Re: [Leica] leica greetings....

["Stegmeyer" <upstream1@mindspring.com>]

I have tried a few times to photograph the long lines in the Post Office
only to be told by Postal "people" that it is against policy!  I have argued
that it is a public place. . .any lawyers out there know what the deal is?

Al Stegmeyer  www.upstrap.com

- ----- Original Message -----
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] leica greetings....


> on 1/4/00 7:21 pm, Kyle Cassidy at cassidy@netaxs.com wrote:
>
> > a while back i was at an Event photographing a politican and at the
Event,
> > photographing the same politician, there's a guy with a contax G2 -- i
> > assume he's a shooter for some local rag, i'm shooting with my m6 and a
> > diana (don't ask me why). but i see this guy w/ the g2 and i'm like,
"hey,
> > another rangefinder dude," so i smile, lift my camera to my eye to grab
a
> > shot of him and his contax and he puts his hand out in front of my lens
> > and says very sternly and matter-of-factly "do not photograph me."
>
> To which the correct 'etiquette' is take the camera away from your eye
(and
> his hand) and then fire the shutter release several times as obviously as
> possible.
>
> I was once photographing in Toronto when a woman who strayed into frame
said
> 'it is illegal to photograph a person in this country without their
> permission'. It bugged me (because it was wrong... even in Quebec, it's
not
> ILLEGAL or even a tort to photograph someone in a public place without
their
> permission... though if you publish the shot you may be liable ... hmmm..
> glad I'm not moving to Montreal, then) so much I wanted to pursue her down
> the street, shooting continually while explaining the ethics and
legalities.
>
> Probably just as well I didn't.
>
> Whereas if someone says nicely 'please don't'... well, you stop, don't
you?
>
>
>
> --
> John Brownlow
>
> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>
>
>