[Leica] Re: Photography in restricted places

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

While in London last September, I took photographs inside Windsor Castle,
and I took photographs of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. Both
places have no photography signs up everywhere. I used my M6 and 35/1.4
ASPH, Fuji MS 100/1000 at 200 and the photos are great.

Jim


At 10:40 AM 8/17/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I found several places on my recent tour of Europe with a "no photos/no 
>videos" policy and in each case there was a shop near the exit with a large 
>selection of slides, prints and videos for sale.  As to the validity of the 
>reason of flash degrading the artifacts, The National Museum in Prague 
>required a small fee to be paid for a sticker I got to put on my shirt that 
>permitted me to photograph without restriction...ostensibly I could have 
>whipped out a set of Normans and blitzed away to my heart's content. 
>
>In a couple of places I just said to myself, I came all this way and I'm not 
>going home empty-handed.  The M6 is *great* for that.  You can see the LED 
>meter arrows from a couple feet away if you hold it just right.  That and 
>using the DOF scale and a wide-angle lens, and I shot a lot of film holding 
>the camera at waist-level tripping the shutter with my thumb.  Thanks to the 
>quiet shutter and lack of tell-tale winding motor I fired away standing just 
>a few feet from the tour-guide.