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

[Invictus]

I was at a benefit in late march for my grandfather (donates abunch of money to charity each year) and i had my e-510 in tow with kit lens, just picked it up a few days prior, so i havent had a chance to purchase any lenses yet. anyways, one of the photographers that was hired for the benefit sees my camera on the table and starts going ON AND ON AND ON about how i need to buy more lenses, not just for the quality of the shots, but also to appeal to other people? i just thought wtf is this guy a phony or something? but he wouldnt leave me alone and that wrecked part of my night. anyways, that one isnt so funny, but this one kind of is.

I was in Japan a short while ago, and an american couple asked me to take their picture with their point and shoot. so i laughed and said "sure, i'll shoot you" and she hesitated before passing me her camera. then when they realized what i had said/meant, we had a short but good laugh, all the while hundres of japanese people are passing us with a wtf are they doing look.

 

[Jaszek]

Once in english class, I had my XSI with the 70-200 mounted. A friends asks me
"Whats that in your bag?"
Me:"It's a Canon"
Her:"What do you need it for?"
Me:"I shoot people and buildings and other stuff with it"
She turns away lol

 

[Olcoot]

I find that any time I am out with my Sigma 300-800mm on the D200 the Gitzo 5541 tripod that this combo is very large and always draws many strange looks and many people come up to get a better look and always have a comment. I think my favorite 2 were from a older gentlemen who said "I thought the Hubble was still in space" and a young lady who said with a smirk "Men, they are always trying to compensate for something else". LOL!

 

[blash]

Once in english class, I had my XSI with the 70-200 mounted. A friends asks me
"Whats that in your bag?"
Me:"It's a Canon"
Her:"What do you need it for?"
Me:"I shoot people and buildings and other stuff with it"
She turns away lol

only cause she didn't want to ask where the gunpowder was

 

[Jaszek]

lol

 

[giorgio]

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".

I went to take some pics of my truck to an industrial park(manufacturing and assembling plants) here in Mexico, of course the guards or cops in a Charger police car aproached and asked what we were doing? that we can't take pictures here because of the park's policy.

I told them that I understood and that's why I parked the truck against the open field(no buildings)...
They say "ok..., be careful"...

Minutes latter they passed by again and they kiddingly said out loud through their speaker "take one at this one too!", refering to the Charger.

Here's the patrol car when passing by

BTW, I'm a beginner, and at that time(like 8months ago) I didn't know how to shoot manually yet, so I was on "auto", latter I read and read and read until finally, I stumble upon "understanding exporsure" and in the second page it said... "set your dial in the "M", aim at subject, by seeing in the viewfinder turn the aperture wheel to 4.5 and then the shutter wheel until you see the light metering centered at cero, shoot a way!, you just took your first well exposed picture"...., ha ha ha... I said like YEaahhh!!! eacesign: and felt ridiculous at the same time :banghead: :gah: when seeing how easy it is and how hard was to find it, because, actually, I didn't even imagine there were such thing as manual mode or half pressing etc. I just wanted to learn how to use the DSLR. All books and tutorials explained exporsure, iso's, apertures, circumstances, and a lot of great things..., but then realized I wasn't able to apply it in the camera, but I kept reading and studying because it was interesting.

 

[Buckster]

People get all kinds of weirded out when they see me walking around with this:

For some reason though, they never ask me to point it at them!

 

[Derrel]

"Is that a ray gun?"

 

[Buckster]

"Is that a ray gun?"

lol. I should mount a laser scope to it...

 

[giorgio]

"Is that a ray gun?"

It's a transformer!!.

 

[Actor]

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

Unfortunately you are so very right!

Even more unfortunately the stupidity rate among politicians is higher than the general population.

 

[Actor]

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.

All cats go to heaven!

 

[Actor]

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

Statistics say 12% of them and that number is growing.

 

[the Virginian]

When people see my 4X5 field camera, they ask if it will shoot color.

 

[ottor]

People get all kinds of weirded out when they see me walking around with this:

Do you have any idea how cool that would look if you put a "Glock" front sight on that thing ???

Don't remember anything really out of the ordinary, but there was this fellow ..... I was walking around downtown with my 300mm with the lens hood attached and he turned around and asked me .... "Damn, Dude - how fast have you had that thing up to ??" I just chucked, but he stood there looking at me - serious look - like he was expecting an answer... I said "Well past the limit!!" - He said ....... "Cool"

OK .......... He smelled like a walking canabis bud ...