Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I get hassled all the time with a 4x5 view camera. Why would any self respecting honest to goodness no-good-nik ever use a 4x5, on a tripod, with a dark cloth, taking 10 minutes to shoot 1 piece of film of a sensitive subject? If I were a no-good-nik, I would use a digital camera from a moving car to minimize my exposure. What is wrong with the official idiots acting as our protectors? How many times I have been chased off shooting a public place with my 4x5, to watch some tourist go up and happy snap the same image? Why is one more subversive looking than the other? If taking pictures is not approved of, what do our elected officials think of the thousands to millions of pictures already taken of the building? Amateur pictures, professional pictures, printed pictures, newspaper images, even building plans.... they are all public already... Maybe it speaks to the relative brightness of our officials versus the brightness of the bad guys. I have yet to hear of a terrorist cell getting caught because they took a picture of anything....... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net