I find it quiet ironic, it's thought that the average city dweller has his image taken upwards of 200 times per day unbeknownst to them (read it somewhere). Norm
From: Ralf R. Radermacher > People have become much touchier. And it's getting worse by the day. Years ago, we used to be the nice guy with the camera. The first blow came when the Belgian judicial system failed catastrophically which led to the Dutroux affair in 1995. That's when we turned into monsters who stalk innocent children on playgrounds. Next, in 1997, an estranged British housewife lost her life in a car-chase with a bunch of papparazzi, in Paris. That's when we became buggers who kill beautiful innocent princesses. Then, there was 9/11. We've been treated as potential terrorists since then. Last year, there was an enormous uproar, here in Germany, about Google Streetview. The Germans and their politicians fought bitterly for the privacy of their hedges, garden fences, and street-side curtains. In a move to calm things down, Google kindly offered to blur the pictures of individual houses if the people living there requested this. The German press reported this as a *right* and an *obligation*, and since then every Hans and Franz thinks that he can forbid all street photography in his burrow. What next? I really don't mind any longer. My K-5 is now taking photos of my old radios. They look nice, sit still and don't complain. Ralf -- 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.
