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My initial reaction was ... where the heck does this guy live... I have never experienced any issues of this nature, and I do a lot of exploration in the countryside... most folks just yell at you to go away up here if you are in the wrong place.


Oct 17, 2014 at 12:27 AM
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Usually it occurs when embedded with Law Enforcement. One recent incident involved a story I was working on about rural sheriffs departments. The deputy received a 911 hang-up call on a remote ranch. We approached the house and a donkey started baying. The deputy told me to hang tight at that spot while he made initial contact with the residents. About 30 seconds later I being held by the landowner with a shotgun telling me to drop my weapon, a Pentax with a 70-300mm lens. Once he comes over and discovers it was a camera he became sheepish and apologized.

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I was watching Alaska State troopers and people called the police on a photog. They ran up on him guns drawn he looked like he shat his pants. They seemed a little embarrassed. If people can't tell the difference between a gun and a camera they should get their eyes checked. I never been in that situation but I never really shot with long lenses other than at home.




Oct 17, 2014 at 09:08 AM
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p.2 #3 · p.2 #3 · Painting My Lenses


maybe you should converse with the police authorities as to what will help them not need to draw down on you since you are working. and believe me it won't be the last time either. i work in various locations and except for 2 i never had an issue. i do carry and display press IDs at the appropriate times. situations are dynamic and people are involved that are quite capable of making a wrong decision.







Oct 17, 2014 at 09:52 AM
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lxdesign wrote:
My initial reaction was ... where the heck does this guy live... I have never experienced any issues of this nature, and I do a lot of exploration in the countryside... most folks just yell at you to go away up here if you are in the wrong place.


Haha, I live in Texas. I've done work with small town LE, National Guard, and USBP. Generally they are good to go, but there have been occasions where even when there was good communication, an intervening third party would be the source of my troubles. I'm going to go with a lens-hood gaffer tape scheme, so that I can switch to something less flashy when the situation calls for it. I'll post pictures when I'm done.



Oct 20, 2014 at 12:42 AM
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Your stories make me think of the saying: "Even the gods work in vain against human stupidity"

Honestly, a camera mistaken for a gun ... has not happened to me thus far, but man there are some paranoid people out there.



Oct 21, 2014 at 12:37 AM
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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Painting My Lenses


Wikileaks became famous because of gun camera footage of an Apache crew mistaking a Reuters photographer for an RPG team member.



Andre Labonte wrote:
Your stories make me think of the saying: "Even the gods work in vain against human stupidity"

Honestly, a camera mistaken for a gun ... has not happened to me thus far, but man there are some paranoid people out there.




Oct 21, 2014 at 04:40 AM
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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.

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Wikileaks became famous because of gun camera footage of an Apache crew mistaking a Reuters photographer for an RPG team member.





Oct 21, 2014 at 06:32 AM
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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.







Oct 21, 2014 at 01:37 PM
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I am looking at a Tamron 70-300 VR lens. If somebody has a gun with a barrel that big he couldn't fire it without setting it against a bridge abutment to absorb the recoil. Attempting to hand hold and fire such a weapon would probably result in multiple broken bones.


Oct 21, 2014 at 03:13 PM
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runamuck wrote:
I am looking at a Tamron 70-300 VR lens. If somebody has a gun with a barrel that big he couldn't fire it without setting it against a bridge abutment to absorb the recoil. Attempting to hand hold and fire such a weapon would probably result in multiple broken bones.


Pretty much. Most of the time, Texans know the difference. I run into problems in the dark or in cities with confusion.

With a 70-300 barrel, you'd be hauling grenades. It really confused me the first time someone made the mistake. "How could this thing be mistaken for a gun?"

Must be all that violent media on youtube :P ---> Camera Warfare



Oct 21, 2014 at 04:21 PM
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p.2 #11 · p.2 #11 · Painting My Lenses


Funny you mention Texans knowing the difference. Here is the Socialist Republic of New York, it is illegal for a pistol to be visible in or from any public location. Even an accidental view of a concealed carry is considered "brandishing". For a time after 911, cops were even stopping people from taking pictures from bridges (but you could take a picture of the bridge) ... that is until some civil liberties group took the state to court and won ... now all the "No photography from the bridge" signs are gone.

Bottom line, there are a lot of paranoid and stupid people out there. Despite that, I have yet to have anyone mistake my camera for a gun ... of course now that I said that it'll likely happen to me.



Oct 22, 2014 at 11:16 AM
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p.2 #12 · p.2 #12 · Painting My Lenses


Andre - it sounds like he's in the middle of the action, not just walking around.


Oct 22, 2014 at 11:38 AM
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M635_Guy wrote:
Andre - it sounds like he's in the middle of the action, not just walking around.


Agreed



Oct 22, 2014 at 06:13 PM
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