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

While at a volleyball game (Stanford v Penn St), holding the 70-200 f2.8 IS pointed at the ceiling, elbow on my knee between shots, lady behind me taps me on the shoulder, "can you move your camera, its blocking my view". I had been holding it that way for several minutes, waiting for my team to start playing well........

i got "you must be a REALLY GOOD photographer, can you tell me if i've got this (p&s) camera set up properly"

only had 40D with 24-105 on... imagine if id opened my bag and hauled out the bigma. man, i wish it was that simple to convince people i AM a really good photographer lol

ssidiv3r wrote in post #4466359
I haven't been able to get out shooting for a while so no comments to post

being Iraqis I would have thought they would know what a gun is supposed to look like

Maybe they weren't Iraqis... There's a lot of that goin round over there.

tkoutdoor wrote in post #4529381
Maybe they weren't Iraqis... There's a lot of that goin round over there.

Ok, well then as "PEOPLE" they should have recognised what wasn't a gun, given the fact that they live there NOW.

Only comments I've gotten recently were from people on here telling me to go shooting more.

"Hey, that guy looks like he knows what he is doing!" exclaims a husband to his wife as they pawn their camera off on me to take their picture.

Boy was he wrong.

my wife and I got told to put our cameras away because we didn't have a media pass at a hockey game last week

I guess the 100-400 + 40D and my wife next to me with an XT + 70-200F4 was a bit much though, lol

ssidiv3r wrote in post #4530593
Ok, well then as "PEOPLE" they should have recognised what wasn't a gun, given the fact that they live there NOW.

Only comments I've gotten recently were from people on here telling me to go shooting more.

LOL, I was referring to an insurgent population floating in from surrounding countries. Agreed, an adult human being should be able to identify a gun, specially one who puts them to use.

i was taking a picture of the building in Vancouver and i was using a 70-200 lens and people where going like watch out that thing is blocking the side walk, was pretty funny cuz like 10 people mentiond it that day.

When i got my 70-200 2.8 IS L it arrived mum and dad sat down next to me when i opened it and dad goes "Oh........ Oh [LONG PAUSE] Its F*cking White!"

NSWESP wrote in post #4533363
When i got my 70-200 2.8 IS L it arrived mum and dad sat down next to me when i opened it and dad goes "Oh........ Oh [LONG PAUSE] Its F*cking White!"

HAHAHAHAHA brilliant - what a huge shame it wasnt pink or something, that would have been even better

Well, I'm not going to read through 200+ pages of comments to see if someone else said this, but I HAVE been asked if it came with a white camera....

Elton Balch wrote in post #4535414
Well, I'm not going to read through 200+ pages of comments to see if someone else said this, but I HAVE been asked if it came with a white camera....

lol tell them no, but it does come with a washing machine and dryer as part of the set

While shooting baseball at night for the local paper (20D+grip mated to a 300mm f/2.8 IS L) I was positioned in a nice sport reserved for photographers taking shots of the batter:

Some guy in the crowd "Hey, photo guy? What's the zoom on that lens?" I reply: "nothing" The guy replied "Well, I bet you can spot the moon through that lens." I remark: "and without it too =)"
takes him a second to burst out laughing

tkoutdoor wrote in post #4531768
LOL, I was referring to an insurgent population floating in from surrounding countries. Agreed, an adult human being should be able to identify a gun, specially one who puts them to use.

when I had my nikon stuff I almost got mistaken for another person with a paintball gun and was almost shot at. I only had the d70 with 80-200 2.8...don't worry, I've switched to canon so hopefully this new white lens of mine will be more visible as a camera than a paintball gun.

Guineh wrote in post #4528228
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.

had a couple hand me their p/s camera and I put it in my pocket and said thank you I collect those.after their eyes got as big as saucers I pulled it out and took their picture