Something that just hit me...

That's a great "Pen Story" Dj. I do know what you mean about cameras opening up connections. I haven't had your experience yet, but am sure I will down the line.

 

You can have my slr when you take it out of my cold dead hands... Lol... I don't think I would ever hand it off to have a picture taken... Don't think I would hand my pen off either... Maybe.... Gorillapod ftw!

 

I never hand over my camera to a stranger. I always remember the scene from European Vacation, where the stranger runs off with the Griswold's video camera. Not that my camera would have any of the content theirs had... :smile:

I do get asked to take pictures quite often, and always oblige. I have never run away with anybody's camera either.

Regards,

Antonio

 

call me gullible

Well, if someone looks like they "can handle it" I do ask. I'll switch the camera into P, or M, do my settings, and tell them to press lightly, pause, then press hard.

 

When I'm out my behavior is the opposit:
When I see persons with a camera, everybody is shooting each other, one is always missing. Then I'll ask to make the pic. In 95% people agree, the other 5% don't survive.... Just a joke, err but this is some kind of training for me to get into contacts with unknown persons.

Last year in Prague I made photographs of a young couple, my Nikon buddy shot me and both and another from our gang shot my buddy, me and the couple.
At the end we could show in the travel thread the 'making of the making of Bernie's streetpics with a p+s camera of unknown brand.

 

Bernd, I do the same thing in that I offer to use their camera to take their picture. I've never had anyone be anything but happy about it.

Alan that is a wonderful photo - have to ask where you were?

 

Nice to see you in "real" photographic life, Dj and what a great spot you were in with that waterfall... Clearly I am living in the wrong part of the world right about now.

 

Here in Japan, people don't run away with other people's cameras. (Doing so would be considered very ill-mannered.)

This fellow has had four or five (depending on how you count) books published of portraits he takes in one very clearly defined area of Tokyo. He sees somebody who looks interesting, asks if he may photograph them, and, if he gets an OK, takes the photograph, which may well be exhibited. He doesn't display his camera otherwise, and doesn't have the other accoutrements of a photographer. While he's standing, waiting and looking (Hasselblad out of sight), tourists not infrequently ask him if he wouldn't mind taking their photographs (of course with their own cameras). If only they knew....

 

Point Lobos, don’t remember the specific cove behind us. Point Lobos is a CA State Reserve, near Carmel. I think it’s my favorite bit of coast in northern California, and there is a LOT of incredible coast. That was a rainy day, and the weather had just broken.

 

Gorgeous shot!! Mmmmmmmmm!!

 

I once had about £3000-worth of Nikon SLR thrust into my hands by a Japanese couple in George Square in glasgow... I put them on the train to Edinburgh, camera intact and safe!

 

I had to take a picture not long ago, but had nothing but rocks to put my poor camera on.