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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    I got the video camera question a few times. Then I got the "can you get film for that" question, to which I usually reply: No, but I like setting up the camera as a conversation starter. Of course, way too many times about is that an old camera, and the obvious sorts of replies considering my camera is about four years old.

    Best ever was after I allowed a woman to look at the ground glass under the darkcloth. Her one reply was: "Wow, that's a big LCD on that camera".

    Ciao!

    Gordon Moat Photography

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    "That must be one of them old time cameras. How old is it?"

    "Wow, you must be a professional photographer."

    "Are you making a movie?"

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    Quote Originally Posted by Gordon Moat View Post
    "Wow, that's a big LCD on that camera".
    lol

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    Aside from the question of am I using an antique camera the comment I most hear is "wow that camera is so beautiful" (my Toko wood field camera)

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    Guys these are hilarious. A guy asked me one time concerning my 4x5. "How many megapixels is that thing?". My reply. "A lot".
    "WOW! Now thats a big camera. By the way, how many megapixels is that thing?"

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    On the edge of the Grand Canyon (South Rim), I was asked what I was surveying. Most other comments were about the age of the camera.

    Vaughn

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    I was shooting yesterday near a little mountain stream here in Northern Italy, a family passed by and their son asked the father: "is he fishing?"

    other from last year:
    -"we will end up on television news!!" (they thought it was a movie camera)
    -"he is obviously filming the moving clouds with the still motion technique" (this was on a path at the foot of Mont Blanc, I was actually focusing a little lake when this group passed by and "the expert" between them explained to all what I was doing)

    In a sunday afternoon on a river bank too next to the parking I noticed in the reflection on the groundglass two girls and "the expert" as they were taking snaps of me and my camera with the mobile...

    at times all this becomes too embarrassing

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    I have had my LF cameras just a short while, but I have gotten a few memorable questions.

    I was in Industry, Tx. I had set up my newly acquired Crown on tripod on right of way, and was under the dark cloth, about to take a snap of a vintage looking gas station and old truck parked nearby. The last time this place had been photographed, was in 1950 when it was new, I felt.

    Along came the owner, asking "You're not a professional, are you?".

    "No", I answered.

    "Well, Ok. You can't be too careful these days", he replied.

    I am still trying to figure that one out.

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    Years ago I was making a panoramic view from Rio de Janeiro with my trustful 5x7 Kodak 2D and when I came out from beneath the dark cloth there was a boy looking oddly at me: hey, are you x-raying the city?

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    Re: funny questions about your LF camera

    While photographing in the Smokies, I was approached by a couple of boys who asked if my Deardorff was a "cowboy camera".

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