RE: [Leica] Paris & Tripod

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Ah, Mark,

You forgot the wonderful Angeniux lenses. Many a movie you have seen will
have been shot with them - and they have even made excellent lenses for
(back on topic) Leica's.

Or maybe they are now a wholly owned subsidiary of some Bill Gates
corporation??

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: May 22, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Paris & Tripod
>
>
> Christer Almqvist wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Laurent SAMINADAYAR wrote, in part:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> in France, for a reason I could not conceive, photography is
> > >> forbidden in public palces (railways satation for example). But you
> > >> can ask for an authorization at the proper service of Paris mayor.
> >
> > I don't think a railway station is a public place. It is
> private property.
> > In France the owner  of  railway stations is SNCF (Societe National de
> > Chemins de Fer). SNCF can tell you what you can do  and what you can not
> > do on their property, just like you can tell people what to do
> / not do in
> > your back yard. I guess SNCF argues that if you do not like
> what they say,
> > then stay away from their property.
> >
> > Did you read/see The Day of the Jackal written by Frederic
> Forsyte? Perhaps
> > that inspired the no tripod ruling. If Forsyte had thought of tripods
> > instead of crutches, then the Jackal would have had three shots
> .........
> > and history might have changed!
> ><Snip>
>
> Those damn tripods!
> Here in the usa we have shoppoing Malls where they have to let
> anyone  pass out
> their leaflets!
> I just thought the whole French thing would have been pro tripod.
> The whole country is Tri this or Tri that....
> "All Gaul is divided into three parts"
> Liberty, equality, fraternity,
> Red white and blue.
> I bet the French INVENTED the tripod.
> MY TRIPODS ARE FRENCH!  Every single last Gitzo one of them. Make
> that Three of
> them! 3x3 equals 9!!!
> (and my new Magnesium Centre Ball Head is Gitzo!)
> The only darn French gear I own!
> The only darn French gear they make! Niépce would roll over in
> his grave! So
> would Daguerre!
> Yet this whole photography thing is darn French!
> Mark (time to hit the showers) Rabiner
> O yes my Balcar pack was made in France. I keep thinking of it as
> my Beldar pack!
> "My name is Beldar! I am from..... France!"
>