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Andre Labonte wrote:
And if you read my earlier post, in a combat situation, at long distances, that makes perfect sense. But in the civilian situations, at close range, that the OP describes, it makes no sense at all.
I would bet that if I should go to the runway approach of our airport with my 600mm f/4.0 and not ask for clearance with airport security first, I'd be facing a swat team in less than half an hour after setting up to snap some cool plane shots, even directly at the side of the road where you can see that it is a lens, IF you know what a big lens looks like.
Every time I use this lens at a race track where bigger lenses are quite common, "civilians" will ask me the craziest questions about "how far can you see with that cannon" or "how close does that bazooka of a lens get you?"
Bottom line - if you don't use pro camera gear yourself or have an interest in those things, you generally won't be able to tell it apart from an oven pipe or a ZEUS rocket launcher. After that it is just your terror-fear brainwashed thinking that will turn it into a scary weapon.
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