Disney Bans Selfie Sticks in its Theme Parks

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Although I don't use one, I'm wondering why they make a distinction between cameras, camra phones, and selfie sticks. It is yet another senseless rule. People can do the same with smartphones and get the same results.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/disney-bans-selfie-sticks-in-its-theme-parks-062615.html

 

[Don Haines]

Although I don't use one, I'm wondering why they make a distinction between cameras, camra phones, and selfie sticks. It is yet another senseless rule. People can do the same with smartphones and get the same results.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/disney-bans-selfie-sticks-in-its-theme-parks-062615.html

The old days where you would ask a complete stranger to take your picture with your camera, and then take a picture of them with their camera, are long gone..... pity! you met a lot of neat people.....

 

[dolina]

A lot of people can also run away with your camera, too.

My guess is the selfie stick could be used as a weapon or accident-causing obstruction.

 

[Loswr]

The issue isn't the selfie, it's the stick.

 

[tpatana]

The issue isn't the selfie, it's the stick.

Yup, I can imagine what might happen when people are using selfie stick during the rides: the person getting hit by the flying stick gets suddenly one thousand billion dollars richer.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

The issue isn't the selfie, it's the stick.

Yup, I can imagine what might happen when people are using selfie stick during the rides: the person getting hit by the flying stick gets suddenly one thousand billion dollars richer.

In my experience, most people would rather have their eye back, or their arm or leg, rather than the $$. All these things have a $$ value, its rare for more than that value to be paid out. The injured party almost always loses more than the $$$ can compensate.

 

[Khufu]

Illustrated by arms-length selfie, complete with reflections of arms and camera

I guess they struggled to find a selfie-stick shot image anywhere on the internet hosted by a site with journalism/distribution rights as an integral part of their T&Cs...

 

[AcutancePhotography]

The old days where you would ask a complete stranger to take your picture with your camera, and then take a picture of them with their camera, are long gone..... pity! you met a lot of neat people.....

Well when you have people like my GF who puts every single piece of personal and sensitive information on her cell phone (facepalm!), I don't wonder why people are reluctant to hand over their cell phones these days.

 

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Interestingly, those people absolutely don't mind wath FB, Googirl et al. do with all that personal and sensitive information. I mean, they only collect info in order to improve your user experience don't they?

At least, they recognize the value of all of your photographs

The old days where you would ask a complete stranger to take your picture with your camera, and then take a picture of them with their camera, are long gone..... pity! you met a lot of neat people.....

Well when you have people like my GF who puts every single piece of personal and sensitive information on her cell phone (facepalm!), I don't wonder why people are reluctant to hand over their cell phones these days.

 

[Pookie]

Although I don't use one, I'm wondering why they make a distinction between cameras, camra phones, and selfie sticks. It is yet another senseless rule. People can do the same with smartphones and get the same results.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/disney-bans-selfie-sticks-in-its-theme-parks-062615.html

Says the guy born in 1939 not 1999... Next up, dang kids these days or another similarly dating statement ...

Try wading through a storm or sticks and cell cameras when you walking with you 3 year old and family in tow. It ain't fun.

 

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Although I don't use one, I'm wondering why they make a distinction between cameras, camra phones, and selfie sticks. It is yet another senseless rule. People can do the same with smartphones and get the same results.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/disney-bans-selfie-sticks-in-its-theme-parks-062615.html

Says the guy born in 1939 not 1999... Next up, dang kids these days or another similarly dating statement ...

Try wading through a storm or sticks and cell cameras when you walking with you 3 year old and family in tow. It ain't fun.

I'm confused here, is the guy born in 1999 the daddy of the 3 years old?

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Although I don't use one, I'm wondering why they make a distinction between cameras, camra phones, and selfie sticks. It is yet another senseless rule. People can do the same with smartphones and get the same results.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/disney-bans-selfie-sticks-in-its-theme-parks-062615.html

Says the guy born in 1939 not 1999... Next up, dang kids these days or another similarly dating statement ...

Try wading through a storm or sticks and cell cameras when you walking with you 3 year old and family in tow. It ain't fun.

I'm confused here, is the guy born in 1999 the daddy of the 3 years old?

I think he is flattering me. A three year old at my age?

I've been to Disneyland in Southern California, and never waded thru sticks. Does Disney World have you wade thru sticks?

Its never rained when I've been there, but it was not the rainy season. I did visit Disneyland many times over the years, the first time in 1957 when I was a kid and the subject of my Dads photography with his Brownie Hawkeye! I've took various cameras and young children over the years, my last trip used a digital camera in about 1998. I found it enjoyable to take my kids and let them enjoy the attractions. In spite of the big crowds, photography was not a issue for me, sure, someone was always walking in front of the camera just when I was ready to snap a photo. I never had a lens that could capture my kids as they were on a ride or water chute, just not enough focal length.

BTW, I know nothing about selfie sticks, I just pointed out the restriction, and that selfies will continue to be taken using other cameras, so if distracted people are causing a issue by behaving in a unsafe manor, it won't change.

Here is my son in 1998 at Disneyland taken with my first digital camera, a 2.1 mp Fujifilm MX700. They cost about $500 then. The technology was changing rapidly, so I updated cameras every 3 years to another that was vastly superior.

Note that Disneyland sold lots of toys and souvenirs that could be used to poke someone, lost of toy guns, swords, etc. Even light sabers

 

[TeT]

it makes sense... ppl taking selfies are often enough oblivious of their surroundings (enough that it is noticeable in the right environment) the addition of a stick in their hands is dangerous.

 

[Loswr]

it makes sense... ppl taking selfies are often enough oblivious of their surroundings (enough that it is noticeable in the right environment) the addition of a stick in their hands is dangerous.

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/06/19/utah-valley-university-installs-texting-lane/

Maybe they need a selfie lane...

 

[Ozarker]

While I'm not nearly as old as Mt. Spokane Photography ;D... I can remember the days when taking a photo of oneself was considered weird. One would be considered conceited or self-absorbed.

 

[tpatana]

While I'm not nearly as old as Mt. Spokane Photography ;D... I can remember the days when taking a photo of oneself was considered weird. One would be considered conceited or self-absorbed.

Well, most of us carry a device in our pocket that's smaller than a cigarette box, battery powered and would have been considered super computer some 30 years ago, capable of accessing all the information in the world. And all we do with those is watch cat videos or post pictures of food we are about to eat.

30 years ago if you told people that, you would have received nice soft room and a shirt with long sleeves.

Times surely change.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

While I'm not nearly as old as Mt. Spokane Photography ;D... I can remember the days when taking a photo of oneself was considered weird. One would be considered conceited or self-absorbed.

Well, most of us carry a device in our pocket that's smaller than a cigarette box, battery powered and would have been considered super computer some 30 years ago, capable of accessing all the information in the world. And all we do with those is watch cat videos or post pictures of food we are about to eat.

30 years ago if you told people that, you would have received nice soft room and a shirt with long sleeves.

Times surely change.

Around 1966 or 1967, a 4 function calculator cost about $400 and was considered amazing. The next year, TI and HP came out with scientific calculators and ignited a war about which was better, RPN or Algebraic entry of formulas. I'll bet there is still some who will argue today. I bought a TI SR 50, but also have had several HP RPN calculators. Like DSLR's, I can use either one, its getting the job done that counts.

I hated those huge mechanical calculators that we used in school to get approximations of Bessel Functions by iteration. YUK! I found a slide rule just like the one I used back then at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago, and then a day later, found a old Post bamboo slide rule in mint condition. I have some of the metal ones around as well as a circular slide rule or two.

I also have a circular slide rule for photographers used to calculate DOF and DR I was just kidding about the DR, we called it exposure latitude back them..

 

[distant.star]

Well, most of us carry a device in our pocket that's smaller than a cigarette box, battery powered and would have been considered super computer some 30 years ago, capable of accessing all the information in the world.

The character, Virgil, in the 1974 movie "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" said it best...

"That's a falsehood."

 

[Don Haines]

Well, most of us carry a device in our pocket that's smaller than a cigarette box, battery powered and would have been considered super computer some 30 years ago, capable of accessing all the information in the world.

The character, Virgil, in the 1974 movie "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" said it best...

"That's a falsehood."

I used to use the UNB mainframe.... at one time it was the third most powerful computer in Canada.... It processed 32 bit instructions at one million instructions per second and had 200 Megabytes of online disk and tape storage.... that's not enough computing power to play an mpeg song....

The most powerful computer in Canada was a Cray 1 supercomputer.... 64 bit processor and capable of executing 80 MILLION instructions per second.... and it had 8 Megabytes of memory! It only weighed in at 11,000 pounds and sucked back 120 amps 3-phase at 600 volts/phase..... now THAT was a computer!

My ipad has a 3 core 64 bit processor that runs at 1.5Ghz, 6 Megabytes of on-chip cache.... and an 8 core GPU thrown in as well.... and 128Gbytes of storage.... over 100 times the computing power of that Cray 1 super-computer.... 16,000 times as much memory.... and it's a phone.... and it's a camera.... and it runs all day on battery..... and yes, you have access to all the info in the world.....

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Well, most of us carry a device in our pocket that's smaller than a cigarette box, battery powered and would have been considered super computer some 30 years ago, capable of accessing all the information in the world.

The character, Virgil, in the 1974 movie "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" said it best...

"That's a falsehood."

I used to use the UNB mainframe.... at one time it was the third most powerful computer in Canada.... It processed 32 bit instructions at one million instructions per second and had 200 Megabytes of online disk and tape storage.... that's not enough computing power to play an mpeg song....

The most powerful computer in Canada was a Cray 1 supercomputer.... 64 bit processor and capable of executing 80 MILLION instructions per second.... and it had 8 Megabytes of memory! It only weighed in at 11,000 pounds and sucked back 120 amps 3-phase at 600 volts/phase..... now THAT was a computer!

My ipad has a 3 core 64 bit processor that runs at 1.5Ghz, 6 Megabytes of on-chip cache.... and an 8 core GPU thrown in as well.... and 128Gbytes of storage.... over 100 times the computing power of that Cray 1 super-computer.... 16,000 times as much memory.... and it's a phone.... and it's a camera.... and it runs all day on battery..... and yes, you have access to all the info in the world.....

And yet, the cray might still run circles around it doing the job it was intended for. Iiphone and the like is fast because its ultra specialized, the cray could do math at crazy speeds. I remember when we got ours for aerodynamic computations and simulations.

I tool programming lessons on a pdp 8, throwing switches to set the program into the memory, and then learning to do a bootstrap loader to load the program via punched tape from a teletype machine. My first computer was a Atari 400 that I bought for my son, but used it myself too. When the IBM PC's came out, I bought a clone and learned that Dos was basically a Unix clone. Then next PC I built myself, and did that for many more years. At one early point, our not so computer savy boss bought a hundred or so HP150 pc's, intending to run them from a HP mini computer that he also bought. It was a disaster, but he did not have money left to buy software for the individual machines. Eventually, we talked him into buying Macs and PC's. We managed to get a Lisa which was a beautiful machine and precursor to the Macintosh.