No Photography, No Viewing?

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I feel the same way when visiting Durham Cathederal it would be nice to be able to take some HD shots in the building.
Ian

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That's odd a few years ago whilst in Durham Cathedral I mentioned to one of the ushers/helpers? that I would like to see the misericords and he wouldn't let me out until I'd seen all of them and photographed as many as I wanted. This was using film so I didn't take more than a reel full as I didn't have that much time.

Totally different story in Hereford though

Bernard

That's it for me. I was going to fly the Lear jet over there for the weekend to do a museum tour, but I won't bother. Think I'll catch the train to the Sydney Royal Easter Show instead.
Regards

I have found some privately owned places ie. rosslyn chapel dont allow photography because they want you to buy their postcards

I can understand museums saying "no flash", as many items in their collections need to be kept in low light to preserve them. What annoys me is when this becomes "no photography".

Matt - I suspect 'no flash' gets upgraded to 'no photography' because of all the P&S users who don't seem able to switch off the built in flash. Shame that those of us who could and would be happy to take low light photographs without damaging the item are penalised as a result.

Steve

When it comes down to it quite a lot of flashes at 1/1000sec or even 1/10,000sec each would be needed to have any effect whatsoever.

However, no flash seems to be trundled out as a reason, just as "insurance reasons" used to be...it's all meaningless and unproven and just reflects that basically some people just love to make rules.

Flash photography is simply an annoyance to other people and kills the atmosphere in museums and cathedrals etc. It's a shame that as Steve says, this sometimes means all photographers are penalised, as people don't realise we can turn our flashes off.

They may well change their minds when visitor numbers begin to plummet,

A mobile phone can easily include not only a camera but notepad and voice reorder, how many people are going to put up with having to deposit a mobile phone at a ticket desk

I think we should organise a Pentax meet at this place, 100 of us turn up with very large identical camera bags and each carrying the same mobile phone, partners would have to carry large rucksacks, all identical of course, I wonder how much room they have at the ticket desk?

I'm just back from Chester cathedral. There was no problem taking photographs there thank goodness. I wanted to get photos of the Quire as my great(-great?) grandfather did the carvings. Just as well I could take pictures since there weren't any postcards of it.

I've never been to the BoB museum in Kent, even though it is not far from my sister-in-law. Doesn't look I will visit it after reading this.

I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to be able to take my camera in and photograph, provided of course it was strictly enforced so camera phones weren't allowed without payment too.

Visiting various Native American villages in Arizona and New Mexico we had to pay to take the camera in, but I was OK with that.

It's funny that gwyn should mention paying to take pictures, the salt mine on the outskirts of krakow in poland charge if you want to take pictures, if memory serves me it worked out about 75p which i did'nt mind

In response to Gwyn. I am pleased that Chester gets a mention, I've been wanting to go there for years but each time I get anywhere near I'm on the way to somewhere else. I was surprised you can trace your G....GF to 13th century, but you probably mean a refurbishment.

To all you may appreciate the following - I did try the 'link' button but couldn't get it to work properly - I'm still learning how to use this site.


"http://www.chester360.co.uk/chester-cathedral/quire"

regards
Bernard