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Somewhat off topic, but I found it incredibly ironic the time (at our company, not AOL) I was told not to take pictures of a slide deck being presented at an al

Somewhat off topic, but I found it incredibly ironic the time (at our company, not AOL) I was told not to take pictures of a slide deck being presented at an all hands (I could barely make it out from where I was, and I would use my iPhone to zoom in) - given that every single person (numbering in the hundreds) on the conference call was able to just screen shot each and every page of the presentation. People are weird about camera's "visibly" in their presence. Have you ever noticed how places like Starbucks will go absolutely batshit if you take out a zoom lens (like a 70-200 on a Canon SLR), but not blink an eye if you snap pictures with your iPhone. I wonder if anyone in audience was wearing GoogleGlass at the time...

hnriot 13y ago
"Have you ever noticed how places like Starbucks will go absolutely batshit if you take out a zoom lens (like a 70-200 on a Canon SLR)" no, not at all, maybe it's different in different parts of the country, but if you start shooting with a long telephoto inside a coffee shop its pretty rude to the people there. If you want to take photos in coffee shops use a more discreet camera and a 35mm lens, not a telephoto, it will look less creepy.
- hga 13y ago
  Extending this, a normal power lens by definition "sees" about what your eye can see, a telephoto much, much more.
  - ghshephard 13y ago
    Inside a though, zoomed out, in dark light - my telephoto lens is pretty much useless. People are just put off by the sheer physicality of the lens, not so much what it is doing. Likewise, (getting back on topic) - the poor guy fired at the AOL event wasn't fired for what he was doing, so much as the fact that he was visibly doing it.
- ghshephard 13y ago
  You're repeating the point I was trying to make - the Long Telephoto lens freaks people out, but my iPhone (which actually does a better job of capturing details in low light than my EOS-10D+70-200) has always been ignored. The big lens is considered "rude" and looks "creepy" whereas the discreet camera (or iPhone) doesn't cause issues. It has nothing to do with what you are doing, just what you are doing it with.

hnriot 13y ago

"Have you ever noticed how places like Starbucks will go absolutely batshit if you take out a zoom lens (like a 70-200 on a Canon SLR)" no, not at all, maybe it's different in different parts of the country, but if you start shooting with a long telephoto inside a coffee shop its pretty rude to the people there. If you want to take photos in coffee shops use a more discreet camera and a 35mm lens, not a telephoto, it will look less creepy.

hga 13y ago
Extending this, a normal power lens by definition "sees" about what your eye can see, a telephoto much, much more.
- ghshephard 13y ago
  Inside a though, zoomed out, in dark light - my telephoto lens is pretty much useless. People are just put off by the sheer physicality of the lens, not so much what it is doing. Likewise, (getting back on topic) - the poor guy fired at the AOL event wasn't fired for what he was doing, so much as the fact that he was visibly doing it.
ghshephard 13y ago
You're repeating the point I was trying to make - the Long Telephoto lens freaks people out, but my iPhone (which actually does a better job of capturing details in low light than my EOS-10D+70-200) has always been ignored. The big lens is considered "rude" and looks "creepy" whereas the discreet camera (or iPhone) doesn't cause issues. It has nothing to do with what you are doing, just what you are doing it with.