OliMonster
Member
I very nearly had a run-in on Saturday when I was strolling around the city centre. I knelt to get a shot of an old folding Kodak on a market stall, and the lady running it got concerned that I was taking pics of her work. I just explained to her exactly what I was taking a picture of, showed her my M6, then we had a lovely chat about photography for a while. Turns out she does most of her shooting with a Pentax 6x7, so we were discussing our anachronistic tendencies. Looking back, it was probably a bit foolish of me to be photographing a photographer's stall, but hey, hindsight is 20/20, right? :bang:
If I'm confronted by Sweaty Joe Public, and it's been said before, I'll tell them I'm very sorry, I'm just testing this clapped-out old camera I got recently. "I'm not even sure it works." It works 90% of the time, every time.
Leicas are a bit funny like that - if someone knows what it is, they'll generally know exactly what it's capable of and exactly what I'm doing with it, and with a passing "nice camera" they'll let me crack on. If they don't, it just looks like some knackered old contraption and they wonder why I'm still stuck in the dark ages.
If I'm confronted by Sweaty Joe Public, and it's been said before, I'll tell them I'm very sorry, I'm just testing this clapped-out old camera I got recently. "I'm not even sure it works." It works 90% of the time, every time.
Leicas are a bit funny like that - if someone knows what it is, they'll generally know exactly what it's capable of and exactly what I'm doing with it, and with a passing "nice camera" they'll let me crack on. If they don't, it just looks like some knackered old contraption and they wonder why I'm still stuck in the dark ages.
OliMonster
Member
Except Roger was talking about Parisians
In the rest of France, you can always spot them a mile away
+1
In England, we tell French jokes. In France, they tell Parisian jokes.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Exactly. In Brittany, they say of second home owners, "Mieux un anglais qu'un parisien" -- "Better an Englishman than a Parisian."Except Roger was talking about Parisians
In the rest of France, you can always spot them a mile away
Cheers,
R.
Yodhan
Newbie
Carrying an older camera has made things a lot easier. When I used to carry my D200 around, I would get a lot more questions. Now that I carry either a Yashica Electro 35 or a Canon QL17, most of the questions I get are about the camera, not what I am doing.
If I do get asked, I just say 'I'm a photographer.' If they require any more explanation than that, I figure they will be more trouble than it is worth trying to explain it being a hobby and why I am wherever I am, doing whatever I am doing.
If I do get asked, I just say 'I'm a photographer.' If they require any more explanation than that, I figure they will be more trouble than it is worth trying to explain it being a hobby and why I am wherever I am, doing whatever I am doing.