Do friends see you as "the one with big camera"?

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go somewhere with friend(s) (eg. special dinner of friends leaving the company, on holiday, museums, or just general walk around somewhere new). Because I am now known as "the one who always bring the big camera", they are no longer motivated to take photos, not even with their phone let along bring their point+shoot. so there is rarely any pictures of me. :shake:

I have to ask to get my photo taken with my camera, but then because they don't know how to use it, it'll usually be focused wrong, and too wide (they don't touch the lens to zoom). :'(


anyone else have this problem in their circle of non-photographer friends?
 
I have this with the wife. I take pics of kids all the time but not many of me with them!
 
I avoid taking my camera to family functions, including weddings, if possible.
 
I take pictures at a local primary school so am known to the children as 'The Camera Man' - even parents know me as that.

We as a family have loads of pictures of the kids, some of my wife but almost none of me - a blessing for all I guess....!
 
I've had the "We didn't book a photographer for our wedding because you were coming." line a few times. That's usually followed by "...er where's your camera?"
 
gm43uk said:
I've had the "We didn't book a photographer for our wedding because you were coming." line a few times. That's usually followed by "...er where's your camera?"
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...please be a joke, please be a joke... are people really that stupid?


Most of my friends still take their own though I have given friends a CD of pics of their pets before.
 
littlemonster said:
...please be a joke, please be a joke... are people really that stupid?


Most of my friends still take their own though I have given friends a CD of pics of their pets before.
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Not stupid just tight fisted relatives who want something for nothing. They've got the message now.
 
I don't tend to get this but if I want to be in pictures too it's either self timer or set the camera up to the most forgiving mode and hand it to the other half. Least she understands how the zoom ring works......just hate it if she takes a better picture than I can!
 
Nope. Never happened to me. Most of the people I know don't own cameras - other than on their phones - and have no interest in photography.

My sister in law did look at my 30D and say 'That's huge. Is it very old? Why don't you buy a small one, or are they too expensive?'. Of course, she was thinking about the evolution from brick cellphones to small ones.
 
Yup and I'm only new to it :-/
 
gm43uk said:
I've had the "We didn't book a photographer for our wedding because you were coming." line a few times. That's usually followed by "...er where's your camera?"
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I've had something similar - my brother was a retainer fireman and they done a charity panto every 2 yrs and one year a tog never showed up and because I used to take mine to them, he thought that I would be taking mine again this particular time... The only one time I didn't the tog didn't show up....

:thinking: Haven't a clue if he knew that I wasn't up to the pro standard or not thou :$
 
I get this a lot, not that i mind too much at least if I'm the only one taking pictures of myself I have full control over deleting the bad ones! ;-)
 
yep often.........

and proved today why a DSLR will outgun a P&S of similar vintage...

I could quite happily shoot my 2 newborns at f4 ISO 800 wit no noise, around 1/13 second....

My step aunt in law had a P&S... Given I told her she couldn't use flash (well S and A, don't like it as their eyelids as with all newborns are mega thin) didn't get a shot... she was telling me all about how this camera had face recognition... "Yes but I can recognise a face through the viewfinder...." this one is so much smaller... this one is so much bigger for many good reasons...



I will of course, let her have some of mine..
 
For me, it's always a 'can you just..' followed by whatever the family want doing. They're then disappointed if it's not how they wanted it.
 
This did make me laugh when I read this tonight as I was thinking about at the weekend. Over the past few months any event friends or family a few days before I only get text or message via facebook "are you coming to the event and wa wondering if you were bringing your camera" the wife gets the right arse with it all now. Doesn't bother me to be honest I like taking pics I don't drink a great deal these days and its excuse just to walk off if you don't want to talk to someone and oh I need to be over there.
I must admit I do not take it to weddings.

On a plus note it has got a few friends into photography.
 
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