Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You also must consider cultural biases. Not every country, or shooting local, in the world is affluent enough to have "camera overload". And there are also "stealthy" means of using a camera that does not flash its reflection...... ============================================================ - --- Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> wrote: > This strikes me as silly. This afternoon I walked down > the Duke of > Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg (a tourist > mecca for reasons > that are lost to me, but my office is right there). I > saw dozens, if not > hundreds, of cameras. Aside from the P&S and digitals, > nearly all of them > were black or varying shades of plastic. I don't think > that "society" even > registers the color of a camera body. > > C > > > At 07:13 PM 2/21/02 -0800, you wrote: > > Society, as a whole, is so camera conscious these > days, > >that some professionals have concluded that someone > seeing > >a photographer with a black body is instantly on guard, > >because, if he or she is using a black body, he MUST be > a > >member of the media. Therefore, the subject is > immediately > >on guard. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html