Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > And what the hell is an "antisocial" positioning of a camera? > I mean: What complete idiocy.
All this goes a long way at explaining what the media have made of us photographers and our cameras, over the last two decades, and how the perception of people with cameras has been changed. Gone are the days when people would be glad to have their photo taken and that guy with the camera was generally seen as someone nice. Now, we are the monsters that are sneaking up to innocent little children to satisfy our perverted desires while we're not just chasing another poor young princesses into a terrible death. High time the camera industry had a look at the way the tobacco companies succeded for decades in telling the world for decades what nice, sociable and generally desirable company smokers were. Shouldn't be too difficult to run a little image campaign for photographers. But they'd better hurry. Noone will be buying their big DSLRs anymore, once we'll be reduced to take pictures of the flower pots in our living room... provided no children are in the frame. Just imagine what HCB, Doisneau, Erwitt or any other of the great old street photographers would be faced with, nowadays, in the streets of London, Paris or Washington. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- 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.
