samoksner
Who stole my light?
I've been shooting quite a bit of theater, big stage, black box, improve, all sorts of stuff, but one incident recently left me a bit in shock.
It's dress rehearsal, and I'm taking some shots with the m6, just for fun in the hallway of the actors before the actual performance, which I'll shoot in digital, and one of the producers comes up to me and asks me about camera stuff, he had been taking some shots of the plays on his point and shoot... bla bla bla...
Before we head inside the theater to shoot, I ask to take a photo of him with the Leica. I take my shot and he says: "make sure to turn off that shutter sound for the performance."
I of course tell him that their is a real shutter in these cameras, you can't turn off the sound, it's a mechanical sound. He doesn't understand and tells me "yea... in the menu options..." I explain the mechanics of modern cameras ad such, but i was a bit disappointed that someone a bit more artistically inclined would think that all cameras were point and shoot.
He did give me a bit of a stink eye the whole night, i was shooting with a D700, which is not exactly known for it's discreteness, it's a nice sound, but a loud one. He did however change his mind when i emailed him some samples the next day!
Anyone else get similar reactions from people?
It's dress rehearsal, and I'm taking some shots with the m6, just for fun in the hallway of the actors before the actual performance, which I'll shoot in digital, and one of the producers comes up to me and asks me about camera stuff, he had been taking some shots of the plays on his point and shoot... bla bla bla...
Before we head inside the theater to shoot, I ask to take a photo of him with the Leica. I take my shot and he says: "make sure to turn off that shutter sound for the performance."
I of course tell him that their is a real shutter in these cameras, you can't turn off the sound, it's a mechanical sound. He doesn't understand and tells me "yea... in the menu options..." I explain the mechanics of modern cameras ad such, but i was a bit disappointed that someone a bit more artistically inclined would think that all cameras were point and shoot.
He did give me a bit of a stink eye the whole night, i was shooting with a D700, which is not exactly known for it's discreteness, it's a nice sound, but a loud one. He did however change his mind when i emailed him some samples the next day!
Anyone else get similar reactions from people?
