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so what do you do with chrome cameras ?
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12-03-2006
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Chrome cameras are left alone, black cameras are blacked out. It's how I like it. Why does that bother some people?
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12-03-2006
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living 24fps
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so what do you do with chrome cameras ?
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Make sure it's an M2, M3 or MP. Then at least you don't have to worry about red dots or engraving on the front. It will still be somewhat less stealthy than a black camera and more easily seen in wondows, glass reflections, etc.
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I certainly didn't intend to insult or ridicule anyone here about whether or not you tape up your cameras. After reading the post here I can see some very good reasons for doing so. One thing i've learned for sure is that some of you guys ought to get hazard duty pay  going into some of the neighborhoods you do. To me this is what real photojurnalism is all about and what makes street photography so exciting.
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I had a Fuji S2 as my first digital camera....it was a reasonable good camera and did give very good results BUT the most important part of this camera was the little bit of gaffa tape that covered the word "fine pix".... can't really turn up to shoot a clients job with "fine pix".....maybe "great pix" (maybe not)... or maybe "absolutely fantactic pix"...... why it couldn't just say Fuji....thank god for gaffa
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We all have different taste buds. It's all good. What I don't understand is how it seems that some people are offended by others choosing to black out their cameras and sometimes ridicule them for doing so. Live and let live, no?
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hopefully people don't feel ridiculed by me...i just think it's funny.
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I think it's funny that you would think it's funny. 
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it's called play fighting. i doubt anything we discuss here could ever escalate into real fighting. it's not meaningful enough. politics (see other thread) is another matter.
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different strokes...
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living 24fps
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different strokes...
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Like double stroke M3's vs. single stroke? ; )
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Hey, I just like the way an all black camera looks. I generally choose not wear company logo advertisements on t-shirts and sweatshirts either.
BTW, I loved that movie and enjoy watching UFC and mixed martial arts matches. Something very visceral in it.
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chrome tape???
i have a chrome m6ttl that's taped up. tape used for heating ducts etc. matches my "ridiculous" or "delusional" belief in "taped' up cameras perfectly... but i suppose that after 20 some odd years wandering the streets of thedowntown eastside of vancouver and never losing a single camera... well my delusion suits me just fine.
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12-03-2006
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i have shot in new york, used to live there, shot in austria, across canada, driving, and the u.s.a. when i did a motorcycle trip cross country, lots in vancouver, used to visit a bit.
all without tape on my cameras and never had a problem either.
we're just 2 lucky guys, eh?
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downtown eastside vancouver...
with taped up gear!!!
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luck |
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luck
knock on canadian maple eh???
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taped up gear... |
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taped up gear...
again i do not attest it all to those controversial little bits of tape... just a very LOW profile. part of which includes the tape!
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I have a question: why do some folks buy black cameras instead of chrome? Do they think that it makes the camera is less visible? Do they think others can't see that they are holding a (black) box up to their eye and taking pictures? Now that's funny.
Or maybe is it jsut because they happen to like the look of a camera in black? How much more of a stretch is it to understand that some folks like their cameras ALL black?
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We all have different taste buds. It's all good. What I don't understand is how it seems that some people are offended by others choosing to black out their cameras and sometimes ridicule them for doing so. Live and let live, no?
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Bill Jay in Lenswork magazine (a couple of issues ago) mildly ridiculed the use of tape. I got the impression that he felt the use of tape was an effort to be cool, but that the really hyper-cool people (like himself, perhaps) were beyond that.
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I have a question: why do some folks buy black cameras instead of chrome? Do they think that it makes the camera is less visible? Do they think others can't see that they are holding a (black) box up to their eye and taking pictures? Now that's funny.
Or maybe is it just because they happen to like the look of a camera in black? How much more of a stretch is it to understand that some folks like their cameras ALL black?
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All my early cameras were the standard chrome with black composite (Pentax Spotmatic.) But the first time I saw an all-black Nikon I thought, "That's nice." I think I like black cameras for the same reason that I like brown-eyed women, while admitting that blue-eyed women are also wonderful.
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ridicule?!?!? |
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ridicule?!?!?
geez man! i wish someone had let me know i was in a position of ridicule! i better get a peelin'!!!
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i mean if it wasn't for ridicule i'd still be wearing my corey heart t-shirt! thank god for ridicule...
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If not ridicule then at least condescension. I just want to stand up to it and show how petty that attitude is.
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Just Bob
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I don't want to cause any trouble, but I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla when out in a crowd.
But to be fair I prefer chocolate icing on chocolate cake.
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We're all light!
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If I wanted to tape up a camera, I'd get a Holga...hold it – I'd have to tape that thing up, but for different reasons...
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I just carry that other piece of finely crafted German engineering along with my Leica, an HK P7M8.
No tape for me thank you.
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