Re: panoramic in Germany

[Marco Pauck <pauck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

simon nathan wrote:
> 
> first you must learn to spell koln, the german way, or cologne the english way. years ago i took 360 degree pan shots with hulcherama on platform 6/7 and the white hulcherama was making a slow turn. "no pictures" i was advised by the an officer from the police dept. i told him that the hulcherama was a coffee grinder and he should just sniff it. i'd spilled coffee on it the day before so this logical explanation worked for me. simon nathan
> 
> Edward Meyers wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone tell me about any problems making a 360 Panoramic
> > in the train station in Koeln, Germany?

Being german, I feel qualified to answer this  ;-)

First of all, Edward is right: The german name of "Cologne" is
"Köln". Note the umlaut!. If you can't write an umlaut, then
it's necessary to add an 'e' to the base character, e.g. 'ä'
becomes 'ae' and 'ö' becomes 'oe'. So "Koeln" is correct.

But now to the actual question: I've never tried to take
pictures in a german train station (panoramic or not) but
I would not expect the problems I've experienced in other
countries.

For example, the last time I was in London, I arrived at the
new tube station Southwark while on my way to Silverprint.
The Southwark station is really interesting from an
architectural point of view and I spontaneously decided to
take some pictures. However, only a few moments after I
pulled my Horizon out of the bag, a message was broadcasted
through the public address system: "It is forbidden to take
pictures in this station!" (or something similar). I tried
to ignore this, but a few moments later a security officer
arrived. Luckily, I was using neither a tripod nor a flash
but just a high-speed film (T-MAX 3600), so it was easy to
put the Horizon back in its bag and went away inconspicuously
in order to continue elsewhere ... ;-)

Well, I wasn't shot by the security staff, not even arrested ;-)
but IMHO the situation was really silly.

No, I would not expect this to happen in a german train station.
Nevertheless, it will do no harm to get a permission before you
try ...

	Marco
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