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

[-spam-]

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?".

Thats right, the "worlds worst construction site" guy. He was classic

 

[lifeafter2am]

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

Unfortunately you are so very right!

 

[jstuedle]

I forgot about this one. Cathy and I were on a spur of the moment road trip. We live in Indiana and were in Alabama headed for Mississippi. We stopped by a joint that one of the bands I shoot was supposed to play at when on the road this summer. It was mid-day in the middle of the week and the place was empty. A pickup truck drives through the lot to get to the bar around back. Just for grins I took a couple shots of the place to email the band, and the driver of the truck come strolling up to me. He states he can't let me take pix of him or his truck. The first thing I thought of was he didn't want his boss or wife to know he was at the bar. Then this guy goes into a long and protracted story about how he is on the wittiness protection program and can't let his I.D. be revealed. Right, I vote for the wife theory.

 

[michaelk]

Much of this reminds me of one of the reasons I like to photograph in the middle of nowhere if possible. However, I shoot 4x5 and every once in a while someone will come up to me who is genuinely interested in my camera, etc. Sometimes I will let them look through the ground glass and they are usually a bit amazed.
Then they ask where the batteries and memory card go and ruin the whole thing.....

 

[Sw1tchFX]

Much of this reminds me of one of the reasons I like to photograph in the middle of nowhere if possible. However, I shoot 4x5 and every once in a while someone will come up to me who is genuinely interested in my camera, etc. Sometimes I will let them look through the ground glass and they are usually a bit amazed.
Then they ask where the batteries and memory card go and ruin the whole thing.....

I LOVE looking through 4x5 gournd glass on location, if it's dark enough outside and you can see through the glass without a cloth over your head, it's just amazing, like everything moves smoother through the lens.

 

[Becky]

I was wandering along by the river thames today with the slr over my shoulder when I walked past a soup stand giving out cups of soup to homeless people... one of the men shouted "ere love can I borrow your camera for ten minutes? I'll bring it back!" ... and then they (and I) all proceeded to fall about laughing...

 

[jon_k]

Was taking a picture on vacation on the top of a huge hill in which an interstate runs through it. This is the hill country between AUSTIN TX and San Antonio. Real small town.

I'm framing my shot and a SUV starts coming down the hill. I thought "This is great! I'll get the car in the shot too!"

The car just halts in the middle of the road. I take my shots and I start to wonder why they halted, not just for me did they?

I put my camera back down and the car slowly comes up the hill and then when she gets by me she stops and rolls her window down. She looks embarrassed and says

"Geez, I thought you were holding a gun! I'm sorry!"
I said "Nah, not a gun. But I did shoot you!"
She said "Well we just moved here, we come from Houston and we're still trying to get out of that city mode."
I'm like "Ahh, I'm from Dallas on vacation here!"
she said "Well have a great time here!" and drove off.

Was just using my 14-45mm too. I thought it was funny.

 

[DSLR noob]

Haha, I don't see how people are confusing cameras for guns.......

 

[Garbz]

Only when you have a 9mm fisheye mounted

 

[snaremop]

Also a lady approached me last week while I was doing an engagement shots for a customer and asked if she could borrow my camera for an hour to shoot her sons baseball game.

How the hell did you tell her no?

 

[DeepSpring]

I'm lovin all these stories. Good stuff

 

[William]

As I was snapping off pictures for a panorama of the montreal skyline, I heard a guy next to me whisper to his partner "I think he wants to get a 360 degree view."

One time I was waiting in a car for someone and I was taking pictures of an old clock tower in Toronto and a guy right next to me in his car said to the other person in the car (where he meant for me to hear it) "If that kid takes my picture I'll break his f**king neck"

 

[DSLR noob]

As I was snapping off pictures for a panorama of the montreal skyline, I heard a guy next to me whisper to his partner "I think he wants to get a 360 degree view."

One time I was waiting in a car for someone and I was taking pictures of an old clock tower in Toronto and a guy right next to me in his car said to the other person in the car (where he meant for me to hear it) "If that kid takes my picture I'll break his f**king neck"

so that's when you turn your flash to it's highest setting turn to him and say "Waht Kid?" as you snap off his mugg shot.

 

[LokiZ]

I was filming a wedding yesterday and at the reception this drunk lady came up to me and asked if I was a official part of the professional photography crew. I said no I'm the videographer. She got real happy and said "Sweet can you take my picture with my husband before we change clothes?" I laughed and said yea let me find a photographer for you. She was dumbfounded hahahahahaha

LOL I do video to...so I see your point fully. When I bought my DCR-VX2100 I was not the least bit turned off that still capture was toy quality at best.

On the photo side of things my favorite for DSLR's is (You mean it can't record video?) followed by a disgusted (What kind of digital camera is that?)

It's amazing how many people think that the two fields should mix, and do so well.

 

[newrmdmike]

" so that's when you turn your flash to it's highest setting turn to him and say "Waht Kid?" as you snap off his mugg shot."

hehe . . . yes . . . . sounds like something i might would do