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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
Some agencies, like New Jersey Transit and PATH, claim that anyone
caught taking photographs of their system will be arrested. So I wonder, has anyone ever been arrested or detained by the police for a long period of time, for taking a photo? Malls can be touchy about it too. With the post 9-11 paranoia going strong, many people have claimed to be questioned or harassed by the police. The closest case I've heard personally of an arrest was an individual who was taking photographs of the light rail (trolley) system in New Jersey, HBLR, which is run by NJT. They were detained for a few hours, and forced to either delete the photos they took, or be arrested and/or having their cameras seized. With law enforcement so hell bent on violating individual civil rights, perhaps it's better to find a way to hide your camera. |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable
lens. Phil JohnCM wrote: Some agencies, like New Jersey Transit and PATH, claim that anyone caught taking photographs of their system will be arrested. So I wonder, has anyone ever been arrested or detained by the police for a long period of time, for taking a photo? Malls can be touchy about it too. With the post 9-11 paranoia going strong, many people have claimed to be questioned or harassed by the police. The closest case I've heard personally of an arrest was an individual who was taking photographs of the light rail (trolley) system in New Jersey, HBLR, which is run by NJT. They were detained for a few hours, and forced to either delete the photos they took, or be arrested and/or having their cameras seized. With law enforcement so hell bent on violating individual civil rights, perhaps it's better to find a way to hide your camera. |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable lens. Where and why ? |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
A music event in Palm Springs and I did not ask why.
Chuck wrote: No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable lens. Where and why ? |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
"Chuck" wrote in message ... : : No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable : lens. : : : Where and why ? : I took my SLR to a big annual music festival in Atlanta a few years ago and was told I couldn't use it, apparently because some performers were concerned about people profiting from photos taken at the event. I was told I had to surrender either my film or my batteries, or leave the camera at the gate. I gave up the batteries (not without complaint, of course) and proceeded to shoot anyway, using a manual shutter speed and guesstimating exposures. Got some good shots, too. The rules are probably stricter now. Paul |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
In article , Phil Wheeler
wrote: A music event in Palm Springs and I did not ask why. my guess would be because cameras with removable lenses are higher quality and the users sometimes professional photographers. the photos from them could be good enough to sell and they wanted to protect agaisnt that from happening. photos from consumer cameras would be unlikely to be able to zoom in close enough, let alone even get the exposure right. a removable lens is an overly simplistic way to differentiate between the pros and the amateurs. |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
Some venues claim that a camera with a removable lens makes you a pro, and
therefore likely to be taking images for publication. I ran into this in Balboa Park in San Diego, the Japanese Garden wanted me to pay them $500 to photograph inside. I agreed, with the proviso that they close the gardens to the public, since I was going to (in their eyes) use the images for profit, I wanted the best images possible, without the interference of tourists. They refused, so I left. -- Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com "Phil Wheeler" wrote in message ... A music event in Palm Springs and I did not ask why. Chuck wrote: No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable lens. Where and why ? |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
Phil Wheeler writes:
Chuck wrote: No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable lens. Where and why ? A music event in Palm Springs and I did not ask why. It's common to ban photography at public performances; presumably to maintain their control over images of the valuable performers. This sounds like maybe a compromise, intended to allow people snapshots of their big fun, while still protecting the commercially usable photos. And will no doubt become less common since there are so many high-quality digital cameras with long-zoom fixed lenses on them :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
I was killing time in the airport in NY one morning, shooting the empty
escalators, etc. Some Nazi-rent-a-security gave me a bunch of grief claiming I'd be arrested if I continued... homeland security and all... |
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Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?
Inside the airport is covered by the Patriot act and is illegal. It's posted
in almost every airport I've been in. Not sure what the photos would do for you. Tom "JustaPawn" wrote in message ... I was killing time in the airport in NY one morning, shooting the empty escalators, etc. Some Nazi-rent-a-security gave me a bunch of grief claiming I'd be arrested if I continued... homeland security and all... |
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