fair.

I'll cite one more very specific example...
I worked at a Mental hospital.
There was a daycare center on the hospital grounds.
There was a forensics wing at the hospital.
3 Pedophiles at the hospital got day passes.
They did not hang around the daycare center while on day pass.
They did not own cameras.
They did however get caught trying to rent a house directly across from a grade school (same school my kids went to).....

It is idiotic to think violating Photographers rights is in any way shape or form going to protect your kids from these animals... a landlord near a park or school, checking references is much more effective.

the mother already made her descision when she went out in public.
Public means public, and photographers have the right to be there.
Who puts a skirt on a kid to go to the playground anyways?

they are useful at night if your goal is to shoot from inside a well lit building, in which case you could cut glare off the inside buildings windows.

I guess if you were trying to shoot the inside of a building from the outside and needed to remove some glare...
either way you are adding a 2 stop density filter in effect..... so practical uses are limited....

I would suggest plying him with liquor, but be forewarned, he has expensive tastes.....

I think JR knows somethiing we don't know...

the problem with that is there are people out there that think it's ok to make false accusations "Just in case" or "To err on the side of caution" and care nothing about ruining somebodies reputation, as if it somehow makes them better parents.

Saw that happen on facebook last month.
A guy who plays Santa at events, was falsely accused by a woman who thought nothing wrong with her 8 yr old kid having a facebook account open to the public, but though it was ok to smear a legitimate actors reputation...She accused him of being a pedophile... just to protect her kid from strangers.... Facebooks rule require you to be a certian age just to open an account so why would a responsible parent allow the kid to be there in the first place?
Turns out the mother friended Santa, and the daughter saw Santa pop up under "People you might know" and friended him, and the mans credentials and reputation were impeccable.

It not ok to treat everybody as guilty unless proven innocent.

I missed the part where he made that suggestion....
It is a valid point that by a huge margin, close to 95% of abusers where known to the family or related.
Child abusers, like con men trick ordinary people into handing over the children, just like con men fool people into handing over money.
They almost always win the parents over to get access to the kids.
A single mother should fear her babysitter more than a stranger at the park.

I agree Gartmore.
The situation is out of hand.
The Irony is this...
in the rare instance of stranger abduction, from a public place, the police often rely on people and businesses in the area that had cameras (security cams and regular cams) to see if anybody has the kidnapper on film.

The irony is you chase every parent/person/tourist away from the public parks, you reduce the chances that the police might have access to the suspect's photo.

Pentax Auto 110 had about the same sized film area as 4/3's, had a leaf shutter built into the body... and was an slr.
I think it would be a better descision for Pentax to release a digital 110 that is compatible with the old lenses and and have a line of lenses that can be sold for the 110 digital that share design elements with the 4/3's lenses so maybe Tokina can sell the same lens with different mounts for the 4/3's crowd as Pentax branded ones for Pentax 110 digital. (there is a certian model in Pentax's current lineup that may have been thrown out there to test the publics desire to buy a camera that looks like a mini d-slr)

Further I believe Pentax will release an aps-c or ff Evil class camera that will essentially be an Oly or Pany evil on steroids.... with a standard k mount.
A Pentax version of this:




yes the body will be thicker to accomadate the lens mount and WR(but maybe adding an i-ring control around the lens mount and it won't be as noticable) but when combined with a pancake lens it will actually be smaller than other aps-c evil cameras...