DSLR's banned at Aldwych station

Nonsense sign not only as it has been wtitten by someone with a clue about photography but also as it implies you can't even take one into the station even if you don't intended to use it.
 
I hope this is not the start of a new trend of restricting certain types of cameras.
 
Aldwich station is closed, but still heavily used as a film location, and I suspect the sign relates people taking DSLRs on set for a particular production.

But the Internet will ignore this important fact and continue to rant... cos that's what it's good at :)
 
This is not the only "closed " station to have this though, there was a thread on here a few weeks back about another station banning DSLR's from being used there.

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Ffoeg said:
Aldwich station is closed, but still heavily used as a film location, and I suspect the sign relates people taking DSLRs on set for a particular production.

But the Internet will ignore this important fact and continue to rant... cos that's what it's good at :)
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On another photography web site they state that the public were barred from using DSLR's on two recent "open weekends" where they had to pay £20 for the privilege of going inside the station.

Who knows what's really behind it?
 
I appreciate that this is likely to do with being a filming location, but have seen similar threads where a site owner wants to ban "professional" photography, therefore states "no DSLR's". It's a bit ignorant to be honest, what if someone rocked up with a Panny GH? Would they accept the explanation that it has no reflex mirror therefore is not an SLR, despite looking a little like one? Hmmm...

That said, I'm glad that this technical ignorance means that smaller CSC's can remain surreptitious while still producing excellent images. For the time being...
 
Maybe we should all go with film slrs, and then spend ages getting light meter readings etc...
 
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.u...ials_blame_spiral_staircase__news_310747.html

there were restrictions on professional cameras and tripods because we were concerned that people using them could delay the tours for others, as it was a very tight schedule with more the 2,500 visitors going up and down a spiral staircase of about 160 steps to get to and from the platforms
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Thats why... makes sense to me, they were trying to stop primadonnas arsing about.

Did laugh at the comment on that page:

Fellow photographer Paul Vincent wrote on Twitter: 'One chap brought a 35mm [film] SLR.'
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the post above said:
there were restrictions on professional cameras and tripods because we were concerned that people using them could delay the tours for others, as it was a very tight schedule with more the 2,500 visitors going up and down a spiral staircase of about 160 steps to get to and from the platforms
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That aspect does make sense, but surely it would make more sense to ban tripods, which is the norm in many museums, churches, and attractions... and no-one would have batted an eyelid :thinking:
 
probably... but also someone with a "pro camera" is more likely to be a pain when you try to hurry them along...

I can see what they were trying to achieve, but the wording was wrong.
 
Very unremarkable station anyway, used to use it regularly when I maintained the telephones in Somerset House.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Very unremarkable station anyway, used to use it regularly when I maintained the telephones in Somerset House.
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Yeah but it's disused so members of 28 days later will be having wet dreams about it lol
 
It's not even "disused" in the pure sense of the word, not in the way urbex'ers would like to see (ie, left as it was, dusty, paint peeling etc) so has little interest for them.

It's practically a museum piece, but only in the fact that it appears restored rather than "disused".

I was lucky enough to be there when they filmed scenes for the Bond movie Die Another Day, the place looked like a glossy film set before the crew even got there!
 
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