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Has Cricket South Africa caught a ****ing wake up yet, or are they still being c*nts when it comes to photos. I'm going tomorrow, and I want to know if the thick-as-a-box-of-rocks security guards are going to let me in with a SLR?

I haven't been to sporting event for years, and if their policy is to treat their paying customers like criminals and herd them around like cattle, I'll rather watch it on TV. Hope it's a pleasant day out, but I have serious doubts. Was anyone there today? How was it?

As much as I'd like to take the long lens (and the wide lens), I'm just going to take the 50mm, but are they going to be difficult about that?
 
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Didn't see anything in that thread about cameras or whether paying customers are being treated well. I expect the game to be good, but how is the rest of the experience?
 
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Drunkard #1 said:
Didn't see anything in that thread about cameras or whether paying customers are being treated well. I expect the game to be good, but how is the rest of the experience?
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Why not PM zulgin and ask him as he was there today.
 
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bwana said:
Is there an answer to his qn somewhere in there?

Personally I doubt you'll have much of a problem bringing in a 50mm
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Centurion are very strict w.r.t. cameras and anything bigger than a simple point and shoot is not permitted. And they are pretty anal and heavy-handed about it. I was there towards the end of last season and quite a few guys were turned away at the turnstiles and had to go lock their cameras in their vehicles.
 
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Thought so, and then they've got the nerve to bitch and moan about poor attendance.

Here's a thought CSA - treat your paying customers well and they'll support you, treat them like criminals and they'll avoid your product as far as humanly possible.
 
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It shouldn't. When I phoned the Wanderers many years ago, they said that all that crap is decided by Cricket SA. When I called CSA, they gave some bull**** excuse about intellectual property and couldn't tell me why DSLRs that sell thousands of units every year are classed as "professional cameras".

I wonder if the Consumer Protection Act will help us out when it's active. This sort of thing amounts to blatant abuse of the consumer by a monopoly. C*nts.
 
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When has anything any monopoly has ever done made any sense at all?

davemc, you don't support them, and I hardly ever support them, but they don't know that. They see empty stadiums, and blame the weather and the economy and people losing interest in cricket and the soccer and one eyed alien goats that lived in the mountains of Saturn's third moon 753 years ago, but never realise that it's their policy of treating customers like dirt that keeps us watching from our couches.

Like I said, I'll see how tomorrow goes, then decide whether I ever go to South African match again.
 
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Aye, I don't even bother to support them from my couch.
I walked into the Centurion stadium with my camera (with lens mounted) around my neck in 2003, and all was fine for 3 international games in a row.
I loved sitting there being able to zoom in and watch the batsman's expression.
The photo's that I did take were mediocre to average, but they were fun.
The 4th game I went to they stopped me and said that only the press was allowed high-tech camera's.
I should have gone home when they said that to me, but I locked the camera in the boot of my car, after the game I was forced to pay for a new boot lock and I miss that camera and lens.

In the end, I blame them, and rightfully so, no pre-communication regarding the change in policy, just a slap to the face.
Cricket SA will never win me back.
 
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