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

[Patrick]

If you guys really want to get a date you gotta strap on the 70-200, flash unit, and lumiquest flash softbox
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LOL reminds me of comments I get when I have Gary's Whale tail attached to my Sb-800, "What the Hell is THAT?":lmao:

 

[Battou]

whenever people ask if im shooting film and i say yes [i shoot film 100% of the time, even in conjunction with digital commercial work] they always get really, really surprised. its sad.

people dont know film isnt dead.

Lol, I was snapping off some shots of a gull in a parking lot one day when a guy in a pickup truck hollers

Guy: "is that digital?"

Me: "Hell no"

Guy: "..."

 

[Harmony]

Was at a friend's house while we talked gear (it gets interesting since he's a Nikon user and I'm a Canon user). While we talked, another friend came up to us.

Non-photog guy: how many MP is that?
My friend: 10
Non-photog guy: Does it do video?
My friend: No.
Non-photog guy: Well that's stupid... why don't you buy a video camera and use the stills from that?
Me and my friend: ...

 

[Cruisn]

I had a rentacop ask me what I was doing last night... figured it was obvious.. standing behind a camera on a tripod... but hey. I guess I look like a bad ass lol

 

[Kegger]

I have people ask me the MP of my camera all the time, then go on about how their P&S is better because it has more.

I just tell them, "okay, you just keep thinking that" and go about my day.

 

[Josh66]

Then again, I suspect many of them can't read.

You may be right. An article in USA Today (front page (bottom half) of the 09Jan09 paper) said that 1 in 7 adults in the US can not read. I just can't even comprehend how that's possible...

(couldn't find a link to the article, but you can see a summary of it here.)

 

[jstuedle]

You may be right. An article in USA Today (front page (bottom half) of the 09Jan09 paper) said that 1 in 7 adults in the US can not read. I just can't even comprehend how that's possible...

(couldn't find a link to the article, but you can see a summary of it here.)

Not surprising, in many inner cities, high school graduation rates are around or under 50%, and the classroom chaos that is prevalent is simply not conducive to learning. And many of these brilliant minds will grow up to vote even though they can't read the ballot. I really worry about the country we are handing to my grandchildren.

 

[ianm]

I certainly get odd looks off folks

 

[Battou]

I once had a guy look at my Canon EF with Vivitar 400mm on it and asked:

Guy: "Getting pictures of Mars with that thing?"

Me: " ah...no, it's a long lens but it ain't that long"

Guy: "oh so it's for the nekid women in their apartments"

Me: ... takes print envelope from bag...pulls print

Guy: Holy Sht!!

 

[ianm]

lols - they just have no clue

 

[Battou]

lols - they just have no clue

Guy had to be about my age...Can't say I blame him for the nekid women comment but the rest was just facepalm material.

 

[ianm]

it gets slightly annoying sometimes, but i suppose it's either educate them in what you are doing (which mostly i cant be bothered unless it's a nice young woman ) or just ignore their ignorance.

 

[Chiller]

I got this one Saturday night, when the temperature was -400 with the wind, and I was photographing some night scenes.

"How much do you charge to do my wedding"? Almost spit up a snow cone.

 

[ianm]

and you didn't have a shot at a quote?

 

[icassell]

I am constantly being asked to take pictures of couples at vacation spots. They assume, since I am carrying a dSLR with a long lens, that I know how to take pix. How little they know ...