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Images must be from a Pentax/Samsung camera...
it is my impression and experience that the mods on this forum are very reasonable and quite laid back (certainly by comparison to other forums I have participated in). I therefore find it very unlikely that John Riley or any of the others has the time or inclination to sift through the EXIF of ever...
Posted by robbie_d on 11/05/2010 - 12:51
Here we go again
Rent-a-cops have no more legal powers than you or I, you're perfectly within your rights to walk away from them and leave the area. If they try to grab you then it becomes assault. They have no right to see images, cannot search you, and cannot force you to delete images. A friend of mine used t...
Posted by Dangermouse on 12/05/2010 - 13:47
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Well put Stefan! My ( and I stress my ) opinion is this: The (now previous) government brought in so many laws which eroded civil liberties. The laws were, for the most, poorly worded, allowing for mis-interpretation. Or, was this deliberate to allow for easily extending their use without having...
Posted by Father Ted on 12/05/2010 - 15:59
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... It is this kind of thing which has led to the mis-trust building up over the past decade to levels I have never seen before. That's SO true! I don't think that I've ever seen (in the last 2 or 3 decades) a piece of legislation, once passed, that hasn't been misinterpreted out of all proportion a...
Posted by Argee on 12/05/2010 - 16:53
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The genie's well and truly out of the bottle now and it would take a massive upheaval and probably some European Court action to get it all back to a reasonable position again. Wasn't the UK against the EU Constitution :wink:
Posted by Anvh on 12/05/2010 - 17:01
Here we go again
Well put Stefan! My ( and I stress my ) opinion is this: The (now previous) government brought in so many laws which eroded civil liberties. The laws were, for the most, poorly worded, allowing for mis-interpretation. Or, was this deliberate to allow for easily extending their use without having...
Posted by Pentaxophile on 12/05/2010 - 19:51
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Sometimes I wonder why these things happen. Could it be the way we behave? Once I have been approached by security, while taking pictures of airplanes at their stand in a Norwegian airport. Very polite he asked why I was photographing, and just as polite I explained my great interest in avionics,...
Posted by polchraine on 12/05/2010 - 23:24
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Going back to my original post - a photographer being stopped and questioned by police , today I came across these reports and Hmmmmm these seem to contradict what the Met have said - though of course it has to be remembered that the Met and the City Police are two different Poli...
Posted by techno-terminator on 15/05/2010 - 08:03
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I do believe one's attitude affects the outcome of such encounters. That's true on both sides and not just the photographer. From what I hear here on the forum it seems the UK police is more intimidating then in the Netherlands at least and it seems that's where most problems start. Like David s...
Posted by Anvh on 15/05/2010 - 20:20
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Our new coalition government has among the policies agreed between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats the intention to roll back some of the inroads on civil liberty perpetrated by the outgoing government. I hope they get round to it but suspect that there may be more urgent priorities - like s...
Posted by helios on 15/05/2010 - 20:54
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whom he shall have just Cause to suspect of any evil Designs Presumably they were on the lookout for masked figures in capes! I remember being moved on for 'loitering' by the police when I was a teenager... I was rather outraged and felt it was very unfair... but in those days, an authority figur...
Posted by Pentaxophile on 16/05/2010 - 11:01
Good photography book?
I tend to look in second hand shops as there are often some good basic books. Occasionaly i have found some inspirational ones such as 'Nature' and 'photographing the World Around You' by Freeman Patterson and arty books such as those by Richard Long. Yes arty books are also my form of inspirati...
Posted by Anvh on 16/05/2010 - 21:57
Camera shops diappearing
If I want Pentax stuff - then I'm forced online and I'd prefer to see something and handle it before I buy it when I'm parting with , what to me is a lot of my hard earned cash from my working days . You should be able to send it back within a time limit if the product was not what you expected it t...
Posted by Anvh on 13/05/2010 - 14:37
Camera shops diappearing
I suspect it's more likely that buyers will order goods in, inspect them, and keep or reject them within 7 days. This is not a great way to do business and would lead to masses of previuously handled "new" goods and masses of refurbished items. Prices would go up, no doubt. Putting shop premises ...
Posted by johnriley on 12/01/2013 - 16:57
Camera shops diappearing
Some shops in the US will now match any online prices, notably Best Buy who will match any online price from US suppliers, and Target who will match Amazon prices of US companies. I suspect more shops will try this strategy to stay in business. I recently bought a lens at Best Buy, but they have ...
Posted by aliengrove on 13/01/2013 - 12:36
Jessops
Jessops with a ridiculous pricing regime locally, plus department stores drove my local store - EFC out of business a few years back.
Posted by polchraine on 13/05/2010 - 10:06
Jessops
The point at which The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights is quoted is the point at which any discussion of forum moderation or behaviour becomes pointless - its a the short step before Godwin's Law occurs! Robbie - please, take step back, its a very minor decision, and not worth wasting your ...
Posted by flossie on 14/05/2010 - 10:19
Jessops
Really!.. Making flippant and impertinent posts in other peoples threads!. Some people, eh! :wink: Yeah, Jessops is crap. But it wasn't always so. Many members of this forum, who havn't been into photography for very long, will not know that Jessops was once a very good and respected buisiness...
Posted by mowog on 14/05/2010 - 21:00
Jessops
Has another post been edited on this thread? polchraine posted a comment before you but I've no idea who removed and I don't care to be honest. Lets just drop the matter since it was just going so well on this forum at the start of the year and now all these tensions are coming back again :cry:
Posted by Anvh on 16/05/2010 - 23:42
Are you ready for the safety test?
I wonder how close to the line you need to be for this to take effect. If you have to be "Lineside" ie. less than 2m from the line, then it makes sense. I've done the PTS training ( Personal Trackside Safety ) to allow me to work on the railway. As part of the training, we were taken out the ba...
Posted by Father Ted on 14/05/2010 - 12:45
