Funny Comments you get when you have your "big" camera

[Garbz]

And if they ask what do you do when you need to zoom. Hold your camera up to them and then take a step closer

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[DeepSpring]

ahhhhhhhhhh I hate when people try to focus when its on auto!!! Especially with my 50mm cause my focus is a tad messed up. That creeking grinding sound kills me every time.

"How do you zoom"
"I walk"
"Oh....... well mine has 3x zoom "

[rmh159]

That creeking grinding sound kills me every time.

LOL I know what you mean. Just reading that post made me tense up like I do when someone zooms my prime. I need to start freaking out more on people that do that.

[DSLR noob]

Three words "full time manual" I love Canon USM motors.... I just need to get a lens with one haha.

[-spam-]

Wow, how did I miss this thread? Thanks to Garbz for letting me know about it.

Ok, Ive got a few.

Walking around town with my Yashica

Her: Wow, that thing looks really old.

Me: yeah, it is I guess

Her: Can I have a look at it?

Me: Sure (I pop the viewfinder hood open and hand her the camera)

(She then turns it sideways and puts her eye to the sports viewfinder thing.)

Her: I think its broken, I cant see anything.

Ok, so that wasnt really a comment about me with the camera. But i thought it was amusing at the time.

Walking around with my dads 70-200 f4L on my old 400D

Her: (looking at the white lens) Are you a pro photographer?

Me: No, its my dads lens

Her: Oh ok, is your dad a pro photographer?

On a recent flickr meet outside a supermarket

(Girl from the supermarket comes out saying something about how we arent supposed to be taking photos of the store)

Her: Although, when i saw your big cameras.... well lets just say, its not like i wasnt impressed. Because i sure was.

We thought that was pretty funny.

[Garbz]

Oh snap. Now I'm annoyed that I left early. I would have loved as I usually do to let her know about our rights to photograph something which is visible by the public. If she was impressed did you chat her up

[-spam-]

If she was impressed did you chat her up

I wanted to but a little birdy in my head told me that wouldnt be such a good idea. But she did look alright and was around my age

Funny thing was, we were standing on the footpath, not even in the store.

[Garbz]

Now if paying attention to the little birdy wasn't a sign of crazyness

[THORHAMMER]

I just keep getting honks by cars when I am out with the tripod day or night. I am thinking about wearing more official looking clothing so I can sort of eminate a government official kind of look. That plus a name tag holder around my neck with a business card, and Ill bet the cops would let me in the station to shoot !!!!

Seriously though I get a lot of jerks who just come up to me to ask me to NOT take their picture, or that I should not be taking pictures there.
So, usually I take their picture before they leave my sight.

ALso, I keep thinking I will have a horrible expirience with a security guard, but I keep shooting even inside retail stores and to this day not even been asked to stop. Only once inside a book store with my family. Go figure..

[Alex_B]

jerks who just come up to me to ask me to NOT take their picture,

hmm, that seems to be a US-kind of thing? It hardly ever happened to me ...

[avcabob]

I didn't think of this before as it was with a video camera, and not even a big one at that, and nothing was really said, but me and some friends put a rubber ducky in the middle of the road and tried to video tape cars running over it, but instead, they would slow down and at one point there was even a line of about 4 or 5 cars just stopped as if they thought we were filming something important and didn't want to get in the way. The best part is me and my friends were about 13 or 14 at the time.

[THORHAMMER]

its always wanna be gangster types... and yes we are overridden with the wanna be's....or over zealous vigilante types, also too many of them.

I've come to the conclusion that lots of people are just stupid.

[Sw1tchFX]

Seriously though I get a lot of jerks who just come up to me to ask me to NOT take their picture, or that I should not be taking pictures there.

Pretty much.

[DSLR noob]

Today someone told me that I should've used my video feature to capture the moment instead of pictures. I told them my Rebel XT doesn't have video. They said "wow.....(pause for looking over the camera)..... what an obsolete camera, we have to get you up to date, I bet it only has like 2 megapixels"
Luckily one of my friends who had heard about the camera from me before went "It's pretty advanced but it's optimized for still photos, not video, trust me, it looks better this way." I was happy because my friend spared both me and the other person a long lecture on SLRs.

[Garbz]

hmm, that seems to be a US-kind of thing? It hardly ever happened to me ...

Yeah this clearly must be. In Australia it's pretty much the opposite. With -spam- in Bulimba the other day we walked past and stopped at a construction site and one of the workers saw us, leant on his shed and said, "What aren't you going to take a picture of me?". Or at the labour day much "Common mate get one of us we're front page material." Or at southbank after I overheard some girl talking about our cameras and I said "Want your picture taken?", she ran off and came back a minute later and said "Uh actually yeah".