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[dmr]

I look out the corner of my eye and they're standing their smiling at me."

And ... occasionally you get a shot of them shooting you shooting them. (Look closely.) 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Soylent green is people. ::tap tap:: is this thing on?

 

[ch1]

How does the general public distiquish film users from digital? If I am shooting one of my m/fs or a folder, now that gets comments, people will actually wait, but my 35mm slrs that's different. I try to plan my photos or at least time them so people won't have to pause, some, I know, won't. Maybe this will end this, but its too good it should continue.

This is an interesting question. The other day I was down in Bisbee, AZ playing photo tourist. I was carrying my Nikon F-100 and my wife was toting my Nikkormat EL (sorry, no RF at our AZ house - just in NY).

I went into a shop and the shopkeeper eyed the F-100 (I guess he saw the Nikon logo) and said: "That's a digital camera, isn't it?"

I explained no it wasn't and asked why he thought so. Seems that the body size (it had the battery pack attachment) made him think it was. "Size matters?" 🙄

Funny think is, I had left my Nikon D-100 in the car. When I got back there and looked at it - it's body is SMALLER than the F-100 w/battery pack!

Guess this doesn't really answer Rich's question - but it does say something about people's perceptions of what kind of camera you are totiing.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

> My 7-year-old is only now beginning to accept the fact that when she stares at the back of a Nikon S3, there is no image to be seen. She doesn't like it, but she accepts it.

My 7-year old still can't believe that I use a camera that does not go "Click, PHHHFFT, give me the picture". On a trip to Ritz she announced to the store's contingent "My favorite camera is Polaroid." She'll put up with the 35mm's and then asks "Dad, can you get the Polaroid now?"

 

[Aardvark Aallen]

I have zero expectation that someone would pause for me to take a photo. The picture is my business, not theirs, and common courtesy doesn't even come into play.

In fact, my biggest problem, when taking travel photos is when I've timed a shot so that a passerby will walk into the frame to give the image a human dimension, and the person politely stops and waits for me to take my photograph! Arghh.

And I thought I was the only one with that problem. ....

 

[VinceC]

>>My 7-year old still can't believe that I use a camera that does not go "Click, PHHHFFT, give me the picture". On a trip to Ritz she announced to the store's contingent "My favorite camera is Polaroid." She'll put up with the 35mm's and then asks "Dad, can you get the Polaroid now?"<<


My girls lead sheltered lives. They don't know there are any cartoons on TV on Saturday mornings, and they don't know about Polaroids.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Bad News: No More Cartoons on Saturday Morning. One network Simulcasts Nickelodean on Saturday, but that's it.

I had a friend who told his girls that the "Musical truck going down the road with the kids chasing it is just playing its radio loud". I sent a dollar in letter explaning Ice Cream Trucks to them.

I have some Sonar OneSteps in the basement...Can convert to 600 speed...