Re: PC 04, I agree with Christian :-)

[Mathieu Harlaut]

Hi,

But I have seen cameras everywhere!!!!  Some were even carrying 2 
cameras.

It seems to me that the goal of such an event is to live the action not 
to take pictures or to bring souvenirs home. When the event is 100% 
authentic then the souvenirs are in your head and it is far more 
valuable.

I know it is a bit  heart breaking sometimes  but it  is a simple rule 
of re-enactment: don't use modern item, if you must, use it only when 
no one can see you.  3 issue of Pentecost event showed us that cameras 
are never discreet.

By the way, I think that pictures taken during events are never the 
best for re-enactment. There comes a time when they all look the same. 
The best way to have pictures is to do a special shooting session.

All the best,

Mathieu

Le 15 juin 04, à 02:14, Ivo Malz a écrit :

> Hello.
>
> Nothing to add from my side except one thing- the camera issue.
> We must not forget that the Reichsaufgebot is made up of a lot of 
> different
> groups, and every group to some extent must be granted the "right" to 
> take
> their souvenir pictures for their individual event documentation on 
> their
> individual homepages.
>
> Even if we now have a common website, the pictorial documentation is 
> only as
> colourful as it is because the photographs come from different 
> sources, i.e.
> different people from different groups. That multi- angled view is what
> spices thing up to my mind.
>
> In short, I´d prefer the one camera per group rule to any official
> photographer weasling around. Of course cameras to a certain extent 
> disturb
> the athmosphere, but as long as there´s only the "quick out, click, 
> quickly
> stuffed away" cameras and not any "group photographer in charge" 
> running
> around with a massive telescope in front of a 6x6 camera on a tripod, 
> I´d
> leave things to this year´s rule, be it imperfect or not, and keep 
> preaching
> the "use your camera less obviously" gospel.
>
> Seems more practical, by the way, for one obvious reason- if there´s
> something of individual interest and I needed a picture of it, I´d 
> have to
> call for the offivial photographer- and most probably join a massive 
> queue
> of other people in waiting.
> Sounds like a case for Doc Wanja at the end of the day- another guy 
> gasping
> from exhaustion and needing an infusion.
>
> Regards
>
> Ivo
>
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