Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Persecuted for using tripod in public
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 17:10:04 -0500

Ken Iisaka jotted down the following:

> I've had similar experience here in Marin in the Tamalpais State Park,
> particularly along Ridgecrest Blvd. where a great number of automobile
> advertisements are shot.  However, I just tell them I'm a weekend
> photographer (which I am) and show them my business card showing my
> employer's name, which is a bank.

Just look the policeman sternly in the eye and announce: "This is a Leica.
The camera costs $2,500 and the lens is $5,395.  Professional photographers
cannot afford equipment like this."

M.

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Martin Howard                     | On the whole, people routinely mis-
Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       | interpret coincidence as correlation,
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