Way out west
I went to a music festival here in Göteborg last week-end. Neil Young played and I really wanted to see him.
In the meantime I meandered around with my wife and took a picture or two.
It wasn’t easy. “No professional cameras allowed” was one of the rules.
They went on to define professional cameras as:
1) Single lens reflex
2) Exchangeable lenses
I thought about a IIIf. I should be able to sneak one of them by, but I was afraid of criterium nr 2. Same thing with regard to a FED-2.
Decided to take a Rolleiflex. Hung it around my neck and just walked right past the goons (but they were very nice goons, I might add).
I got all kinds of comments and it was a real ice-breaker. A lot of people came up to me admiring the camera.
This girl was really fascinated by it. So much so she wanted to take a picture with it. So I told her not to move. Focused on her, took a shot, wound forward a frame and handed her the camera so she could take a picture of me.
Otherwise, I spent most of the time looking at others’ backs:
You could actually hear the music better from way back:
I would not have handed over my camera to a stranger, unless I was sure I could run faster than he or she could. 🙂
Comment by Dave Wyman — August 19, 2008 @ 8:26 am