Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I seriously needed photographs of a sensitive and secret type place I'd have the money to bribe a CIA type.. How about your new girlfriend on the Subway, BD? B. D. Colen wrote: >Well, actually, if I seriously needed photos of a particular place, and I >was aware of the way people are being hassled, I might well use a 4x5 on a >tripod with a darkcloth, wearing a Tilly hat, Mephisto shoes, and a Domke >photo vest, with a Parker 51 in one pocket , a fifth of single malt in >another other, with a Leica IIIf hanging around my neck - because who would >think that a 'bad guy' would be so obvious? Of course I might well have a >digital camera of some sort inside the 4x5...:-) > >Seriously, the whole thing is idiotic - if someone wants these sorts of >images, they're going to get them. Period. I'd like to see a fraction of the >time and attention being wasted on making sure that none of us take photos >of some run down courthouse in East Buttbleep, or the Port Authority Bus >Terminal applied to securing chemical plants and ports. Until that's done, >we're screwed - pure and simple. > >Back to working on my new website. > > >On 3/31/06 11:01 AM, "bruce" <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote: > > > >>If that bothers you, Frank, imagine what they get-up-to from outer/ >>inner space (satellites) ................ Google, but far more >>efficient + telephone listening etc. etc. >> >>B. >> >>On 31-mrt-2006, at 17:54, Frank Filippone wrote: >> >> >> >>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>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 >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >