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Tripod mistaken for gun

Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 16:11:02 No.2706873 View View Reply Original Report

Someone called the police because they thought a photographer with a tripod was carrying a gun:

http://petapixel.com/2015/11/19/911-called-after-photographers-tripod-mistaken-for-machine-gun/

How many more innocent people need to be shot before we ban assault tripods?

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 17:41:33 No.2706911 Report

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Yeah it happens. Telephoto lenses get attention too. People think you're carrying a grenade launcher.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 17:52:45 No.2706918 Report

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assault camera.
bring this to trump's inauguration.

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A Curly W !!d+3ubXGZ/SG Fri 20 Nov 2015 20:07:09 No.2707005 Report

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I got 3 cops called on me last night for taking photos about 10 minutes away from my house on a main road yesterday. Said they got a call about someone acting "suspicious" AKA me walking around, taking photos at a few different spots. They searched me and ran my name for warrants.I had the Canon nifty 50 on my camera too. I don't even know what would've happened if it was a telephoto.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:00:15 No.2707046 Report

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>>2707005
I was taking some long exposure photos on a bridge over the highway once. I'm honestly surprised nobody called the cops because I was standing with my camera right on the ledge at night, wearing a heavy, kinda rape-y looking coat because it was cold as fuck. It had to look really shady to anyone passing by.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:10:36 No.2707050 Report

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Now I know the average age of a 4chan user has not slid under being able to remember that television crew that got mistaken for an RPG team in the middle east right?

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:22:12 No.2707054 Report

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>>2707050
Lol wut

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:24:02 No.2707056 Report

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>>2707054
Oh come on its classic!
On phone but Google 2007 Baghdad Airstrike or something like that

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:27:00 No.2707058 Report

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>>2707046
The fuck is a rapey coat?

God you kids suck at adjectives.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:38:15 No.2707067 Report

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>>2707058
I call it a rapey coat because I always feel like a sex offender when i wear it. It's huge and looks like it should be worn by a hobo ready to flash his dick at you.
The only reason why i keep it is because it's warm.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:40:51 No.2707069 Report

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>>2707067
Flashing and rape are very, very different things.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 21:58:02 No.2707081 Report

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>>2707058

>Being this bad at punctuation.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 22:06:11 No.2707092 Report

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>>2707069
are you a coat expert or a rape expert?

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NatureGUy !!tg3hbUo06u8 Fri 20 Nov 2015 22:10:43 No.2707096 Report

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I've had that problem twice. Once while trespassing in Colorado (I think rubber might have been along that time or it was a separate run, they kind of blur together) some guy thought I was a deer poacher. Chatted him up, he was a chill guy from up in Minnesota. Another time hiking to Bumpass Hell in Lassen NP I see a quarter mile up the trail a mom tuck her twelve year old behind her and stand stock still. When I get up to she stares at me ghost white and then starts saying "oh it's a tripod". I be all like "lolwat lady" and be like "I thought it was rifle. I must have laughed at her for half a mile.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Nov 2015 23:29:57 No.2707131 Report

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Friend and I were out one night getting random b-roll, on a pedestrian bridge catching the cars passing under.

Apparently someone saw something like pic and called the police reporting a guy was shooting paintballs at cars.

The responding officer quickly figured out what happened, I don't remember what exactly he said, but it was probably just some procedural comment while thinking "stupid lady" in the back of his head.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 12:48:51 No.2707362 Report

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>>2707056
collateral murder

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 13:06:56 No.2707368 Report

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>>2707050
>The only way to know/remember something is to have been around when it happened

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 13:08:07 No.2707370 Report

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>>2707096
>some guy thought I was a deer poacher. Chatted him up, he was a chill guy from up in Minnesota
Did you fuck?

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 13:55:27 No.2707398 Report

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>>2707046
I was taking IR photos on a highway overpass last summer. Some woman drove past, then turned around at the other side of the overpass, parked at a bus stop and sat there. After I was about done she drove past behind my back very slowly. Probably tried to call the cops and got told to not waste their time on bullshit. Pic related, it was my setup.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:09:52 No.2707402 Report

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Interesting. I just saw these a few days ago

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:19:23 No.2707411 Report

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:20:26 No.2707412 Report

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:21:28 No.2707414 Report

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>The apparently one-off device and its accessories are said to still be in excellent condition and working perfectly, both of which attributes may have helped the camera gun to receive an estimate of at least $335,435 before it was auctioned in 2015.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:22:31 No.2707415 Report

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>Made in a Russian factory from the 1950s, Zenit-brand cameras were subsequently shipped to 74 countries around the globe. Unusually, however, the Zenit range included an observation camera known as the Photosniper, which mimicked the characteristics of a rifle and was produced during the Cold War period.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:23:35 No.2707416 Report

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>The camera’s design furthermore made it an ideal surveillance tool, enabling its operator to capture crisp images of moving objects with a steady hand. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Zenit Photosniper was utilized by the KGB in addition to other intelligence agencies across communist Europe.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:24:38 No.2707417 Report

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>The impressive, heavy-duty Paillard Bolex H9 Mi Gun camera managed to survive in a warzone, and it did so just by shooting 8 mm film rather than 9 mm rounds. The bespoke item was apparently created for a correspondent covering the Vietnam War; and in terms of makeup, it melds a standard H9 movie camera from Swiss firm Paillard Bolex with a robust gun stock and trigger housing.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:25:36 No.2707418 Report

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>>2706873
one (at least) of us is the killer, so get used to it

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:25:41 No.2707419 Report

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>Japanese Type 89 Machine Gun Camera
>During the early 20th century, various gun cameras were developed to help train military aerial gunnery students. Replicating the real thing in practically everything other than bullets, the devices’ photographs were used to assess trainees’ trigger skills.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:26:44 No.2707420 Report

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>One such “weapon” was the Japanese Type 89 Machine Gun Camera, known as the Rokuoh-Sha. Introduced in 1936 by the company that later became Konica, the Type 89 used 35 mm cine film and was powered by a hand-turned spring motor capable of up to ten frames a second.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:27:49 No.2707421 Report

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>Image Fulgurator
>Here’s a gun camera with a difference, although perhaps the Image Fulgurator nods to its Cold War-era counterparts thanks to its sneaky purpose. Created by Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck, the unusual optical mod was designed to project an image – invisible to the naked eye – onto any object being photographed by someone else.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:28:52 No.2707422 Report

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>Doryu 2-16
>Another retro Japanese design, this next device could be a convincing 9 mm automatic pistol if it weren’t for its barrel, which somewhat gives the game away. Manufactured by the Doryu Camera Company between 1954 and 1956, the 16 mm still-image camera element accounts for almost half of the contraption’s overall weight, and unlike the real thing it of course only shoots film.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:29:56 No.2707424 Report

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>The device is understood to have been renamed the Nihon 16-miri Shashin Kōgyō at some point during its history, and like other vintage camera guns featured here, it has become rather valuable in recent times. For example, one model fetched nearly $25,000 in 2001 in spite of its outdated technology.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 14:35:35 No.2707426 Report

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>>2707414
>>2707415
>>2707416
>>2707417
>>2707419
>>2707420
>>2707421
>>2707422
>>2707424
It's probably not this guy

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!!Me2iIexFVez Sat 21 Nov 2015 15:39:52 No.2707460 Report

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>2015
>firearms aren't all built with an integral camera.

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!!Me2iIexFVez Sat 21 Nov 2015 15:46:45 No.2707469 Report

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Anonymous Sat 21 Nov 2015 18:43:43 No.2707552 Report

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>>2707046
I have taken to wearing reflective bits of clothing when doing animal photography near urban areas. It seems to help people relax if you are dressed in a way that makes it obvious you aren't trying to be sneaky.

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NatureGUy !!tg3hbUo06u8 Sun 22 Nov 2015 03:11:54 No.2707793 Report

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>>2707370
rubber cock block, no shit on my dick

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Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2015 04:43:05 No.2707836 Report

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>>2707412
this will get you shot in amerikkka.
probably france too.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2015 12:04:45 No.2707960 Report

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>>2707793
At least you were safe.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2015 12:39:00 No.2707971 Report

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>>2706918

I... I want dat camera!

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Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2015 14:02:41 No.2707990 Report

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>>2707836
Agreed, especially if you're a minority.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Nov 2015 15:33:26 No.2708003 Report

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>>2707411
this reminds me of this one German artist who made a device that detected camera flashes and projected images onto a target. The guy would stand in some photographer crowd with the device and the other photographers would later find e.g. Crusader crosses on the shields policemen arresting some Arabian guy.

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