Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-18 Thread steve harley
on 2014-01-18 2:49 Steve Cottrell wrote Had a thought - a better way of doing it would be to secrete the camera into the end of a (say) a large dark colored handbag with an aperture fashioned at one end. Place the bag in a shopping cart with the camera facing forward face it sideways, place it

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-18 Thread Bob W
On 18 Jan 2014, at 18:22, John wrote: > >> On 1/17/2014 6:23 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: >>> On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-18 Thread John
On 1/17/2014 6:23 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up you would most likely use as a spy. Easy. A GoPro. Quick wal

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: >OK! Now we're gettin' somewhere... that's almost devious. Had a thought - a better way of doing it would be to secrete the camera into the end of a (say) a large dark colored handbag with an aperture fashioned at one end. Place the bag

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-18 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: >OK! Now we're gettin' somewhere... that's almost devious. Love it. >Have you worked on any of those candid camera/to catch a >scumbag/entrapment kind of shows?? Yup. It was a few years ago, we filmed covertly on a bus - it was to see

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: > On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up >>you would most likely use as a spy. > > Easy. A GoPro. Quick walk down the aisle with a wide angle full HD

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Bob W wrote: > On 17 Jan 2014, at 16:09, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> >> >> Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up >> you would most likely use as a spy. >> > > Of course nobody on the PDML could ever possibly be now, or ever have

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
Hmmm... interesting thanks! On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:57 PM, John wrote: > Maybe http://www.spyville.com/button-camera.html > > > On 1/17/2014 11:09 AM, Christine Nielsen wrote: >> >> OK, not James Bond, CIA, wikileaks kind of spying. (Just checking to >> see if the NSA is really listening.

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
Thanks for the suggestion... Yes, I think the images are just for scraping the pricing info from... as long as you can read it, it's good. The trick is toting a camera through the store without being spotted... management will ask you to leave otherwise... On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Aahz M

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
Yes, they mine the video/photos for the pricing info... I'm not sure who does that...it doesn't have to be beautiful camera work, just clear enough to read... Thanks. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Christine, > The DA15/4 on the K-3 wouldn't be to bad. > Not much focus wo

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 17/1/14, Christine Nielsen, discombobulated, unleashed: >Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up >you would most likely use as a spy. Easy. A GoPro. Quick walk down the aisle with a wide angle full HD quicktime movie as the result. See both sides in one shot. Simp

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Bob W
On 17 Jan 2014, at 16:09, Christine Nielsen wrote: > > > > Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up > you would most likely use as a spy. > Of course nobody on the PDML could ever possibly be now, or ever have been a spy. That would be unthinkable. Especially not

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread John
Maybe http://www.spyville.com/button-camera.html On 1/17/2014 11:09 AM, Christine Nielsen wrote: OK, not James Bond, CIA, wikileaks kind of spying. (Just checking to see if the NSA is really listening...) More of the retail variety. Think "double O seven eleven." A friend is working with a

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014, Christine Nielsen wrote: > > Your mission, should you choose to accept it: name the camera/set-up > you would most likely use as a spy. Right now, I'd probably pick the Panasonic GM1 with its kit lens. We rented one a couple weeks ago (with a buttload of other m43 bodies/le

Re: OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Bob Sullivan
Christine, The DA15/4 on the K-3 wouldn't be to bad. Not much focus would be needed and the snaps could be discrete. I will tell you from experience photographing fast food drive-thru menu boards, the post processing is a pain in the a--. Get the mystery shoppers to do it. Have them fill out forms

OT: cameras for spies?

2014-01-17 Thread Christine Nielsen
OK, not James Bond, CIA, wikileaks kind of spying. (Just checking to see if the NSA is really listening...) More of the retail variety. Think "double O seven eleven." A friend is working with a company that researches price information at various department and grocery stores for competitor bu