respectfully disagree as to the invisibility of the >tripod. For my (prospective) subjects the tripod has screamed CAMERA HERE -- >BEWARE. > >But perhaps my experience is unique among more experienced shooters. > >-- Paul It has been my experience that people in front of a camera on a tripod, ignore the whole thing. People, however, go out of their way to NOT walk in front of your tripod. How do they know the front? By the way you are facing. Try this. Set up a tripod and camera, regardless of camera type, and have the camera face one way, and you stand and face the opposite way. People will go out of their way to go behind you (in front of the camera), or they will pause, duck and run, then apologize. But in either case, folks that are "already" in front of the camera on a tripod, are oblivious to the fact that their photograph is being taken. But not true if you stand there and raise a camera to your eye. IMHE, Jim