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Kuwait Not Banning DSLR Cameras After All
Voulnet writes "The Kuwait Times, the newspaper that started the false rumor of Kuwait banning DSLR cameras, has posted an update saying that after investigation, it turned out they didn't verify their information. They have now issued a retraction. Quoting: 'The newspaper regrets failing to verify the information. The article wrongly stated that a ban on DSLR cameras was implemented by the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance. This information is false. In a follow up investigation, it was proved that no such ban has been issued. We regret this error and deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused.'"
Yes, a through-the-lens optical preview of the image as it exists momentarily before exposure is an entirely outdated concept now that we can capture that image on a digital sensor then electronically re-display it some number of seconds later.
There's a reason that the market for TLRs disappeared and the only viable rangefinder (Leica system) is based on a design from 1953. Viewfinder cameras are great if you can automatically know the distance to your subject or understand hyperfocal focusing, otherwise they're useless. Point and shoots are basically viewfinders with a non-reviewable AF rangefinder.
Strangely enough, the only currently viable non-SLR, non-RF design being produced is the view camera yes, the ones with the bags over the head, which predates all other forms of camera by at least 50 years.
I hope you enjoy your well-earned lulz, good sir troll. Next time pick something less obvious.
so how exactly would you take photos aligned properly to the viewfinder without running the sensor hot all the time, which lowers SNR?
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Anger-laden post aside, he's right. Unless it's a huge fuck-up (and Todd doesn't pick up his phone), you'll never see a retraction on the front page or anywhere easily noticeable.
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Rumors can be false or true. The term "rumors" itself does not specify (or even imply) one or the other, so "false rumors" is not redundant.
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Really?. Kuwait doesn't seem do too well on the enforcement end of things.
Kuwait does not publish its laws, has no freedom of information - legally or culturally - and sees no problem at all with lying about what the law is. Like all police states, Kuwait would rather that everyone be guilty of something. Enforcement is completely arbitrary - visiting businessmen (better believe I mean 'men') taking snaps are unlikely to be hassled, unless you do something rash like film the slave labour conditions in their foreign-staffed construction sites.
You might just type a bit before you rant on... Yes, I am sure that Kuwait does all manner of nasty, underhanded things (rather like some other countries we mention from time to time) but your comments are uselessly hyperbolic.
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Where the hell do you bring this bullcrap from? Photography is one of the most spread hobbies in Kuwait, and many competitions and exhibitions are routinely held around Kuwait.
Don't you feel really sick inside when you deliberately twist all sorts of information just to show your hate to people who didn't do anything to you? What a low life.
Also, Kuwait publishes its laws, and every additions or modifications to it. In fact it has an official newspaper dedicated to doing just that. Kuwait a police state? LOL, you have absolutely no knowledge about things you write. If anything, Kuwait is on the opposite polar side of being a police state. Unless, you know, a country with a three letter acronym >.>
This is true. You can beat your wife no matter what color she is; you can stone someone to death (or hurl them of a cliff) regardless of color; and of course, you can believe in the great sky fairy no matter what color you are. Definitely no racism in Islam, nor Sharia law, nuh-uh. Islam is completely color-blind, just like it is blind to the equality of women, blind to why one should not intentionally target innocents in service of one's political views, blind to why silence and support is the wrong answer when extremist Islamotards get loose with hijacked aircraft, exploding shoes, and so forth. Well, I gotta go now, I have a cartoon to draw.
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Fact checking was always done better than this. This was "the government says" and the government never says. In the US, we get "Bob on the street says the government says" which is a fact, even if Bob is wrong. America has perfected the art of being 100% wrong without accountability. Anything that drives up paper sales while not opening them up to lawsuits is greatly encouraged, regardless of the truth. Facts and the truth are unrelated in the US.
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