Bringing a digital camera to a party - geeky or OK?

[yllus]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: yllus
I've taken a digital camera with a mini-tripod to a number of parties and even the camera-shy love it, especially looking at the pictures immediately after they've been taken. Don't worry about it.

whoa...you take the tripod with you? GEEK!!!

People love getting together for group shots. Drop the digicam on the mini-tripod (folds to about 10 inches in length), hit the 10-seconds countdown timer (complete with a voice counting down the seconds) and you've got a great shot.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

By "aftermath" I mean "some guy passed out in the bathtub who had his friends draw on his face with a sharpie".

 

[sharkeeper]

A real nerd would use a CCD camera in their pocket protector (along with a 6mm electret condensor mic for audio!) and have a lithium power pack and 6 GHz transmitter to send the 720x480p video stream back to an inverter powered SMP streaming data recorder in their car. This way the entire party is captured on decent quality video.

I think bringing a camera along is just fine.

-DAK-

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
By "aftermath" I mean "some guy passed out in the bathtub who had his friends draw on his face with a sharpie".

What camera do you have? No one has asked that.

Don't take it if it is a DSLR! Major geekage!

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
A real nerd would use a CCD camera in their pocket protector (along with a 6mm electret condensor mic for audio!) and have a lithium power pack and 6 GHz transmitter to send the 720x480p video stream back to an inverter powered SMP streaming data recorder in their car. This way the entire party is captured on decent quality video.

I think bringing a camera along is just fine.

-DAK-

Most cameras are of the CCD variety. And you are talking about a *video camera* not a camera.

Koing

 

[tommigsr]

i'd bring it

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
By "aftermath" I mean "some guy passed out in the bathtub who had his friends draw on his face with a sharpie".

What camera do you have? No one has asked that.

Don't take it if it is a DSLR! Major geekage!

Hey, it's a Minolta DiMage F100... It's pretty small but not totally tiny..

 

[jfall]

I wouldn't take it

 

[hdeck]

don't be creepy and take pictures of people you don't know.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
By "aftermath" I mean "some guy passed out in the bathtub who had his friends draw on his face with a sharpie".

What camera do you have? No one has asked that.

Don't take it if it is a DSLR! Major geekage!

Hey, it's a Minolta DiMage F100... It's pretty small but not totally tiny..

I have the same camera myself.

Koing

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
I'm invited to a non-geek party and I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is... I mean, these are the stereotypical cool kids that you fear in highschool... Somehow I've become good friends with one of them and she invited me to a get together..... So a bunch of girls that look like models and a bunch of beatniks will be in attendance - should I leave my beloved digicam at home or not? My gut instinct is telling me to leave it and just to bring a bottle of wine.. But my inner geek is tormented! Help!

If you want to hang with the models again, don't take it!!!

 

[lokiju]

I've gotten some good pics at parties in the past! I don't know why but when drinking is involved, chicks seem to wanna flash the camera all the time.

 

[CTrain]

I went to a conference at week and I brought my Minolta xt(major smallness).
These people were in the 20-35 crowd. I didn't just pulled it out but waited for a good opportunity.
Once every knew I was using it, they all love it and wanted me to email them pictures.
Oh, they loved the movie mode that the camera had too.

So bring it but pull it out at the right time.

 

[MournSanity]

You better fvcking take pics of the girls.

 

[CaseTragedy]

imo doesnt matter if you take it or not. if you suck you will not see them again.

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
I'm invited to a non-geek party and I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is... I mean, these are the stereotypical cool kids that you fear in highschool... Somehow I've become good friends with one of them and she invited me to a get together..... So a bunch of girls that look like models and a bunch of beatniks will be in attendance - should I live my beloved digicam at home or not? My gut instinct is telling me to leave it and just to bring a bottle of wine.. But my inner geek is tormented! Help!

Leave the camera at home and bring a bottle of wine.

If you take the camera, you will probably spend the evening hiding behind it instead of meeting and talking to people.

 

[DT4K]

If these are the "cool kids", I'd think beer would be more in order than wine.
If they are graduate students, they really should be over the "omg, he's such a nerd" phase.
That is so high school.

I'd bring the camera and a case of beer.
Then don't pull the camera out until everyone is hammered.

 

[phatj]

Do you have a social anxiety disorder??

 

[Broohaha]

take pics of the girls then post them on atot. there's nothing geeky about that.

 

[Ameesh]

you should bring your computer so you can post on atot while at the part

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
I'm invited to a non-geek party and I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is... I mean, these are the stereotypical cool kids that you fear in highschool... Somehow I've become good friends with one of them and she invited me to a get together..... So a bunch of girls that look like models and a bunch of beatniks will be in attendance - should I live my beloved digicam at home or not? My gut instinct is telling me to leave it and just to bring a bottle of wine.. But my inner geek is tormented! Help!

Leave the camera at home and bring a bottle of wine.

If you take the camera, you will probably spend the evening hiding behind it instead of meeting and talking to people.

That's my only warning. Bust it out here and there for memorable moments, but put it away most of the time and socialize.
I actually never brought a cam anywhere social (and I am a fairly serious photographer) until I got a half-decent digital camera. Unlike my SLR, it's small and cheap, so I can just throw it over my shoulder and snap a picture at a second's notice.

 

[slackerinabox]

Wow, this is an old thread and that party was over a while ago.. Anyways, I didn't bring a camera and it was a good move.. The party was akward because no one really knew each other so everyone kinda grouped up into small groupings of people that they knew.. A camera would have been a bad idea considering how akward everything already way.. oH well..

the good news is that I did hang out with some of the people from the party and we do stay in touch pretty often.. i brought beer instead of wine, as well..