On 6/27/05, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enforcing such a law would be problematic. First there would have to be > some definition as to what was legally a telephoto lens...
Defining a telephoto lens would be quite easy. Choose a number. "any lens longer than 90mm (35mm equivalent, as applicable to other photographic formats)". If it's not in the law, all you need is judicial interpretation. A judge will either throw the law out due to it's imprecision, or interpret "telephoto" and stick a number in that will now follow the law around by legal precedent (that's all case law is). Of course, this California law we're talking about here was likely passed as an Anti-Paparazzi or Anti-Stalking law (assuming it was ever passed at all). So one doubts that guys walking along Venice Beach with a big lens would be harrassed by California's finest... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
