William Robb wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" > >>>Enjoy living in the Fourth Reich >> >> My advice is to stock up on collectible spoons while you can... > >Maybe we should melt our cameras down and make them into collectible spoons, >since we aren't going to be allowed to use them in the not to distant >future.
One of the annoying things about the new anti-photographer authoritarianism is that it generally targets users of large, conspicuous cameras; the last thing any terrorist would use. The only incident I know of in which a real prospective terrorist was caught (in Victoria Station, London, IIRC) involved the use of a phone camera... As anyone with an ounce of sense could have predicted. The thinking of the thugs with badges undoubtedly goes like this: A real terrorist is almost certainly going to use as inconspicuous a camera as possible, but if he does no one will blame me if I miss it. A person with an SLR and a big lens is infinitely *less* likely to be a terrorist... but if he is a terrorist and I miss him I'll get vilified in public and private for letting him get away with it. Therefore, even though someone with a big, conspicuous camera is vastly less likely to be a threat to the public, he's a vastly greater threat to my job than a real terrorist with an iPhone camera. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
