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

Stupid question, but why did you not check in the monopod?

It's not exactly in the same category of fragility as cameras and lenses...

Best regards,
Andy

NSWESP wrote in post #4492654
Me: Sticks monopod down pants (Only place it would fit) HAHA

LOL i wouldnt boast about that...

somethingsimple wrote in post #4493356
LOL i wouldnt boast about that...

Ok, I should confirm that i put it down beside my leg on the outside!

Andy_T wrote in post #4493317
Stupid question, but why did you not check in the monopod?

It's not exactly in the same category of fragility as cameras and lenses...

Best regards,
Andy

Domestic flight, No checked lugage and didnt want the hassle of going to baggagec claim to wait hours for a monopod.

I wonder if they would take the same attitude about my cane? Don't see how a monopod is all that different, and I am quite sure that I both know how to and my cane is able to do considerable damage.

Wayne

"you wouldn't deprive an old man of his walking stick, would you?"
"i gave orders that his staff was to be removed"
"silence, wormtongue! down snake, on your belly!"

LOL

My dad has a retractable walking stick that's exactly like my monopod.

I managed to get a tripod through security in 2 U.S. airports (including Newark) without security so much as batting an eye.

I just put mine in a tripod bag and carry it on. It has never been questioned.

To clarify mine wasnt in a bag, Hand held.

NSWESP wrote in post #4493124
Yeh Supervisor let me through, I was going to stick the monopod in the gaurds you know where if the supervisor didnt come!

Nice.. and get yourself arrested and miss your flight! Clever one there.

I was an ad agency Account Executive supervising a still photo shoot somewhere in public a few years back. Use your best "Ernest" hillbilly accent when you say,

"Are you guys makin' a movie?"

We still use that as a rallying cry in all public shoots.

Oh yeah, I get that all the time. "Is that a video camera?" "No, it's a still"

I got this from my math instructor when I used my 40D (no grip) and a 70-200mm F4 IS (hood on of course).

"Holy Mackerel! Is that a freaking bazooka?"

revelatio wrote in post #4501587
I got this from my math instructor when I used my 40D (no grip) and a 70-200mm F4 IS (hood on of course).

"Holy Mackerel! Is that a freaking bazooka?"

I just got my 70-200 F4 IS, and the first comment I got on it was come jerk off at Disneyland with a smirk look that said "should have got the 2.8"

I followed it by, "I have that one at home, it weighs more and isn't as sharp as this one"

He didn't really say anything else, funny thing is he was holding a Rebel XT with a 220ex and what I think was a 18-200 siggy.. phhhh... I also got a clear view at the fact that it was in Auto (green square)

Lately I tend to be running into people who hand me their inscrutable p&s cameras and ask me to take pictures of them, usually qualified with "Since you know how to work that camera of yours, and I've seen your pictures, you can obviously do better than me [with my camera]"

No, no I cannot. I don't understand how your device operates... I understand most of how to operate my camera, I know how to get the most out of it. I can't get the most out of your camera, because I haven't taken more than 30 seconds to figure out what it's capable of, only where the freaking shutter button is.