People don't draw rational conclusions when they see a serious camera. Five examples of irrational inferences:
1. "That guy photographing my city may be up to something." If the Brit were a bad guy, he would have been careful not to call attention to himself. Ergo, he would have forgone the big, conspicuous gear and taken a quick shot or two from his car window. 2. "Let me see that camera, Sir." As mentioned months ago, there's no rational reason for airport security guards to peer through the viewfinder of a non-SLR. Absolutely nothing can be determined about the camera's innards. 3. "Sorry I'm in your way." When I'm at a school shooting an indoor event, people duck and apologize as they walk by my tripod, even though I take pains to stand a foot or two away from it, my hand off the remote release cord, to assure them that I'm not about to snap the shutter. There's no way anyone could mistake my 1970s gear for a camcorder that's "always recording." 4. "His camera says Sears. He can't be serious." That would be the Sears KS Auto, otherwise known as the Ricoh XR-2s. 5. "That Stregevsky fellow is standing on a stepladder to reach his camera on his tall tripod. And he's holding a release cable. And there he goes with a one-legged tripod, with its head turned sideways. And he's dressed in black. He must know what he's doing." :) Paul Franklin Stregevsky - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
