minor bit of humor...

I went around China with an RB 67 and pentaprism which weighed a ton. Taking shots of children with parental permission, they convinced me that they thought that they were going to be on television - no one would have a camera that big for stills, and in black and white too!
 
JoeFriday said:
that reminds me of the time I handed my nearly new Nikon D70 to my very young niece so she could take a photo of Grandpa.. I ought to dig up that shot and post it because it somehow perfectly shows how a 3 year old sees adults

and yes, everyone in the room was aghast that I let her hold a camera that cost 4 figures
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and here is the aforementioned photo taken by a 3 year old.. she had to rest the camera on the table beacuse it was so heavy, but she's got a future, I tell ya!
 
Great shot ~ knowing who is BEHIND the camera changes everything about how you look at some pictures, heh? Guess that pretty much explains the big grin IN the picture!
 
JoeFriday said:
same thing when I was carrying around my Minox 35PL.. and with it being a scale focus camera that I wouldn't have to use the viewfinder with, people wouldn't even believe that I was taking photos without having it glued to my face
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I love watching a crowd using the digital minis without v/finders. Cameras at arms length, looks like a scene from Revenge of the Zombies. cracks me up every time!!! :D
Might make a good picture, must think about that!! Mono toned deep blue!
 
I took a shot today with my Revue 400 (Vivitar 35) in a bakery, and a guy nearbuy asked me: "Is it digital, it was so quiet?"

"Digital?" Seems to be a pretty standard question these days, regardless of what one is using. I love it when people ask me to "see the picture" after I took a shot of them with Minox or Revue.
 
Two more pics...

Two more pics...

...to the above story of Austin's catastrophe. I ran into the young lady who was taking his picure while he was firing the Zorki. She had a picture album out and flipping through it, I found these pics of my Zorki in the hands of possible disaster.

The exact moment of the percieved breaking of the Zorki...
>>>http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/CVBLZ4/GoK/zorkishooter3-1.jpg

Here's Austin getting one more ["steady now"] shot. (I always knew having that 3/8" tripod bolt surgically embedded in the top of my head would come in handy one day!)
>>>http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/CVBLZ4/GoK/tripodhead-1-1.jpg

:cool:​
 
wlewisiii said:
"Oh a Land camera?" "No, roll film." "Ah, those were nice too." "I like to work for my pictures." He then gave me a thumbs-up and went on his way. It just struck me as interesting to run into someone who associated a folder with polaroid film. Been awhile since I'd seen someone do that... :D
William
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When I got the RB67 all my nieces and nephews wanted to know where the pictures come out. I was actually puzzling where they'd even seen a Polaroid.
 
I spent this weekend shooting pictures at a steam train museum in PA. I had my Zorki-4, my Ansco Speedex, and my Mamiya C220 - - nothing less than 25 years old. More often than not, I found just as many people looking at my cameras as looking at the locomotives. As usual, I got lots of approving and knowing nods from the older visitors, and lots of strange looks from the folks with the digital flash cameras, especially during the conversation I was having with my photographer friend I was visiting about whether I should put the engine part I was metering 2 zones below neutral or just 1... it turns out 2 zones was just right... I developed the negatives this evening.
 
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