Hi, Mishka, Yeah, you're right. This past spring, when Stan Halpin was in Toronto, we had a little TOPDML get together with Stan. We were walking around BCE Place, a couple of office towers connected by a huge atrium. Clearly private property.
The security guard came up to us (as we were shooting away), and asked us if we were pros, and why we were shooting. We explained that we weren't pros, but were part of a group of Pentax users. "You mean a club?" "Well, sort of, if that makes you happy." Anyway, he let us stay. Personally, I blame it all on Stan with his 645, and Brendan with his MZ3. They just looked too impressive (the cameras, not the men <g>). As one of the most photographed interiors in Toronto, I guess they have copyright issues to protect, and in any event it's clearly private property, so they can do whatever the hell they want, but I guess my point is (agreeing with Mishka), had we all had p&s's, no one would have given us a second look. In fact, the whole "no one bothers anyone with a p&s" thing is one reason I like my Leica CL so much. To the uneducated eye, it looks just like a p&s. Very unassuming. I can get it into lots of places I could never get an SLR. regards, frank Mishka wrote: > It was a private property. And they had every right to send me packing. > But that's besides the point. > What I was trying to say is that looking "like a pro", or, more generally, > attracting attention, at least in my experience, usually doesn't help, quite > on contrary. The best access one gets with P&S. The farther from P&S your > equipment is , the worse it gets. > > Best, > Mishka. > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
