You're right. 300mm is quite liberal, reasonable and permissive. Upon reconsideration my previous post was over reacting and just plain wrong.
I would withdraw that post were it possible to do so, but since I can't, please accept my apologies for having posted it. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: John Francis <jo...@panix.com> Sent: June 7, 2012 6/7/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: Olympics sets limits on amature lens size. Only lenses over 30cm prohibited? That's quite permissive by today's standards. for the US Figure Skating championships the limit was below that; I think the 50-135 might just have been allowed, but the 60-250 definitely wasn't. But with a 30cm guideline the A* 300/2.8 (even with the 1.7x AF adapter) falls within the length limits. As does an A 400/5.6 (but not an A*/2.8). I wouldn't want to be shooting anything much larger than that hand-held. The rules are at least partially there to prevent you being a dick and blocking the view of the person in the seat next to you by sticking a honking great camera right in their field of view. If I were going to the Olympics I'd be giving serious consideration to an OM-D with the 75-300 - that's a whole lot easier to carry around. On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:49:36AM +0000, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: > These sorts of things really piss me off. > > The IOC and the local organizers are so f-ing worried that someone is going > to sell a photo and they'll lose licensing fees or royalties or whatever that > no one gets to take keepsakes. > > I was at the Olympics in Montreal in 76. Took my Praktica and either a 200 or > 300mm to my one day at the stadium. Happened to be the day that Lasse Viren > won his second race making him the only Olympian to win the 5,000m and > 10,000m in successive Olympics. Got a shot of him crossing the line then > another of him collapsing on the track. > > It was also day two of the decathlon. Got several shots of Bruce Jenner > including one of him taking a victory lap waving an American flag. > > >From where I was my shots had no commercial value; indeed they would have > >no value to anyone but me. All they did is show I was "there". > > That's what any photo from the seats will be. No one except those with > credentials will be anywhere near any vantage point from which they can take > commercially viable images. > > What the hell are they afraid of? They won't lose a dime if they let amateurs > shoot with big lenses from their seats. > > They're just bring control freaks. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bob W <p...@web-options.com> > Sent: June 6, 2012 6/6/12 > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: Olympics sets limits on amature lens size. > > The entire games are a giant corporate stitch-up, so this sort of thing > comes as no surprise. I'd rather see a scaled-down games with less corporate > sponsorship and 'hospitality' and something on a more human scale geared > towards ordinary people, even if it wasn't so spectacular. > > B > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > > P. J. Alling > > Sent: 06 June 2012 18:28 > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Olympics sets limits on amature lens size. > > > > Apparently large cameras, (and I don't know what large means Pop Photo > > doesn't give specifics), and lenses over 30 cm, (why don't the English > > just revert to form and say a foot), are prohibited. I expect to see a > > run on Pentax M* 300mm and Olympus OM-D cameras with 4:3 to K mount > > adapters is in the offing. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
