so your concern is that you will be at a concert filming with a tripod and have a problem?
or that you will be a single person with a tripod filming.. in which case you will have no problem
just curious
No, my concern is being harassed by the authorities while walking the streets and parks of NYC. Leaving my camera mounted on a tripod for over 10 minutes is nothing unusual, especially when the light is changing. As I mentioned in my previous post, my worry is that it will lead to selective, discriminatory enforcement.
Concerts are a different story--if the venue says "no," tough.
The reason I'm concerned about this stuff is that it follows a trend which I feel is going in a very un-American direction.
I lived in Philly for quite a while but recently moved to Jersey City (it's across the Hudson River from downtown NYC). I noticed immediately that many people in this part of the nation are highly suspicious of anything out of the ordinary which is really messing wither their common sense.
The other day I was out taking photographs and decided to walk to the adjacent town, Hoboken (purgatory for yuppies). The Holland Tunnel separates our two towns and while it's not well advertised, photographing the tunnel entrance is forbidden. (Even though anybody can DRIVE A VEHICLE through it.) Well, some guy saw me with a camera and before I knew it, two squad cars pulled up behind me as I stood on the sidewalk. "Sir, we want to see what you were taking pictures of!" My reaction probably wasn't well advised, "Are you [bleep] kidding me?!" but the cops were fairly cool about it. However, if I had a bunch of Holland Tunnel pics on my camera there's no doubt in my mind I would have been arrested.
A little at a time... that's how it happens.
-Frank