Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nope, not here. We have a local music festival called Jubilee Jam! (or Jam Ya'll! for the locals). Anyway, the promoters specifically limit cameras to "non-professional" cameras. Strangely, I've never had any trouble with my M system. I wonder what would happen, though, if I brought the Canon 40 D with a big zoom? Peace, Frank Farmer Jackson, Miss. On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Chris Saganich wrote: > Yea, I was witness to a similar event last Thursday. Richie Havens > played a free concert in downtown Brooklyn in a small plaza. The > coordinators asked that concert goers to restrict taking photographs > to the first two (or three) numbers, (ie crowing around the stage > being annoying with big cameras for the whole show.) They were > explicit in citing those "professional cameras with the large lenses" > as being of most concern. For the most part people came to the stage > snapped a couple picts and went back to their seat, except one guy, > who after about 6 or so songs was politely asked to finish-up. Well > what a fuss he made, bla, bla, public place, I'm not a professional, > and refused to move. Like out of spite switched his camera to burst > mode or something and became even more confrontational. The the > concert coordinators had no real authority to remove the guy from a > public place so they dropped it. I noticed he eventually became bored > and decided enjoying Havens was better then photographing him. > > Question: This restriction of "professional cameras with big lenses" > seems to be a new policy around here > > > At 01:51 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote: > >> I wasn't going to post this, because I figured someone else would. In >> the 206 comments to Hawk's initial blog post (when I went to it) one >> was from someone who proported to be one of the two SFMOMA employees >> who escorted the photographer from the premises. He stated that Mr. >> Hawk was asked to stop photographing ten times not for taking photos >> in the atrium, but for what the employees believed was perching on a >> balcony and taking a photograph down a staff members amply filled >> blouse. Whether or not this was actually the case (to the untrained >> eye a large aperture wide angle lens at the appropriate angle for >> capturing a large room can probably look like a super-telephoto >> pointed in a strange direction) it sounds like a reasonable starting >> point for a flare-up. It also appears from reading a few of his blog >> posts that he can be a confrontation waiting for an event. And the >> fact that he continued photographing after being asked to stop ten >> times suggests to me not that the atrium of SFMOMA was in such >> desperate need of being photographed at that exact moment, but that >> he was looking for a fight. >> >> There are photographs that it's a journalists duty to go to the mat >> to get. The already well photographed atrium of SFMOMA probably >> isn't, IMHO, one of those. >> >> kc >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Chris Saganich, M.S. > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > chs2018@med.cornell.edu > http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ > Ph. 212.746.6964 > Fax. 212.746.4800 > Office A-0049 > > > > > > > > > "I am the radiation" > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >