Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Screw 'em. Be *very* polite. Take pen and paper and write down their badge number and then kindly and quietly leave. It really freaks them out. Scott Don Dory wrote: > Lew, > Take a deep breath, smile, chat up officer friendly. You have a strange > camera to the officer. Take off the lens. Set the shutter to bulb > and show > the kind officer that there is in fact film behind the shutter. Explain > that you are a bit daft and prefer obscure German cameras to the more > normal > Japanese digitals. Happens to me every now and then and approached > boldly > and with elan have never had a problem. This weeks PAW was shot at the > Atlanta airport again, no problems from the kind law enforcement folks or > the armed military folks. > > Boldly go where photographers go. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 9/13/06, Lew <lew@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> >> Twice, now, in recent months, my M6 has created problems in that >> security >> or authority types get very >> territorial & stressed when they see it. Once at a crafts fair set up >> in a >> public park and again in a public >> thoroughfare through private property in NYC. Plenty of point & >> shoots in >> evidence hanging from the necks of >> tourists. I feel I'd be better off with a Voitlander body and Leica >> glass >> sometimes. >> -Lew >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)