[Leica] Real patriots don't take pictures

[bquinn at sgi.com (Barney Quinn)]

BD,

You're right, but it's a whole lot easier and cheaper to hassle innocent 
people
taking a few happy snaps then it is to protect chemical plants, something 
which
takes a lot of work, expense, concentration, and - gasp - might put you in 
the
position of having to tell a community or a business they can't do just 
exactly
what they want to do.

Barney



"B. D. Colen" wrote:

> Well, actually, if I seriously needed photos of a particular place, and I
> was aware of the way people are being hassled, I might well use a 4x5 on a
> tripod with a darkcloth, wearing a Tilly hat, Mephisto shoes, and a Domke
> photo vest, with a Parker 51 in one pocket , a fifth of single malt in
> another other, with a Leica IIIf hanging around my neck - because who would
> think that a 'bad guy' would be so obvious? Of course I might well have a
> digital camera of some sort inside the 4x5...:-)
>
> Seriously, the whole thing is idiotic - if someone wants these sorts of
> images, they're going to get them. Period. I'd like to see a fraction of 
> the
> time and attention being wasted on making sure that none of us take photos
> of some run down courthouse in East Buttbleep, or the Port Authority Bus
> Terminal applied to securing chemical plants and ports. Until that's done,
> we're screwed - pure and simple.
>
> Back to working on my new website.
>
> On 3/31/06 11:01 AM, "bruce" <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote:
>
> > If that bothers you, Frank, imagine what they get-up-to from outer/
> > inner space (satellites) ................ Google, but far more
> > efficient + telephone listening etc. etc.
> >
> > B.
> >
> > On 31-mrt-2006, at 17:54, Frank Filippone wrote:
> >
> >> I get hassled all the time with a 4x5 view camera.  Why would any self
> >> respecting honest to goodness no-good-nik ever use a 4x5, on a
> >> tripod, with
> >> a dark cloth, taking 10 minutes to shoot 1 piece of film of a
> >> sensitive
> >> subject?
> >>
> >> If I were a no-good-nik, I would use a digital camera from a moving
> >> car to
> >> minimize my exposure.  What is wrong with the official idiots
> >> acting as our
> >> protectors?  How many times I have been chased off shooting a
> >> public place
> >> with my 4x5, to watch some tourist go up and happy snap the same
> >> image?  Why
> >> is one more subversive looking than the other?
> >>
> >> If taking pictures is not approved of, what do our elected
> >> officials think
> >> of the thousands to millions of pictures already taken of the
> >> building?
> >> Amateur pictures, professional pictures, printed pictures,
> >> newspaper images,
> >> even building plans.... they are all public already...
> >>
> >> Maybe it speaks to the relative brightness of our officials versus the
> >> brightness of the bad guys.  I have yet to hear of a terrorist cell
> >> getting
> >> caught because they took a picture of anything.......
> >>
> >> Frank Filippone
> >> red735i@earthlink.net
> >>
> >>
> >>
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