Question DSLR Cameras

[palexander]

Anyone (Dave Scriven?) know what the ruling is at Roots Hall regarding taking a DSLR camera into the ground to take pics?

Any pics are not for commercial use etc, just for me. Just got into photography and wanted to see how I did with sports shots!

Ta!

 

[MK Shrimper]

Anyone (Dave Scriven?) know what the ruling is at Roots Hall regarding taking a DSLR camera into the ground to take pics?

Any pics are not for commercial use etc, just for me. Just got into photography and wanted to see how I did with sports shots!

Ta!

? How could they stop you?

 

[Ozzer]

Anyone (Dave Scriven?) know what the ruling is at Roots Hall regarding taking a DSLR camera into the ground to take pics?

Any pics are not for commercial use etc, just for me. Just got into photography and wanted to see how I did with sports shots!

Ta!

I think you would have to get permission from the club but if I remember correctly officially you can't take pictures of a live performance i.e. match.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Anyone (Dave Scriven?) know what the ruling is at Roots Hall regarding taking a DSLR camera into the ground to take pics?

Any pics are not for commercial use etc, just for me. Just got into photography and wanted to see how I did with sports shots!

Ta!

According to Football League rules, if you even consider bringing a camera within 100 yards of a ground, Brian Mawhinney will come round your house and kill your goldfish.

 

[Ricey]

I think you would have to get permission from the club but if I remember correctly officially you can't take pictures of a live performance i.e. match.

Well thats rubbish because they can't stop people using a mobile phone! Plus I have seen loads of people throughout my southend united supporting days with digital cameras in the ground. Even some of them with SLR's and I might even take mine to a game or two. Need a bigger lense though ;)

 

[A Century United]

According to Football League rules, if you even consider bringing a camera within 100 yards of a ground, Brian Mawhinney will come round your house and hide your goldfish.

That would explain that then.... SBH must have been taking unauthorised pictures!

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

I think it says in the ground regulations (it certainly used to a few years ago) that you are not allowed to bring a camera into the stadium. But, as has been said above:

a) how can they stop you?
b) this would mean banning just about every mobile phone from the ground
c) loads of people take cameras and take photos anyway

 

[South Bucks Shrimper]

Last season there was a bloke sitting behind me using a video camera. The stewards told him to stop or he would be ejected from the ground.

 

[McScriven]

Bringing a camera into Roots Hall and using it is against the ground regulations. Taking pictures of the action during games is against Football League regulations and you face the risk of being ejected and having any images removed.

Incidently all photos taken within football grounds aren't allowed to be used for commercial use, only editorial, unless you have an a very specific agreement with the League.

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

Bringing a camera into Roots Hall and using it is against the ground regulations. Taking pictures of the action during games is against Football League regulations and you face the risk of being ejected and having any images removed.

If as I understand it just bringing a camera into the stadium is against the ground regulations, then technically are we not allowed to bring our mobiles into grounds if they can be used as cameras? I know this rule came into being many years before anyone had even dreamed of the idea of a camera phone, but if you were to operate the letter of the law would this not be the case?

And what about something like the Championship-winning match in 2006 - lots of people would have brought their cameras to the game for the celebrations at the end - is that also technically not allowed?

 

[McNasty]

It's so the Football League and the clubs have a monopoly on photos, I am sure photographers for newspapers must pay fortunes for the privilege of taking pictures.
ShrimperZone cannot post any pictures taken inside football grounds or we get nasty posts threatening legal action, it doesn't matter that without the fans football clubs would be extremely financially embarrassed -- we are just the daft *******s that pay the wages.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

If as I understand it just bringing a camera into the stadium is against the ground regulations, then technically are we not allowed to bring our mobiles into grounds if they can be used as cameras? I know this rule came into being many years before anyone had even dreamed of the idea of a camera phone, but if you were to operate the letter of the law would this not be the case?

And what about something like the Championship-winning match in 2006 - lots of people would have brought their cameras to the game for the celebrations at the end - is that also technically not allowed?

Southend United Customer Charter Appendix 2 Ticket Conditions points 3 & 4:

3. No person may bring into the ground or use within the ground any equipment
which is capable of recording or transmitting (by digital or other means) any
audio, visual or audio-visual material or any information or data in relation to any
match, or the ground, eg, laptop computers, mobile telephones.
4. Mobile telephones are permitted within the ground, provided that they are used
for personal and private use only, but must be switched off during the match.

So point 3 states that mobile phones may not be brought into the ground, but point 4 states they can be brought into the ground and used for personal use before, at half time and at the end of the match (but is that just to make calls or to take photo's as well?).

 

[McNasty]

Don't take photos or they will surgically remove your phone from your personage.

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

Mobile telephones are permitted within the ground, provided that they are used for personal and private use only, but must be switched off during the match.

That would be so annoying if someone's mobile phone went off in the middle of a football match, the players must get so annoyed when that happens, it's so distracting!

Nice to know it's so clear that we are not allowed to take mobile phones into the ground, but we are permitted to take mobile phones into the ground.

:dim:

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

ShrimperZone cannot post any pictures taken inside football grounds or we get nasty posts threatening legal action.

What like these pictures??

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

Southend United Customer Charter Appendix 2 Ticket Conditions points 3 & 4:

3. No person may bring into the ground or use within the ground any equipment
which is capable of recording or transmitting (by digital or other means) any
audio, visual or audio-visual material or any information or data in relation to any
match, or the ground, eg, laptop computers, mobile telephones.
4. Mobile telephones are permitted within the ground, provided that they are used
for personal and private use only, but must be switched off during the match.

So point 3 states that mobile phones may not be brought into the ground, but point 4 states they can be brought into the ground and used for personal use before, at half time and at the end of the match (but is that just to make calls or to take photo's as well?).

Doesn't our new half-time entertainment include a phone call to a fan, who the stadium announcer apparently hopes is in attendance? Let me make sure that I understand this - we should turn our phones off during the match, but make sure that we have them on for a period of 15 minutes halfway through. Have the club really thought this through?

;)

 

[McNasty]

What like these pictures??

I don't know what you mean ? Watch out for the blue meanies.

 

[BlueJ]

IIRC you used to be able to vote for the man of the match by a text vote which was then awarded at the end of the game. How was this possible if all mobile phones had to be swtiched off during the game?

 

[palexander]

Thanks for the reply Dave, I thought as much.

I'll leave you to deal with the angry mob - sorry for stirring up a hornets nest! :D

 

[TrueBlue]

So I should stop all my activity's forthwith Dave?