Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jean-Claude Berger wrote: > snip > > One thing you definitely want to keep in mind when photographing in > > Paris with a view camera is the use of a tripod. The French bureaucracy > > assumes that someone using a tripod is a professional and using a view > > camera even for amateur purposes will draw officialdom down on you so > > fast you won't know what hit you. Ask my assistant. We were able to > > obtain a permit to use a tripod on the grounds of the Luxembourg Palace > > (Jardin du Luxembourg) but it took an hour or so and a very helpful > > woman in the appropriate office. Other places, such as around Notre Dame > > or Place des Vosges we were flagged. And it would have taken a week or > > two until we got permits. > > -- > Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) Which explains why hand held Leica Photography in Paris is an Art Form in itself by French photographers alone let alone others. Last night I took a friend to a camara store to buy a roll of film and he walked out with a used M6 with 35 nonASPH Sumicron, both black. I said to him " Now you can go to Paris" the guy behind the counter said "I just got back (with his Leica M6)" I am in Portland Oregon. Mark Rabiner