On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:30:53 -0700, SMS wrote:

On 3/14/2011 8:01 PM, Rich wrote:
On Mar 14, 7:45 pm, wrote:
Was at a concert last week at my kid's high school, and before it
started there were the usual requests to a) turn off your cell phones,
b) no flash photography, c) don't use LCDs on camcorders or cameras, use
the viewfinder.

As usual there were the annoying people in the audience recording the
entire performance with the LCD illuminated the whole time. I wonder if
the concertmaster even realized how few new P&S cameras and camcorders
even have a viewfinder any more.

Personally I wish they would just ban all photography and recording at
these performances, and enforce it. Most of the videos and photos are
exceedingly poor quality anyway because of the lighting, plus the school
offers a DVD of the whole performance for just a few bucks. If you want
a photo of your kid from the audience you can't get it without a D-SLR
with a good quality IS lens, but you can always go up to the stage after
the concert for photos.

Can't imagine the anxiety it must cause the retarded P&S'ers when they
have to figure out how to turn off the flash!!!

LOL, most would have no idea how to do this.

It was pretty funny to see one person in the audience with a Flip video
camera attached to a big tripod crammed in front of him. At least it has
no flash. Of course he ended up with a very poor quality video, but he
managed to annoy everyone around him.

They did allow flash photography between pieces, and most people
respected that rule. It's not just the flash either, it's all the
beeping and the shutter noise (both real and simulated).

Ooo... Troll on Troll Action! Don't they sell this in some secret
ADULTS-ONLY room in the back?

LOL!