Have you pulled any good pranks with photo equipment? Did things turn out like you'd planned? Lets hear about it. (But beware of PB PM, he eats pranksters, LOL)
Good pranks with Photo Equipment
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I once put a stick of dynamite in my friend's camera so when he pressed the shutter button a piano fell on him.
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Niko - I sure hope that you got photos of that one !!
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That's him after he crawled out from under it.
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One april fools day I took a lot of pictures of government installations with a fake moustache, huge dark glasses, and a trenchcoat. But that was funnier before the FBI showed up and started asking questions, not-a-terrorist T-shirt notwithstanding.
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If we ever ban you jonny I want you to re-register under the name Jonny Dangerously :^)
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Wait, is this all the warning I get?
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At the camera store I once worked at we would toss the dummy cameras at each other with little warning. We would say things like "hey, check out this new waterproof shockproof camera." You would always catch the new guys.
Or you could do it with old broken film point and shoot camera's or disposable camera's.
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I guess you could pull out SD cards and leave an equivalently sized micro SD card inside the massive SD slot. :D
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This isn't really the story of a prank in the classic sense, but you might find it interesting:
In the late 80s, I had a good friend (female, who I will call Mary) who was married to a good friend of mine. There was also a bloke I shared a rented house with, who I will call Max. Everybody who knew Max and mary liked Mary, but found it hard to like Max. He was just that sort of bloke. Myself and a number of other people had a suspicion that Max was sneaking around with Mary, in a way that her husband (or any other husband) would not approve of. One night, I was working (taking photos) in a city near to where Max, Mary and I lived. I was walking up a street between venues that I was shooting at and I walked past a rerstaurant with a large glass window which butted up right against the street. Sitting inside the restaurant, at a table-for-two right up against where I was walking past, were Max and Mary, holding hands while they sat across from each other. I had my camera in my hand (a Nikon F3, for those who are curious, with a Metz 60 flash unit attached to it). I couldn't help myself. I turned on the flash. I tapped on the glass and both of them looked at me with wide eyes. I smiled and waved, in a dumb kind of way. I then held my camera up to my eye, placed my finger on the shutter release and pressed the flash release button, but not the shutter release. As far as they were concerned, I had taken a photograph of them. I had not done that though. I had just 'flashed' the flash, giving the impression that I had actually taken a shot. Looking back, I don't think I wanted the responsibility of having a photograph of them toegether - one which had the potential to end a marriage. It was all a bit too much for me. But I didn't think it was going to hurt either of them if they thought I had actually taken a shot. After I had flashed the flash, I smiled dumbly again and kept walking.
None of us ever mentioned what had happened. Life rolled on as it had. However, about two weeks later, Max moved out of the house and went back to the town he had moved from about 12 months earlier, which was about 600 km west of where we were living, on the east coast of Australia. I haven't heard from him since. I lost contact with Mary about five years later, but the 'photo' was never mentioned and her relationship with her husband seemingly rolled on in an ordinary kind of way.
This, my friends, demonstrates how the camera can be used for good, not for evil !!!
It also shows that flashing your friends isn't always a bad thing.
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What a great story, Floyd! You turned a potentially harmful photo opportunity and turned it into what might have been a wake-up call that saved a marriage. I love it.
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A prank I pulled that kinda backfired was back in the 70s I worked at a camera store. One day, a lady brought in a few rolls of film to have developed, and as she was getting them out of her purse, she dropped one roll on the floor. Without skipping a beat, I said, "Oh NO, they're gonna be knocked out of focus!!" The lady almost had a heart attack - they were the only photos taken at her daughter's wedding !! I had to do some quick talking to calm her down. Never tried that again.
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A few years ago at PhotoPlus East, I had a friend of mine toss me an H2 body and P45+ back all because I asked him if I could check it out. I wish I could say this is a joke because everytime I think about it, my heart stops remembering about $40,000 flying through the air.
I had my fun though when I told him the story of when I was in highschool and was never able to make the baseball team because I kept dropping the ball. He never tossed me another camera again.
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Brilliant thread idea warprints!
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Thanks. I'm sure there are more good stories out there - maybe people are too embarassed to share??
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Another good prank is to take out the memory card of your fellow photographers and then watch them take "photos" all day without realizing it! Of course you have to make sure the camera is set to "unlocked" when there is no card present.
I did that once to an unsuspecting coworker :^)
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NikoDoby said:
Another good prank is to take out the memory card of your fellow photographers and then watch them take "photos" all day without realizing it! Of course you have to make sure the camera is set to "unlocked" when there is no card present.I did that once to an unsuspecting coworker :^)
That's really mean. :D
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Niko - surprised you lived to tell about it. Or is that why you're in hiding, so this co-worker will never find you??
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I could believe it. That is why I always check to see that my card is there. I find a good harmless prank for the unsuspecting manual shooter is to set the quality to jpeg and set the mode from manual to aperture or SS priority. Always gets them...
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Man, y'all are playing with fire, messing with other people's camera's. Your friends (or are they competitors you're doing this to?) are way to good natured for reality to let you do these things and live.
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