Tiny Format Fiction

[Miguel Coquis]

For LF members that enjoy doing some small digital format.
Here is a couple of vues shots with computer assitance.
Hope you enjoy.
Pics done during a short journey in Thailand.
Any questions, please do !

[Miguel Coquis]

Day laborers, rice paddies at Ubud, Bali

[Willie]

Have been to places where a multi thousand dollar digital camera was just fine but as soon as I went to get the $125.00 Calumet 4x5 I got "NO professional photos allowed" and had to leave.
Those who don't know reality make for interesting times.

Nothing wrong with small film/digital formats. At times the 8x10 just won't work no matter how much you want it to. The same as you don't get 8x10 quality from tiny negatives.

[tuco]

Have been to places where a multi thousand dollar digital camera was just fine but as soon as I went to get the $125.00 Calumet 4x5 I got "NO professional photos allowed" and had to leave.
Those who don't know reality make for interesting times.

Nothing wrong with small film/digital formats. At times the 8x10 just won't work no matter how much you want it to. The same as you don't get 8x10 quality from tiny negatives.

The camera discrimination among public workers and some institutions is nothing short of amazing. I feel anyone who earns a living off tax dollars and interfaces with the public should have mandatory camera training.

[Miguel Coquis]

The camera discrimination among public workers and some institutions is nothing short of amazing. I feel anyone who earns a living off tax dollars and interfaces with the public should have mandatory camera training.

Could the purpose be more explicit, please ?
Another try, B&W
HK, visiting friends.

[tuco]

Could the purpose be more explicit, please ?
Another try, B&W
HK, visiting friends.

I hold up a big, bulky camera and take a picture of some train parts from a public street and I'm descended upon by people working for the public telling me I can't. I take a picture of a docked Ferry with a camera that looks bigger than a phone camera and I'm descended upon once again asking for photo ID, name and purpose. In each of these situations, no doubt, each public employee wouldn't have bothered if it was a phone or tiny point and shoot camera I was holding. Somehow, the size of the camera, not the IQ, puts these clueless people into authority mode and they forget whom they work for.

[BradS]

I hold up a big, bulky camera and take a picture of some train parts from a public street and I'm descended upon by people working for the public telling me I can't...

This happens to you in Seattle?

[tuco]

This happens to you in Seattle?

Yes. Both occurrences. The number of pictures that are taken on and of a a public Ferry here from tourists is countless. But yet stand there with a tripod and a camera that looks different than everyone else and all of sudden your rights don't matter anymore. You are guilty until proven innocent. That's the mentality of a lot of things in this part of the country.

[Two23]

This happens to you in Seattle?

Just another reason I'll never live on the West Coast.


Kent in SD

[BradS]

Just another reason I'll never live on the West Coast.


Kent in SD

Eh, I think you’re painting with a pretty broad brush there.
I’ve not experienced anything like this kind of stupidity anywhere in California.
Not even in Irvine.