Kuwait bans DSLR for others than PJs

[M4cr0s]

They are clearly rangefinder-lovers, probably members of this very forum. Time to beat down those evil DSLRs!

http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MzAwMTg4ODg1

Mac

 

[sevres_babylone]

With all the switching to animals and nature, Kuwaiti photography is going to resemble that in Canadian consumer photography magazines.

 

[raid]

Confucius said: "Lack of a RF culture can result in such laws."

Did he?

 

[3rdtrick]

Well I guess the price of those Titanium M9s will go up...

 

[Steve_F]

With all the switching to animals and nature, Kuwaiti photography is going to resemble that in Canadian consumer photography magazines.

....and standard UK consumer photography magazines.

Steve.

 

[drinkingeye]

[URL="http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/11/kuwait-times-issues-retraction.html"

 

[M4cr0s]

Fixed drinkingeve's link. Interesting read!
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/11/kuwait-times-issues-retraction.html

 

[drinkingeye]

thanks M4cr0s! It seems I'm too stupid to insert a link here ;-) cheers, mauro

 

[chrismoret]

It was a hoax, according to BJP

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1900084/kuwait-bans-dslrs-public

 

[user237428934]

I read that the newspaper that announced this (kuwait times) already apologized for delivering such a nonsense without checking the sources. We all believed it, because it was on the website of a newspaper and not just a blog.

 

[Colin Corneau]

Fact checking, fact verification...Journalism 101 type stuff.

Forget "New Media" how about remembering what Old Media had to learn 50 years ago?

 

[damien.murphy]

Fact checking, fact verification...Journalism 101 type stuff.

Forget "New Media" how about remembering what Old Media had to learn 50 years ago?

Hmm.. you would wonder in this case though. It would appear, dslr-ban aside, Kuwait is not a very friendly place towards photography..