The following items are NOT ALLOWED inside the festival

[olifaunt]

If you don't support their policies maybe enriching them by buying tickets is the wrong way to go.

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Great rant!

 

[Michael Markey]

I had my camera inspected for the same reason a while ago at a cricket match because of the same regulations. 🙄

I was told no cameras at my local cricket ground a few years ago.
Reason ; Children present .
Had a word with the Chairman and got the ok.

 

[Rob-F]

You mean I can't bring my Miranda with 50mm f/1.8 Auto Miranda lens? I'm not going.

 

[dmr]

They have apparently banned all cameras except phones and tablets at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, citing commercial use and copyright violations.

 

[Archiver]

In 2002 I was working on a documentary of a particular racer who had come out of retirement to race one last year. Traveled the US circuit with the team, shooting video and making images. Half way thru the season, the race series was sold to a new organization, and the contract gave the new organization license to all images and video from that season and the previous few years. So we had to license our own video back from the new race organization for $1000 per minute of footage. Mind you, this is documentary footage we shot, at our own expense, and we couldn't use any of it without paying the new race organization licensing fees. I thought it was bulls**t.

Yeah, that's bull$$$t. Part of my terms of service is that all footage and product belongs to me, not the client. I don't work for large organizations/companies so that's worked out fine for me; not sure what would happen if I was in the running for a contract with Coke or someone like that.

Two times, I've been asked for access, and editing rights, to raw footage. One was by a government-run art gallery, so I declined the job. The profile would have been great, but I stick with my principles. The second time was for a previous client who had been a bit difficult. Again, I declined the job. Amusingly, they brought in someone else who had a completely different style and everyone thought the work was awful, hahaha!

 

[Archiver]

I was told no cameras at my local cricket ground a few years ago.
Reason ; Children present .
Had a word with the Chairman and got the ok.

I can't fathom the ludicrous nature of regs and reasons like this. 'We must protect tha pweshus baybees from tha peedofiles! Let's ban cameras!' :bang:

When I go to AFL football matches, they don't allow professional cameras, although there's no definition of what constitutes 'professional'. So I'm guessing that any large DSLR or mirrorless camera with a huge lens won't get in. I usually go with a tiny Panasonic GM1 with Olympus 45/1.8, or the Panasonic LX10. Super discreet and no one gives it a second look. If I wanted more range, I'd get a pocket travel zoom like the Pana TZ200 or Sony RX100 VI.

 

[Michael Markey]

I can't fathom the ludicrous nature of regs and reasons like this. 'We must protect tha pweshus baybees from tha peedofiles! Let's ban cameras!' :bang:

Sad also .
Some of the parents and grandparents told me that they had no pictures of their kids growing up and playing because of this ban.
I hasten to add that it wasn`t a children`s match I was photographing but "there might be children in the crowd " .