The thing is that the beach has become a no-photo zone for me... and it's sad coz I'd love to catch images of say stuff like beach competitions etc that's the Aussie culture... I'd be more than happy to show the authorities every single picture and they can vett them before I go home and put them on the web, but I don't think they'd even let you off even if you haven't taken any "bad" shots.
I think what it really set the police off was that they couldn't check the images on the spot, and it made the guy "really" suspicious.
Once i took some shot near a construction site with a P&S camera. A hard-hut guy questioned me about it. As i was someone who takes pictures of crans and stuff to make a masterplan or something.
When i offered my camera to him, he got embarassed.
Whatz goin on? Bad guy's have spy gear you wouldn't even know they shoot the hair out of your nose. This is gettin insane.
That's fine the pollice couldn't have checked it there and then, but surely give it 1 hr processing meant that it shouldn't have even made the news... I mean there's some level of embarrassment to the photographer to be named in the papers for something that he was allegidly doing but proven otherwise. Guilty until proven innocent by the press.
Zab BBX wrote:
I think what it really set the police off was that they couldn't check the images on the spot, and it made the guy "really" suspicious.
Once i took some shot near a construction site with a P&S camera. A hard-hut guy questioned me about it. As i was someone who takes pictures of crans and stuff to make a masterplan or something.
When i offered my camera to him, he got embarassed.
Whatz goin on? Bad guy's have spy gear you wouldn't even know they shoot the hair out of your nose. This is gettin insane.
Maybe he should carry a polaroid back when shooting MF !
SmellyTofu wrote:
The thing is that the beach has become a no-photo zone for me... and it's sad coz I'd love to catch images of say stuff like beach competitions etc that's the Aussie culture... I'd be more than happy to show the authorities every single picture and they can vett them before I go home and put them on the web, but I don't think they'd even let you off even if you haven't taken any "bad" shots.
(forgive my leftie libertarianism bent for a sec)
Would you really? No one elected the police (or, tangentally, the OFLC either for that matter).
The time I was busted for being a "terrorist" I did show them my images, and I'm not sure it was the right thing to do.
On one hand, if the quickest path to not sharing a cell with Hicksie is showing them my modest but nice images, well so be it.
If showing them my images helps to set a new norm whereby others are less at liberty to shoot on beaches, and later other public places, I have to ask myself if it is the right thing to do.
SmellyTofu wrote:
That's what people are saying.. but is it worth it?? I find my CS2 works plenty fast....
out of curiosity what hardware are you running Smelly?
I've got 2G ram, Pentium D 3Ghz, SATA raid & PS swaps to it's own dedicated disk (WEI 4.8)... it's fast, but if there is faster on offer, i'm always interested.
JamesGreen wrote:
out of curiosity what hardware are you running Smelly?
I've got 2G ram, Pentium D 3Ghz, SATA raid & PS swaps to it's own dedicated disk (WEI 4.8)... it's fast, but if there is faster on offer, i'm always interested.
What else are you guys running PS on?
I'm running CS2 with a 1.6GHz laptop, only 756Mb RAM.. it's pretty slow
CS 2 running on P4 2.4 Ghz with 1 Gig DDR Ram. 3 x 120 Gbyte IDE 7200 rpm Drives . Works for Real Time Video editing with a Pinnacle DV 500 Card. New Number Cruncher planned for after the new lenses.
JamesGreen wrote:
out of curiosity what hardware are you running Smelly?
I've got 2G ram, Pentium D 3Ghz, SATA raid & PS swaps to it's own dedicated disk (WEI 4.8)... it's fast, but if there is faster on offer, i'm always interested.
What else are you guys running PS on?
AMD 64 X2 4200+ 2Gb DDR RAM, 320Gb IDE HDD... works fast.. maybe coz I don't have every single file up...
i just got CS3 ... running on a 24inch imac,, 2,33Ghz , 2 gig ram .. runs super fast.... also have CS2 on a 3.4Ghz pentium w/ 2gig ram not as fast as mac...
on the mac CS3 loads in about 2sec
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