Kentucky Derby Bans cameras WTF?

I wonder how's the lens length defined if it isn't detachable.

not that it actually matters to me, but I am glad that Rolleiflex's seem to be safe.
 
So I am confused. Cameras were what enabled the FBI and Boston Police to solve the Boston Marathon bombing case in record time. Now cameras are being banned for security reasons? We seem to be moving ever surely towards a police state. Soon the only cameras allowed will belong to the government. This is quickly getting very silly.
 
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Ridiculous. I can see reasons for not allowing large lenses but it makes no sense to limit interchangeable lens cameras.
 
I was there to photograph the Breeders Cup a few years ago. This will insure that I won't be going back. Wish they would pay more attention to trainers drugging horses instead.
 
I wonder if the "security" they are concerned about is their own security in case one of their staff or security group does something stupid and is caught on camera doing it.

This is exactly what the terrorists are trying to accomplish. They have no intention of trying to win in one swoop. They are trying to accomplish their goal by attrition. Piece by piece our freedoms are removed until we have none left. And we do it to ourselves in response to their little bites. They are winning...and we are helping them win.
 
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I wonder if the "security" they are concerned about is their own security in case one of their staff or security group does something stupid and is caught on camera doing it.

This is exactly what the terrorists are trying to accomplish. They have no intention of trying to win in one swoop. They are trying to accomplish their goal by attrition. Piece by piece our freedoms are removed until we have none left. And we do it to ourselves in response to their little bites. They are winning...and we are helping them win.
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Well stated.
 
Pioneer said:
So I am confused. Cameras were what enabled the FBI and Boston Police to solve the Boston Marathon bombing case in record time. Now cameras are being banned for security reasons? We seem to be moving ever surely towards a police state. Soon the only cameras allowed will belong to the government. This is quickly getting very silly.
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Those were security cameras not those horrid "street shooters". :rolleyes:

I'd hope that the Derby has installed a complete security camera system to catch those who are smuggling in a Rebel XT...
 
sepiareverb said:
Those were security cameras not those horrid "street shooters". :rolleyes:

I'd hope that the Derby has installed a complete security camera system to catch those who are smuggling in a Rebel XT...
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Oh no. Some of the things they were showing on TV were from Security cameras, but some of the clearest shots they got of the suspects came from those horrid "streetshooters."
 
It just so happens I covered the Atlanta Steeple Chase last week as an event photographer. I have never seen as many DSLRs in one place, ever. Even back in my film days.
 
So is the TSA bringing all those strip search scanners to the Derby? That way they can check and see if we are bringing in our IIF cameras.

Get a life, who's the Jack who thought up this idea? NO MORE MINT JULIPS FOR ME.

So like Pioneer said, no cameras at the Boston Marathon, the case would still not be solved.
 
Pioneer said:
I wonder if the "security" they are concerned about is their own security in case one of their staff or security group does something stupid and is caught on camera doing it.

This is exactly what the terrorists are trying to accomplish. They have no intention of trying to win in one swoop. They are trying to accomplish their goal by attrition. Piece by piece our freedoms are removed until we have none left. And we do it to ourselves in response to their little bites. They are winning...and we are helping them win.
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Exactly! We're becoming a bunch of idiots with no common sense. If they're concerned about someone smuggling a bomb into the event inside a lens, how about asking the entry gate guys to look through the lens! Geez... they spend all that time looking through backpacks anyway; what's the problem with looking at a lens??

We are becoming a nation of knee-jerk no-common-sense isolationists. Time to start thinking about moving to Canada. Joe... you ready for a mass exodus from down here?
 
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I was never much into horse racing anyway, never actually watched one ever, so I don't really give a damn.

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The only way to get this complete "security" overreaction back into reasonable levels is public boycott of such an event. I take it though, the whole story is not an April fools joke.
 
Al Patterson said:
Get used to it. This will get much worse as the idiots in this country will give up all of their freedom when told it will make them safe. It wont make us safe, and once lost, freedom aint coming back.
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because the Churchill Downs isn't owned by a private company...

oh wait, it is.

seriously some of you people are denser than concrete. this is a private event, they can ban cameras and it has nothing to do with your freedoms, it has to do with the rules they have the freedom to establish as a private company.

if you don't like it, don't support the event. speak with your wallet, not with inane and against the rules political posts on RFF please.
 
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