But you can use a compact camera :dunno: http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/24/kuwait_dslr_camera_ban/
I wonder where they stand on bridge cameras?
They probably wouldn't work well after being stood on.
:grn: :rofl: :karmic:
:ithank:
What about a compact camera with interchangable lenses?
Or a pair of binoculars with a camera built in?
Or a mobile phone with camera?
Quote from: Rik on Nov 24, 2010, 13:05:47
Or a mobile phone with camera?
Covered in the article. Cameras in phones are OK. If I ever go I'll take the Samsung Compact just in case they won't let me use the Fuji (Bridge Camera).
Steve
Do they already have a ban on film cameras?
How about camcorders? It's just so weird a ruling.
Surely it has to do with the zoom capability?
Lots of compacts now have significant zoom though, Mitch. :dunno:
Could it be to restrict the possibility of the use of telephoto lenses?
When I was at York Minster I saw someone with one mother of a telephoto lens.
Why should that be a problem, though, Mitch?
Pass, senesitive military installations or it being against Islam in some way?
But with some compacts offering 14Mp and a 600mm equivalent lens, it's crazy. Especially as the satellits would long since have captured the military bases. As for being anti-Islam, that would surely have to apply to any camera?
Pass Rik, am really speculating.
There was one religious group which felt that if you took their picture you captured their soul, but I haven't heard of that happening for a while now.
The Amish perhaps?
I think it was Hassidic Jews, when photography was first becoming widely used, Mitch, but I may be wrong.
Quote from: Rik on Nov 25, 2010, 15:23:04
I think it was Hassidic Jews, when photography was first becoming widely used, Mitch, but I may be wrong.
I thought it was those tribes in the forests? :dunno:
Something along the lines of their beliefs and paintings? As it's the first time they ever saw a photo, the only other thing in their history to relate it too is a voodoo doll! :eek4:
(Entirely hypothetical here :P)
I'm certainly not sure, Ben, I just remember noting it somewhere.
Turns out to be complete cobblers after all (http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MzAwMTg4ODg1). More kuwality journalism (see what I did there?).
Not just our newspapers then.
Seems not. :)