jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

We were at an airport in China, and a soldier came over and waved his finger at me as I was about to take a shot with my little Canon Elph. I'm glad I wasn't hauled away.

par4fore Loc: Bay Shore N.Y.

IMO, never use auto flash, keep it off always and only turn it on if absolute needed. Auto flash can ruin far more than it can save. Use auto ISO.
I always get a kick on bus trips when some don't know how to turn it off and fire shots into the bus windows trying to capture images.
PS. no flash rule should be followed by all without it being said or posted where paintings and important documents are displayed.

Dannj

Dannj

..... I have noticed that the policy has been updated, NO Photography of any kind is allowed in the Historic Documents Room, in order to prevent such incidents of accidental flash![/quote]

So she actually caused them to change the rules?!?!?!
How cool is that🤪!🤪!🤪!☹️

Don709

I was asked to leave the Alamo because I had a Nikon D3200. Yet there were hundreds of people taking photos with cell phones. That was OK.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

I'll bet all the cell phone manufacturers and their agents paid off those people. Dirty rotten capitalists.

Dannj

I have been in sports venues where they essentially prohibit any camera with changeable lenses. The rationale is that these are professional type cameras and the output can be sold.

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

Not thrown out, but asked to temporally stop taking photographs. I was taking PR /Publicity Photographs in the Raleigh Cycle Works Nottingham. Couple of studio flashes in Brollies set up. After a few shots, was asked to stop shooting for a minute, while they sorted something-out. My flashes were triggering sensors on the Paint-Spray-Production-Line, which kept stopping, and starting. They shut down the line, I carried on shooting, and they re-started the spraying again after I had finished my Photo' session.

Gitchigumi Loc: Wake Forest, NC

Galileo's Museum in Florence, Italy. Apparently, the shutter of my film camera (pre-digital days) was loud enough to be heard by the docent. I was politely asked to stop. At least they didn't ask me to leave! Interesting place, though.

Stephan G

The bright lights can and do degrade the pigments used in the paintings. I understand that many old paintings are left with their films of grime over the years to protect the pigments.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

All of it or part of it?????
Been there before and never a problem.

Boomer Jim Loc: Newcastle Okla

Graceland: It was the lady next to me who took the picture. Didn't get thrown out after I showed that my flash was not on my camera. Pictures are allowed at Graceland, but not flash. She was not thrown out, but just scolded.

andiamo236

I was asked to desist photographing the US Steel Clairton, PA mill site (very early, on a cold winter morning). It is considered a vital inland port and protected by the TSA.

ka5ysy

Many years ago in Cakmakli, Turkey (west of Istanbul about 25 miles) one Saturday morning the Turk tank battalion based near us decided to do a practice battle outside and around our compound. I grabbed my trusty Nikon Ftn and climbed the 60 feet up the water tower inside our compound to take photos with my 50-300mm zoom lens. After about ten minutes I hear a vehicle below me and discover a Turk officer of some kind climbing up the tower.

I quickly realized he would likely grab the film, so rapidly rewound it and put it in my pocket, replacing it with an unexposed roll in the camera. The officer got to the top and essentially told me not to photograph the activity of his tanks as it was "secret". I "rewound" the unexposed film and handed it to him which satisfied him and off he went as I climbed down the water tower.

I often wonder what happened after he reported that he had retrieved the offending"secret" film to his superiors. Especially if someone actually developed those slides !

I have some really nice Ektachrome shots of WWII surplus Sherman tanks the Turks were using that day :)

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

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