johan_de_groote Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I just went to the photo shop to have a couple of enlargements made. Rather surprised when the guy asked if I took them with a Hasselblad. Sadly I'm too well educated to say "of course". So I had to shatter his illusions and told him I used a Kiev 60. I guess they don't see 6x6 negatives often these days. Are there others that got such funny remarks when showing up with negatives, a strange piece of gear or other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_dorcich1 Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 People ask why i'm taking movies of landscapes with my RB 67. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benny_spinoza Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 David...I had a similar experience. When my Hasselblad was set up on a tripod, some people passing by on the trail remarked how stupid I was to take a movie of a stationary scene! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nealcurrie Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I often get people asking if my Pentax 645 is a movie camera. I'm most amused when people ask how many times zoom I get on my 120mm 1:1 Macro lens. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_calafut Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 I had my Mamiya TLR on a tripod and a person passing by thought I was a surveyor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vahe_sahakian Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Every time that I photograph my granddaughters with Pentax67 they rush to look at the back of the camera, always disappointed to find no display screen in the back. But how come? Vahe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul ron Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Heck, people duck when I point my RB at em thinking it's a ray-gun or someting. The more you say, the less people listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug grosjean Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 The best compliment I get is when the lab wants to print and frame a copy of one of my panos (Kodak Panoram or Widelux) for their shop, to show some of the custom work they can do. Right now they have two of them up, a Boeing B17 at a Father's Day airshow, and a spring scene of lovers and fishermen and kids around a local wooded pond. With the swing-lens cameras and a TLR in my bag when I play tourist, I tend to attract questions. Many older people recognize the Rolleiflex TLR as something their dad or grandpa used, but the swing-lens cameras seem to really attract a wide variety of other shooters who've never seen such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_dimarzio Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 One guy asked me if my Contax IIIa was a Leica. So I killed him and ate him, he was very tough, must have been a Baptist. I like it when people stop and talk, and mistake my Contax 645 for something else. In todays world, it is refreshing that some will still say hello in the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skygzr Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 My favorite is, "Wow, look at those pictures, they must be digital". They are, since I used my finger to push the button. Michael, I find you can tenderize nearly anyone if you bury them in the backyard for a week or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean-louis llech Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 With my Linhof Technika, on its Gitzo #3 tripod, with right angle reflex finder, a 240 mm lens, a compendium : <i>"Why do you use and carry such a huge camera ? Look at my phone, it makes beautiful pictures, and I carry it in my pocket. And for x'mas, my son had a digital cam. It makes beautiful pictures too. Even better than my phone."</i><p> Once I was in a street with my Rolleiflex in its brown leather case, a woman suddenly came and said to me : <i>"You have a beautiful camera"</i>. Nothing else. She moved away.<br> Tears and smiles. That's life.<br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_west1 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Several years ago I had an assignment to take a series of photographs of a particular stretch of road which ran through a quaint Hampshire village. I had just mounted the Hasselblad on its tripod, when I was approached by one of the locals who wanted to know what I was doing. Without a moment's hesitation I carefully explained that I was a Russian Agent on a special mission. As I drove back out of the village, having completed the said assignment, some well-meaning soul had affixed a large sign to a telegraph pole at the side of the road which read: "PLAIN CLOTHES COP WITH RADAR GUN AHEAD." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christopher_graham1 Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 The biggest thing I have, and my set up isn't nearly as fancy, is trying to show them that 6x9 is the same aspect ratio as 35mm so I need 4x6 prints instead of 4x5. They seem to be quite confused by this. They seem to think all MF should be either 5x5 or 4x5. I use a folder so mostly they just look at me funny when I pull it out. I was taking pictures of a church one day when a guy that lives across the street yelled you want me to come stand over there so you can have another antique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holgerto Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 When I am using my Pentax 67, people ask me about my license for carrying a weapon...(because of the weight). With my smaller Fuji 645zi, people keep confusing it for some kind of Polaroid and asking where the photo comes out... It seems that nowadays everything big and non-digital rouses suspicion. Keep shooting. Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean-louis llech Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 Do you know what makes that a view or field camera is not suspicious ? the bellows ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan_de_groote Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 Glad to see that most of it is funny! First time ever I used the Kiev in Dresden someone asked me in fluent russian (or something like that) a question. Took quite a bit of handwaving and gestures to finally comprehend he wanted to go to the "Zwinger". Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_marvin Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 With my Rolleiflex TLR, I get "nice camera" With my screw-mount Leicas, "nice old camera" With my Moscva 5, "is that a Hasselblad?" Go figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard baznik Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 I have for many years photographed in a large urban park system near my home. I've used three systems to do this: Bronica GS-1, Leica M, and a K. B. Canham 4x5 field camera. An elderly European gentleman who frequently hikes in the park has come up to me several times when I was using each of the systems and asked. "Linhof?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fwstutterheim Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 I met these little boys. They asked if they could take a look through my Rolleiflex TLR. The expert of the two said to his pal: "It is the latest digital camera! Look at the huge and bright LCD." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dweezil Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Comment of a "friend" when I showed him my Kiev 6C and CZJ 180:<p> You're sick, aren't you?<p> When I told the guy's at the photo shop this one of the two silently confessed that he had and used a Kiev 88 and that as far as he knew there was no cure. The best thing to do he said was to get the system complete and try to live with it.<p> ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiro_ayh Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 LOL, lotsa of funny replies that got from people. Once, I went out with a group of new met photographers from a local forum. I brought my Pentax 645N to shoot, and one of them reply: "Hey, are you trying to own us with your medium format?" I'm just like want to finish that roll of film inside the camera, about 5 more shots to go, I still remember it's Kodak E100G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papy_g1 Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 My 5 years' sister's son loves to get the Zenith 80 just to see trough it's finder, It can make him settle quietly a whole afternoon, far better than Disney's videos. More recently, my brother's wife told me that the LCD was quite bright while I had my Soligor TM's prism off to allow ground glass's moist to dry. And the Montréal airport cutoms officer stopped me and emptied half my hand luggage to see that "old heavy stuff", just for curiosity. He asked me if it it does good pictures, I just answered that if it didn't, I woudln't have taken such a boulder on my trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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