William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joaquim Carvalho" Subject: Re:
morality part 2 (Was: Porto street shots)
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:42, frank theriault wrote:
I wasn't defending the law, Tom, I was just saying that it would be
easily enforceable is all.
No it wouldn't, people would just start using 85mm (the longest legal
lens) lenses on top of a few 1.7x (the maximum allowed) tele-converters
The 2 out of 1000 people that actually have one, anyway.
Everyone else has zoom lenses.
And that is why the law would be completely unenforceable. How could
they possibly regulate zoom lenses? Maybe they could license them.
That's how government usually works. Levy a tax on all lenses longer
than 100mm focal length. Then the govt. could set up a bureaucracy with
plenty of jobs for political hacks and campaign donors. You would have
to prove that you paid your license fee or the cops would confiscate
your lens and you'd have to pay a fine to get it back. Carrying a camera
bag would naturally be probable cause to search you.
Tom (The Cynic) Reese
