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

[newrmdmike]

lokiz - that new "red" camera is making it happen . . . photography is going to be taking a odd turn over the next 20 years, i can feel it.

more and more people will be snagging stills from video for sports, weddings pj work etc.

 

[LokiZ]

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. :banghead:

For those of you into archery it's the feeling you get when some dry fires your bow. Ewwww horrible!

 

[LokiZ]

lokiz - that new "red" camera is making it happen . . . photography is going to be taking a odd turn over the next 20 years, i can feel it.

more and more people will be snagging stills from video for sports, weddings pj work etc.

Mike I am sure you are correct, have not researched it, but the people who make these comments are usually not talking about the new technology but in comparison to their own cameras

 

[DSLR noob]

hey they gave the 1D MK II live view, it'll probably have video on the 1Ds (oh God I hope not) I mean it could be convenient, but........... no, just..... no.

 

[Neuner]

Great stories! Since I'm new to SLR I get embarrassed. Usually people will ask me technical questions that I either don't know, or don't know how to explain. I'm only able to rattle off the technical specifications of the camera, but I am not one to give any composition, lighting or exposure advice. They then look at me like I'm a total poser.

When I whip out my camera at a park or the zoo, people will step a side in order for me to take a 'professional' picture, which others begin to notice. I then have a group of people standing around watching my every move and adjustment. Since I'm not that great it gets intimidating.

All of my family is known to take a lot of pictures, and they are alright in their own part. When I show up with my setup they expect the pictures to look professional and amazing. If the results don't look too hot or are practice shots, then they give me looks like, 'if you suck, then why did you waste a lot of money on a fancy camera?'.

 

[megan044]

Recently, I shot some promo pics for Cedar Point and while walking around the park all day with my 70-200 2.5 on my 30d with grip I got asked if I would trade cameras, how much my kit cost, if I was hired by CP, if I was a famous photgrapher, and my favorite comment of all: (first I have to point out that I'm a petite, 5"2 female) "That lens is bigger than YOU".
I got so tired of the smart remarks. Everyone thinks they know about photography.

 

[lifeafter2am]

Recently, I shot some promo pics for Cedar Point and while walking around the park all day with my 70-200 2.5 on my 30d with grip I got asked if I would trade cameras, how much my kit cost, if I was hired by CP, if I was a famous photgrapher, and my favorite comment of all: (first I have to point out that I'm a petite, 5"2 female) "That lens is bigger than YOU".
I got so tired of the smart remarks. Everyone thinks they know about photography.

You mean they dont? LOL!! Makes me think of all the soccer moms walking around with there Rebel's and kit lenses! (nothing wrong with either, other than its a soccer mom who has NO CLUE how to use it!)

I never get comments like that. People usually just stare at me as I rattle off shots at 5 frames per second. Even the soccer moms! :lmao:

 

[Garbz]

Yeah I unfortunately know a poor D200 which never found it's way out of ProgramAuto mode. I think every time someone clicks the shutter on that thing god kills a kitten.

 

[cherrymoose]

My dad's wedding was the first place in public I went with my DSLR.


Very Large British Guy With a Huge Mustache and a Nikon D200: That's quite a camera.
Me: Oh! Thanks.
Mustache Guy: I do enjoy photography.
Me: Oh yeah, I do too.
Mustache Guy: You see, I have one house in Colorado Springs, and one in England.
Me: Really.
Mustache Guy: Yes, I mainly live on the English countryside. There's many sheep.
Me: Oh?
Mustache Guy: Sheep births. That's my favorite thing to photograph with this baby. *shakes his camera*
Me: Well, that's certainly interesting!
Mustache Guy: So what do you take photos of?
Me: Oh, this and that.
Mustache Guy: Ah. Me too. *wanders off to frighten the bride's niece*


:raisedbrow:

 

[neea]

For those of you into archery it's the feeling you get when some dry fires your bow. Ewwww horrible!

Ack!! This is why I'd never let anyone touch my equipment.
I got a Rebel XTi two weeks ago and my bf is so scared to touch it because he knows how mad I woud be if something happened.
I've been trying for two weeks to get him to hold it.
Today was the first time I got him to take a picture using it. And that's only because 1. I ran his camera battery dead and forgot to charge it and 2. He baught me a new toy and wanted to take pictures of me using it.

I've never had any weird comments when out taking pictures. I always get asked which newspaper I work for though and it makes me very proud to say that I don't (i used to. it was a bad bad horrible job).

 

[lifeafter2am]

Yeah I unfortunately know a poor D200 which never found it's way out of ProgramAuto mode. I think every time someone clicks the shutter on that thing god kills a kitten.

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

 

[eravedesigns]

Im shooting an air show and my dad is standing next to me. He looks over and says "hey when did you get that lens"...i had the lens for over a year but i had just put my lens hood on and he was more impressed.

 

[Meysha]

Yeah I unfortunately know a poor D200 which never found it's way out of ProgramAuto mode. I think every time someone clicks the shutter on that thing god kills a kitten.

hehehehe... I'll have to meet up with you and -spam- at some stage. You sound like great guys!

My best experience was actually in a camera shop here called "Photo Continental". Ok, I love the place, they know me by name now in there... but... they are so hopeless.

I walked in there one day because my Mamiya C330 had it's back door jammed and I needed someone to help me open it. So I walked up to their service counter and this is what the girl said to me

her: "wow... is that a camera?"
me: (thinking she was joking) *laughs*
then I realise hang on, she wasn't joking. uh oh.... "um.. yeah it's a medium format camera"
her: ".... oh ... what's that?"
me: (realising there's no hope)... "umm... do you think there's someone around who could help me with this camera?"

oh dear... :-(

But then again, I usually get weird comments about my mamiya.

2nd funny comment
I went out with my boyfriend, 350D, Polaroid Sx-70, and tripod in hand to some cliffs on the river to get some nice Night time city shots over the river, and then to get some photos of the cliffs at night with abseilers on them. It was really gorgeous.

There was also a small group of young twenty somethings having a bbq there.
One of them also had a 350D or similar and was trying to take a photo of their group, while I was sort of near them taking photos of the city lights.

Anyway, we heard them laughing because I didn't have a flash.

hmm ok. So then I stuck the Sx-70 on the tripod and moved over to the cliffs.
Seriously, everyone was watching me. Partly because I was trying to hold my polarizing filter infront of the lens so it didn't over expose.

One guy came up to me and said, "Nice Camera".
me, "thanks"
him, "so why are you putting that stuff in front of it" (stuff is polarizing filter and black card to reduce exposure)
me, "to make sure the film doesn't over expose"
him, "over expose?"
me, thinking: oh god... I really don't want to explain all of this. so I figure I'll just freak him out and keep talking for ages until he thinks I'm weird and leaves me along, "it's a special film camera made in the 70s and they used to make this special film for it but they don't make the film for it anymore, so I have to use a different sort of film now..... blah blah blah.
him, "can I have a look at some pictures?"
me, thinking: go away! but because they're right there in my hand I can't really say that, so I said: "ok"

he looks at them... and says.. "oh they're not very good are they, your old camera must be broken"

I then realise he's looking at a picture I literally just took and it's only just started developing... hehehe... it was all grey and horrible and he thought I was so proud of that! :mrgreen:

 

[Garbz]

hahahahah that is golden. Even my mother knows how a polaroids work. Honestly where would we be without stupid people in the world. We'd get bored to death. Really.

The other day, me sitting in an Irish pub with some mates, and the bartender comes over and says what I can only assume to be his best entry in the first annual international most oblivious awards, "hey that's a big camera" and walks off, thus ending the most pointless waste of breath I have ever seen a living being take.

 

[DeadEye]

Some of you may get this: Went to see Lou Reed the other night, and brought my Leica M8 with a 35mm Summilux. "Is that an SLR?" the burly door guy asked. "Nope, it's a Rangefinder." "As long as it's not an SLR, we don't allow good cameras."

Good One to tell an old photo journalist.. hehe