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

[Chiller]

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

Nah..I wouldnt touch a wedding with a professionals camera. :lmao::lmao::lmao: I was too cold to give a funny reply back. Just told them, I dont do weddings. :er:

 

[Rrr3319]

i took some pictures at christmas and gave them to my grandma the other day. my cousin looks though them and picks out one where the subject is clearly in focus and the background is (intentionally) not and says "jeez, with a camera that big, you'd think it wouldn't take blurry pictures." :er:

 

[Village Idiot]

We had a meetup at Patapsco state park in Baltimore with the local Strobist group. There were about 15 photographers in the tunnel shooting and a little girl that was on the path that passes the tunnel asked her parents something along the lines of, "Daddy, did some one die because there's a lot of news people there".

 

[DSLR noob]

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

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.

 

[bhop]

This was a while back, but it's probably the best story I have.

I was standing on Hollywood Blvd. where all the tourists hang, leaning against a wall outside a store, waiting for a friend. I had my black Nikon FE, with a 105mm f/2.5 attached. I was just looking around for people to shoot, occasionally bringing the camera up to my eye to check framing or snap a shot. Now, that lens is bigger than your standard 50mm, but it's not all that big, maybe the size of your average modern kit lens, and the FE is a pretty small camera, so you can imagine my surprise when some college age girl (wasn't hot) with a thick southern accent, comes up and asked if I was a Paparazzi. I say 'no'. She says 'oh...' and walks away.

 

[mrodgers]

Not something funny someone said to me (as I don't really have a big camera), a funny though that I had....

Background - I have a little Fuji S5700. I spend quite a bit of time lying in the grass at home taking macro shots of the little flowers you see in the grass. I've hunted out bugs in the grass. I play around with the kid's toys in the house with the camera....

Now on to the funny. We went out shopping as I needed some new work boots. The kids and wife sat in the car while I was in the shop. When I got out to the car, the kids are hanging out the windows watching people falling from the sky with bright colorful parachutes. Of course, the rule states "Take your camera everywhere you go." Well, I am a rule breaker and I did not have my camera.

Move on with the shopping. We ran up the road, a bit closer to the airport where the jumpers were falling through the sky, to an outdoor mall. There they were, every time I walked out of a store, they are falling through the sky. Grrrr, I wish I had my camera. The mall has these landscaped areas all over. I spied a guy holding quite a camera with camera bags hanging over his shoulder. I couldn't tell what he was shooting with. But there he was standing in the middle of the landscaping with the camera pointed down to a clear spot where he looked like he was just shooting dirt.

I nudged my wife and motioned, "Look over there. See, I'm not crazy like you say I am, there's someone taking pictures of dirt."

"No," she says, "Now there's just two people in this world who I think are crazy!"

As for my thoughts, the only thing I could think of is to go tap the guy on the shoulder pointing to the sky and say, "Dude! There's people falling from the sky everywhere right over there and you're taking pictures of DIRT!"

I didn't tap the guy on the shoulder, but I thought of doing it, hehe.


So..... were any of you up at the Prime Outlet mall in Grove City, PA taking pictures of dirt this summer?

 

[dxqcanada]

One question that my wife and I ALWAYS get from people ... whenever we have one of our longer telephoto lenses on the camera ... is:

"How far can you see?"

I aways answer:

[raising my hand to shade my eyes and looking into the horizon] "... I can see at least a couple of miles"

 

[milavidal]

I went to Chicago for a week with a couple of Friends, and I was walking around with my d80 and had my 50 mm..not a single comment..I slap out my 70-200, and people accidentally walking into my shot, just apologized, smiled and said: thats a nice camera!
Trying to make me a compliment, I know..but it just goes to show how people think the bigger the better!

 

[JerryPH]

My favorite... walking through a mall at Christmas with my D700, grip and SB-800 speedlight pointing straight up (ceilings are all white).

Hairspray sales man looks at me and says:
"nice camera, I know all about them... but your flash is pointing the wrong way for best effect, you have to point it AT the person you are shooting"

Me:
"No, I prefer to bounce the light off the white ceilings for more dispersed and even light, also, no red eye"

Him:
"No way, that never works... show me!

Me:
SNAP!
"Here, look at the LCD..."

Him:
"Oh, yes, I... ARGHHHHHHH! What did that bitc* do to my hair? Wait, take another pic, with me looking at you... fast, FAST!"

Me:
"Sure"
SNAP!

Him:
<looks at the picture>
<no scream, but squeals like a pig this time>
"No.. no way... THAT BIT*H! She had me looking like this in PUBLIC??? She is so FIRED!!!!!"

While he is in panic mode, I refrain from laughing and walk away.

 

[Josh66]

:lmao:

 

[KvnO]

One thing I hate is when someone tells me what I should photograph. So when I took my camera to my brother's wedding, it was more to please my mother than anyone else. However, as I am new to the photography scene, it did give me a decent excuse to pick up a new lens (just a 50mm f/1.8).

Because I was a groomsmen, my sister spent more time behind my camera than I. I think she enjoyed it, but she kept asking, "Why doesn't this zoom?" The church was actually incredibly tiny and almost too small for the lens.

At the reception, I made my own little n00b comment. The actual wedding photographer (whom I don't think was a pro, but a friend of the couple with an interest in photography) asked me what camera I was using.

Not being in the best mood (as I wasn't really enjoying myself), all I said was, "it's a Canon..." Then I thought, "wow, did I really just say that?"

"I know, but what kind?"

"Oh, just a Rebel..." Hopefully the lens choice helped show I had a little more interest in photography than most soccer moms.

I guess I'm not used to folks asking me about my stuff yet.

 

[Battou]

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.

Well, that particular inncodent I just happened to have the prints with me due to having just picked them up, other wize I just say I shoot wild life and leave it at that.

One question that my wife and I ALWAYS get from people ... whenever we have one of our longer telephoto lenses on the camera ... is:

"How far can you see?"

I get that all the time, One more notable inncodent was a police officer. I took my clients kids (I'm a child care provider) down to a city park to play and I threw a few lenses into my brief case and had the 400mm on the body and took them with me. We arrived at the park to find it full due to a church picnic. Lots of children playing in their sunday best and a handful of adults. I looked at the situation and thought to my self, "Well, something tells me the squirls are going to be avoiding the park today" I set down my briefcase and proceeded to change out my lens from the 400mm to an 85mm. After about half an hour of twenty questions and two lets be friends offerings from the church staff I decided to call the kids over and tell them "we where going to a different park, too many people". Now I could not carry the 400mm in the briefcase, so I put it back on the camera and as we where leaving a police car comes around the corner...some one called the police on me [facepalm]. After getting things all said and done the police officer sais to me

"How far can you see with that lens?"

I replyed
"From main street bridge, The Red Garter fills the frame nicely"

Now that I think about it I posted that one here before.....

 

[elliott FTW]

i was playing with slow shutter speeds in the dark with a friends lightsaber, and his sister who is about 14 comes up to me asks

: WTF is that?? its huge?
me: this is an SLR, its a real camera
her: its a piece of crap, i bet mines got more megapixels than that. its got 6
me: 8.
her: oh, ok... yea well im a better photographer than you.
me: yea? take a photo of your brother waving that light saber around using a slow shutter speed of 2 seconds, and a an f/point of ....
her: *takes a snapshot with a flash, shows it to me, laughs and walks off.*

 

[shivaswrath]

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."

yeah - that Leica is a POS in comparison to an SLR . . .haha, stupid people. . .

 

[sarallyn]

i was playing with slow shutter speeds in the dark with a friends lightsaber, and his sister who is about 14 comes up to me asks

: WTF is that?? its huge?
me: this is an SLR, its a real camera
her: its a piece of crap, i bet mines got more megapixels than that. its got 6
me: 8.
her: oh, ok... yea well im a better photographer than you.
me: yea? take a photo of your brother waving that light saber around using a slow shutter speed of 2 seconds, and a an f/point of ....
her: *takes a snapshot with a flash, shows it to me, laughs and walks off.*

i'm not sure i'm more surprised by the 14 your old or the fact that your friend has a lightsaber.