Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread F. Craig Callahan
Gerard Maas wrote: > Here I can walk in the center with my camera on my hand day and > night without much trouble... nothing I deared to do in NY or Philly when I > went visiting :-) FWIW, I never had any problem using my camera around town when I lived in Philadelphia. fcc * *** *

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Andreas W
- Original Message - From: "Ken Durling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Drop this idea immediately. You're likely to get yourself killed. > There are a LOT of thugs out there packing heat these days. Same with > a knife - you pull it, the other guy pulls one, and now, do you know > how to use

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Jonah D. Klevesahl
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ken Durling wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2001 13:47:12 +0200, you wrote: > > >PS2: I'm thinking about one of those lead guns powered with presurized > >CO-2 cans. It's legal to carry 'em (maybe not to shot a person with it) > >and it hurts enough to make them withdraw. > > > Drop

Re[2]: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Dieter Henkel
GM> I come from a major city in a south american country and there I learnt what GM> *is* insecurity. (I had once a gun pointed on my head in exchange for my car GM> and girlfriend). Did you get your girlfriend back? ;-) -- Best regards, Dietermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Gerard Maas
Hi all, Thanks a lot for your supporting words. For those interested in the place, I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, and the park we went to is located in Wilrijk. Here in Belgium it's quite safe by anybody standards (if you exclude Brussels, of course ;-) but stealing is a quite old 'profession' and it

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Rien Stoop
Hi Gerard, That's a funny (understatemnet) story, scary! To help you a little, I have the 550EX manual in the English version, though I bought it at Schiphol Airport. No Dutch manual available at that time. If you,re interested, I can copy it for you. Rien (from Almelo, Netherlan

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Bob Sull
Kim wrote: My camera gear is all insured, so if someone ever challenged me for it I'd give it up. If I had time and could think clearly, I'd try to save my exposed film. Kim I have my stuff insured too. I really think this is the best approach. With the low value many people place on life toda

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Ken Durling
On Mon, 28 May 2001 13:47:12 +0200, you wrote: >PS2: I'm thinking about one of those lead guns powered with presurized >CO-2 cans. It's legal to carry 'em (maybe not to shot a person with it) >and it hurts enough to make them withdraw. Drop this idea immediately. You're likely to get yourself

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Jim Davis
> Yesterday I was in a park trying to photograph bees on flight leaving > the flowers after feeding (or is the right name "collecting"?). It was > a bit late already, around 20h and at a given moment the people that (snip) > I stayed in alert state until we left, and once we got home I had this

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Margaret Jeffcoat
> By standard lines I was in a "safe" place, and luckily not completely > abstracted in my own 'world through the lens'. > > I'd like to hear about your experiences. Is somebody carring some kind > of active theft prevention device (pepper spray, electric shock, etc... > (all illegal to carry ov

Re: EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Kim
> I'd like to hear about your experiences. Is somebody carring some kind > of active theft prevention device (pepper spray, electric shock, etc... > (all illegal to carry over here anyway)). Best practices, etc...? > > Regards, > Gerard. Gerard, I'm glad there was no tragic ending to your st

EOS Shooting Risks!

2001-05-28 Thread Gerard Maas
Hi all, Yesterday I was in a park trying to photograph bees on flight leaving the flowers after feeding (or is the right name "collecting"?). It was a bit late already, around 20h and at a given moment the people that were playing arround me, left. Suddently I heard some loud voices having a ex