No pro cameras rule
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Hey /p/,
I was just wondering how many of you abide by the demands of the event coordinator in these type of situations.
Last night I went to the fair with an xa, trying to be stealth, and I saw at least 8 hobbyists toting around L glass.
I guess my real question is can they really regulate "professional" camera equipment coming into a publicly accessible event?
In the US, any event can decide what they want to allow on their "rented / owned" space (this includes inside public parks and other government owned facilities - but this does NOT include a protest event unless they have rented space). If they decide you must wear a red shirt to be admitted and you walk up in a green shirt....they don't have to let you in. They can also tell you what you can say and do inside the event space and you are free to leave the event space to do as you please outside of it. The rub is, how well do the people at the entrances enforce the set rules and the people you saw may have been working for the event or press with a pass you didn't see.
>>2876763
bring a sony rx10iii.
>>2876763
A gun.
In a few cases, I took time a few weeks before an wvent to find the head of security and email him or her, explain that i am an amateur with a small interchangeable lens camera (usually a leica or a7r).
In many cases, I get a written ok and never failed to get in.