Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Years ago, Yael Joel, then a photographer for Life Magazine, told me that if you want to photograph a controversial event, use the cheapest looking camera you can find. At the time he was shooting a lot of Vietnam War protests. The police stopped and hassled all those photographers using expensive looking Rolleis, Leicas, Nikons, and Canons but never questioned people using old Kodak Brownie Hawkeyes or Instamatics. He had an old gutless box camera with an automatic 35 mm camera inside. I believe it was a Robot. He could stand on the sidelines of a protest and snap away, literally putting the camera in people's faces, without any comment from police. Don't blame the TSA for stopping that guy in the hoodie. That long lens could well be a RPG launcher. It's been done before. Larry Z