Hipsters and hasselblads

[BobD]

Me with Argus C3

Hipster: "Is that a Leica?"
Me: "Yes"

 

[Huss]

How did the Leica thing become a thing anyway?

 

[Sirius Glass]

... but the S2 is a mirrorless Nikon!

Uh the range finder has a mirror.

 

[itsdoable]

... but the S2 is a mirrorless Nikon!

Uh the range finder has a mirror.

Oh, I thought it was a prism.

 

[Colin Corneau]

Hipsters -- nice hats, not much underneath them.

 

[BrianShaw]

Hasselblad is the “Kleenex” of cameras, it seems.

 

[NB23]

y r u so surprised?

Us chinese are never surprised.

 

[BradS]

While sitting in a coffee with a Nikon F2 on the table in front of me...

Harley dude: “is that a Hasselblad”?

Me: “what’s a Hasselblad”?

 

[VinceInMT]

This reminds me of a situation from about 3 years ago. I was taking a Photography 101 class as part of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the assignment was motion and blur. It's important to note that I'm in my mid- to late-60s. I walked to the end of my street and decided to take long exposure and panning shots of cars going by on their way to work. I am there doing my thing with a Minolta SRT-101 on my Linhoff tripod and my Luna Pro Six3 meter hanging from the handle. I have my notebook and am recording the exposure settings for each shot. The next thing I know I have a police officer in my face demanding to know what I am doing. I tell him I am working on an assignment for an art class I am taking at the university. He doubts that and wants to know what I am really doing and what is this equipment. I thought he was joking but he wasn't so I just said it's a film camera on a tripod and that other thing is my light meter. He says something about me not telling the truth and, again, demands to know what I am up to. I take a deep breath and hand him the assignment sheet from my notebook and suggested that he call the professor at the number on it. He glances at it and hands it back and still wants to know what this equipment is. I didn't know what else to tell him and asked that if I was standing here doing the same thing with a phone if that would be suspicious and he said "No." We stood there sort of staring at each other for a moment and them he leaves. It's a good thing he didn't ask for ID since I had none with me.

 

[Colin Corneau]

This reminds me of a situation from about 3 years ago. I was taking a Photography 101 class as part of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the assignment was motion and blur. It's important to note that I'm in my mid- to late-60s. I walked to the end of my street and decided to take long exposure and panning shots of cars going by on their way to work. I am there doing my thing with a Minolta SRT-101 on my Linhoff tripod and my Luna Pro Six3 meter hanging from the handle. I have my notebook and am recording the exposure settings for each shot. The next thing I know I have a police officer in my face demanding to know what I am doing. I tell him I am working on an assignment for an art class I am taking at the university. He doubts that and wants to know what I am really doing and what is this equipment. I thought he was joking but he wasn't so I just said it's a film camera on a tripod and that other thing is my light meter. He says something about me not telling the truth and, again, demands to know what I am up to. I take a deep breath and hand him the assignment sheet from my notebook and suggested that he call the professor at the number on it. He glances at it and hands it back and still wants to know what this equipment is. I didn't know what else to tell him and asked that if I was standing here doing the same thing with a phone if that would be suspicious and he said "No." We stood there sort of staring at each other for a moment and them he leaves. It's a good thing he didn't ask for ID since I had none with me.

Land of the free!!!

 

[GRHazelton]

This reminds me of a situation from about 3 years ago. I was taking a Photography 101 class as part of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the assignment was motion and blur. It's important to note that I'm in my mid- to late-60s. I walked to the end of my street and decided to take long exposure and panning shots of cars going by on their way to work. I am there doing my thing with a Minolta SRT-101 on my Linhoff tripod and my Luna Pro Six3 meter hanging from the handle. I have my notebook and am recording the exposure settings for each shot. The next thing I know I have a police officer in my face demanding to know what I am doing. I tell him I am working on an assignment for an art class I am taking at the university. He doubts that and wants to know what I am really doing and what is this equipment. I thought he was joking but he wasn't so I just said it's a film camera on a tripod and that other thing is my light meter. He says something about me not telling the truth and, again, demands to know what I am up to. I take a deep breath and hand him the assignment sheet from my notebook and suggested that he call the professor at the number on it. He glances at it and hands it back and still wants to know what this equipment is. I didn't know what else to tell him and asked that if I was standing here doing the same thing with a phone if that would be suspicious and he said "No." We stood there sort of staring at each other for a moment and them he leaves. It's a good thing he didn't ask for ID since I had none with me.

Because of the possibility of such situations when out shooting, I try to carry a pdf on photographers' rights found here: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm Bert Krages, in addition to his legal expertise, is a talented photographer. Note that Mr Krages speaks only to US law.
BTW, I wonder what legal authority the police have to demand to see one's ID if there is no accusation of wrong-doing. Sounds too much like the demand "Your papers, please!" a staple of films depicting life in Nazi Germany. Any lawyers out there who can inform us? or is it up to local codes and at the whim of local police. And all too likely such demands may hinge on the color or ethnicity of the "suspect."

 

[Cholentpot]

This reminds me of a situation from about 3 years ago. I was taking a Photography 101 class as part of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the assignment was motion and blur. It's important to note that I'm in my mid- to late-60s. I walked to the end of my street and decided to take long exposure and panning shots of cars going by on their way to work. I am there doing my thing with a Minolta SRT-101 on my Linhoff tripod and my Luna Pro Six3 meter hanging from the handle. I have my notebook and am recording the exposure settings for each shot. The next thing I know I have a police officer in my face demanding to know what I am doing. I tell him I am working on an assignment for an art class I am taking at the university. He doubts that and wants to know what I am really doing and what is this equipment. I thought he was joking but he wasn't so I just said it's a film camera on a tripod and that other thing is my light meter. He says something about me not telling the truth and, again, demands to know what I am up to. I take a deep breath and hand him the assignment sheet from my notebook and suggested that he call the professor at the number on it. He glances at it and hands it back and still wants to know what this equipment is. I didn't know what else to tell him and asked that if I was standing here doing the same thing with a phone if that would be suspicious and he said "No." We stood there sort of staring at each other for a moment and them he leaves. It's a good thing he didn't ask for ID since I had none with me.

Take a photo of the Cop.

 

[mshchem]

Motion and blur, set the self timer then tell the cop he's a pussy! Self portrait assignment would be covered too. Save on film.

 

[NB23]

Mind blown

This reminds me of a situation from about 3 years ago. I was taking a Photography 101 class as part of my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the assignment was motion and blur. It's important to note that I'm in my mid- to late-60s. I walked to the end of my street and decided to take long exposure and panning shots of cars going by on their way to work. I am there doing my thing with a Minolta SRT-101 on my Linhoff tripod and my Luna Pro Six3 meter hanging from the handle. I have my notebook and am recording the exposure settings for each shot. The next thing I know I have a police officer in my face demanding to know what I am doing. I tell him I am working on an assignment for an art class I am taking at the university. He doubts that and wants to know what I am really doing and what is this equipment. I thought he was joking but he wasn't so I just said it's a film camera on a tripod and that other thing is my light meter. He says something about me not telling the truth and, again, demands to know what I am up to. I take a deep breath and hand him the assignment sheet from my notebook and suggested that he call the professor at the number on it. He glances at it and hands it back and still wants to know what this equipment is. I didn't know what else to tell him and asked that if I was standing here doing the same thing with a phone if that would be suspicious and he said "No." We stood there sort of staring at each other for a moment and them he leaves. It's a good thing he didn't ask for ID since I had none with me.

 

[Kodachromeguy]

Land of the free!!!

No, it is land of the stupid, and we have an overwhelming surfeit of it in USA.

 

[Huss]

Motion and blur, set the self timer then tell the cop he's a pussy! Self portrait assignment would be covered too. Save on film.

I like the way you think.

 

[bernard_L]

Doing landscape with C220 on tripod. A group passing by is attracted by the TLR (I understand that the TLR form is popular with onlookers). Asks couple questions. I invite them to look into the WLF.
"Oooh it's in color!"

 

[Ernst-Jan]

Did this with a hipster, Rolleiflex with a nice Maxwell screen....

"Whoa!! What an amazing LCD!"

Should I laugh or cry?

 

[grat]

Right after 9/11, police throughout America thought they were stopping the next terrorist attack, and taking photographs of public buildings was an open invitation to being harassed by well meaning, but terribly ignorant, law enforcement. It's gotten better, but you still run into people who think you must be up to something if you're taking photographs.

 

[Cholentpot]

Right after 9/11, police throughout America thought they were stopping the next terrorist attack, and taking photographs of public buildings was an open invitation to being harassed by well meaning, but terribly ignorant, law enforcement. It's gotten better, but you still run into people who think you must be up to something if you're taking photographs.

You need the most outlandish camera and they won't bother you.

 

[BrianShaw]

You need the most outlandish camera and they won't bother you.

... or stop pointing a camera at a nuclear missile silo and saying that your doing a photographic study in motion!

 

[BrianShaw]

Right after 9/11, police throughout America thought they were stopping the next terrorist attack, and taking photographs of public buildings was an open invitation to being harassed by well meaning, but terribly ignorant, law enforcement. It's gotten better, but you still run into people who think you must be up to something if you're taking photographs.

England also. The Terrorism Act is horribly mis-used against public photography. This is not a political statement, is just a fact.

 

[Bronson Dugnutt]

Apart from having the cops called last month for setting up my Speed Graphic in my back yard, the most harrassment I get is from the neighborhood crankheads who in their altered state:

think you must be up to something if you're taking photographs.

 

[BradS]

....people who think you must be up to something if you're taking photographs.

One need not even be taking photographs. I am fascinated by commercial architecture of the early 1900's and whenever I visit the city, I can almost always count on someone questioning me or stopping and giving me perplexed looks when I'm standing in the sidewalk staring up at the facade of some lovely old bank building.

 

[Cholentpot]

... or stop pointing a camera at a nuclear missile silo and saying that your doing a photographic study in motion!

Funny, I took some photos of a nuke plant this summer. With a Soviet camera...