What are the worst words in photography?

Anything to the effect of: "Yeah, hi guys, I was wondering if you could give me advice on which camera I could use to compliment my M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, M8, M9 setup? Maybe an M4-2?"
 
FrozenInTime said:
"Can I see it" : having to explain to my sister's children why they can't see the photo I just took.
It's an old camera that does not have a screen and then to explain what film is :bang:
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Off topic, but: My son when he was three, viewing Super 8 movies of his older sister. "I want to be in the film. I want to now. Put me in the film, Richard."
 
Oh, here comes the Paparazzi...
Is that an analog camera...
Man, you got a lot of cameras there...(I normally shoot with two cameras)
Is that a digital camera...(F2a with motordrive)
When are you going to switch to digital...
What are you doing...??? (standing next to a camera mounted on a tripod)
 
"How many megapixels does it have? How much zoom?"
Once a guy tried to tell me that his compact camera was better than my DSLR because it had zoom and more megapixels...

And some guy working at a Starbucks looked at my Canon EOS 5 which I painted matte black (so no model name or brand, I just told him it was a Canon) and said "yeah i have a Canon too, but mine is an EOS 5, it looks kinda like that one" *points to my friend's rebel 2000*
 
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Some of my friends are always jokingly saying: "Let me see the picture" right after I took it.
The look on one guy's face when I pulled the instant film out of a polaroid back on my Speed Graphic was: "Aaaw, we can't use that joke anymore."

"Does it still work?" (Why carried otherwise? to look cool?)

"Can you still get film for it?" (yes, 35mm isn't that uncommon you know)

"What the **** is that?!" (Yelled in a church no less)

"Wow, that's an old camera!" (I don't think my Epson R-D1 from 2005 is THAT old, though admittedly in "Digital Camera Years" it's practically ancient. I think the Jupiter-3 screwed on confuses people)

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"Minty" - Yes the camera tastes like mint
"Sold As-Is" - It's broken
"Shutter sounds accurate" It's broken
"Never used" - Because it's broken



And "What the Duck" Rocks! :D
 
kutting said:
"Can I see that picture?", "I'm going to have to ask you to delete it" and when told on no uncertain terms that I wouldn't fulfill her requests: "We own the copyright to those images, so you're not allowed to post them on the internet!" from a pompous Production Assistant doing outside broadcast in Singapore.

If the photos weren't so dull I would have posted them on Flickr just to spite her.
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Weirdly enough if you you're on an open set on the street they actually do. But there's better ways to deal with it than that for sure.
 
I was talking to my grandmother one day I told her my friend Tony (a pretty good photographer) had started taking some photos for the local paper.

Her reply was " WOW ! He must have a big camera !"
 
Last weekend, I went into one of those No Camera zones (inside the movie theater). They are very strict about checks, and the guard demanded the battery of my camera (M6).

Me: You know I can still use it without battery
Him: *pauses* then give me the memory card
Me: It's film.
Him: *disbelief* *pause* give me the battery

I opened it up and showed there was no film. That seemed to calm him down.
 
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I'm thinking of selling my M2, because I hardly shoot film these days since I got my DSLR, and I don't think I ever will.
 
Said by a new "A level" photography student when told she would start the course learning to use a film camera, " is that the one that you have to put the pictures in the camera yourself?"
 
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