Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Steve,It isn't a matter of law, just common sense. The uniformed guy can > on > a whim detain me for thirty minutes therefore if what I am doing can wait, > I > will be gracious not confrontational. The rules change if I was taking > pictures of some uniformed sod beating the $*&^ out of a citizen. But > then, > I might want one of those new devices that send my pictures to a remote > server so even if my camera is taken the images are somewhere else. > > Cheers. > Once all the photographers and other people are having their pictures beamed away safely as they expose them we'll find lots of footage of very smiling polite policeman showing lots of authoritarian restraint. Why? They are being now quite literally "exposed". Or captured. That not the case when the film or card can be ripped right out of the camera on site. And then baked in a cake. Inserted into pudding. Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com