Originally posted by MarkJerling Did you give up, or try to argue the point?
Yeh Mark, I gave up. Were I am now in my live I have learned you cannot argue or reason with ignorant, hardened-in-their-view or very religious people. They do not understand the meaning of the word logic.
Originally posted by TheOneAndOnlyJH A couple years ago I was stopped from entering a stadium for Disney on Ice because my K-3 on a sling looked too professional
I have come across this many times only to find out later the people in charge of the gates make up the rules on the run. Give them a uniform and a badge and they will act like the Gestapo. Not all but some of them anyway.
Originally posted by TheOneAndOnlyJH I hate when people are flashing away with their cell phones distracting everybody
Remember the days of the compact point and shoots before mobile phones started to take over ? Remember the days of sold out events at stadiums (for the overeducated "stadia") at night or bright sunny days when in the stands flashes went off a million times in a futile attempt to shoot the action miles away ? They did
not know there was a way to turn off the flash. They did not understand: A) the flash on these cams was too week to be any good and B) the flash came at a cost by wasting battery juice.
These were or are now the same sort of people who, these days, would never purchase a DSLR. If it was too difficult for them to master a simple point and shoot then it will be next to impossible for them to work a modern DSLR now.
Originally posted by clickclick Going back to touring in the late 70's/early 80's with first my K1000 and then an ME Super, I quickly came to the conclusion that if they thought they were loosing post card/photo sales from their gift shop, they were more likely to tell you to stop.
This was precisely my thinking then. But now this will not be the case anymore. With Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Co. the postcard industry has been decimated. All the more a reason why the officials at the Spanish riding school should have a dim view of all the mobile phone clickers if they want to protect postcard sales.