Post the most ridiculous comments you've received with a big lens on!

Dont rub Mark in his mediocrity! That is not nice!!

Camera was 8. Add 10 more for the total package. You are just telling me now that I could have saved a bundle and captured motion?!?!?!? DOH!

Silver-Arrowz wrote:
Sometimes I dangle my camera below my waist and say to my mate shooting with a S3"mine's bigger than yours"

Haha thats class!

I was shooting a football game with my 70-200 f2.8L this weekend and one of the parents made the comment "man I bet you can shoot 2 or 3 blocks away with that lens".
I just laughed and said I wish!

And once when I had my 28-135 with the hood attached someone made the comment that the lens must have cost a couple thousands because it had that "THING" (hood) on it. lol

"What news Paper will this be for?"-Parent from a little league f.b. team.

People never cease to crack me up when they come up to me and say "oh my god that's a big camera!" (my 1D Mark IIN with 70-200 f/2.8L IS attached) and i just want to say "its not a big camera, its a big LENS... get it right!" but i usually say something a bit nicer than that lol.

It's a big camera too

fi20100 wrote:
It's a big camera too

A Big camera is a Canon Mark II N with a Canon 600mm f/4.

Oh come on, don't give me that. You know you enjoy messing him up too!

I had one yesterday while hand holding a 500f4isL with a 2x on .
A guy walked over and said "can you hand hold that" ? er well thats what im doing lol
Rob.

I don't know if these experiences apply but here they are:
1. Near my house is a collection of old buildings set up in a kind of 19th century village. I was there one morning early--just about the only person there with my gear on a tripod (can't remember which). I was by the building that was the administration and the curator came out and asked me what I was doing. He indicated that I could not be taking photos for commercial use. When I assured him it was for personal use, he said ok;
2. San Antonio. I had my Pentax 645 and was shooting hand-held. I was in the commercial area just off the riverwalk, I can't remember the name of it, but it's a collection of craft shops and other commercial places. I was taking a shot of the back window of a souvenir shop. It was not a display window but they had put shelves in it and were displaying glassware in the store. I heard a knock on the window and the woman shopkeeper was waving me away. Then the police woman acting as security for the store came out and told me I could not photograph here. I argued that I was on public land and had the right to shoot what I wanted. She insisted I had to leave but was backpeddling when she said it so I knew she understood what I said. I continued to shoot away.

The DNR guy was looking at me funny when he saw me out and about with the 300mm f2.8 L IS with 1.4x and 2x TCs, all on my tripod. Maybe he thought I was going to be (bang bang) shooting some of the eagles in the area.

Well, he couldn't see from his position if the images you got were all blurry or ok

Best regards,
Andy

a few years ago i thought i'd join a local walking club. Turned up for my first day, foubd the members to be a bit on the stuck up posh side, but however i decided to carry on with the walk as it was a great day for a walk on the hills, so pulled out my 20d with 17-35 lens to take a few shots and overheard two of them talking "oh he must have got that as a christmas present" grrr. Really made me happy when we discussing where we were on the map and i pointed out exactly where we where and got the response oh no son thats wrong we are here, i said i dont think so but they continued no no your wrong sure this is only your first day out with us {i forgot to mention to them i used to teach navigation skills on the mountins} the look on their faces when i proved them wrong.
its the little things

Reading this entire thread has entertained me for quite a while. I've enjoyed very many of your posts and specifically find Dante's to be the most interesting. Eventually I'll have some stories of my own!