Can I Bring A Dslr Camera To Thr Empire State Building
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We went to Empire Country Building during our Christmas season (2012) trip to NYC. I carried a modest digital photographic camera in addition to my phone which had a camera. My girlfriend carries a Nikon digital camera D50 with exchangeable lenses, and too a camera in her smartphone. Security checked the camera equipment without difficulty. I was completely unaware that there could have been a restriction; it never raised a question for us. I presume their definition of professional includes much more than serious lenses, tripods and the like, to forbid the possibility of sale of competing photographs.
answered Mar nine, 2013 at 23:33
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If you do not accept a tripod, bipod, monopod, or any other bulky equipment which will create an impediment or disturbance to the other guests, you should be allowed in. I've been upwardly literally hundreds of times, and though I can't speak for them, I've a proficient feeling every bit to what they allow and prohibit.
answered Mar xi, 2013 at xiv:55
They just mean you're not allowed to have photographs for commercial purposes in there, and stuff that into a blanket clause. I've seen hundreds of such statements all over the world and have never been told my professional level DSLRs and lenses aren't immune.
That includes the WTC, though that was long ago earlier the digital age when I was still using 35mm picture show cameras.
Of course you could always run up against a "security" guard on a powertrip who thinks he'due south doing his boss a favour by bullying you lot who tells y'all you need to buy a "photography license", but if you lot stand your ground and demand to see his supervisor that demand is likely to speedily go away.
answered Mar 12, 2013 at 5:sixteen
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But to complete the cycle I went upward the Empire state on Sunday and took my DSLR and 2 other lenses for it and they didn't bat an eyelid.
answered Apr 24, 2013 at 11:41
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Never had a trouble with a DSLR. I don't call back they mean pro-sumer cameras. I think they hateful no large formats, or goggle box product cameras.
answered Mar xiii, 2013 at 22:43
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Just visited last week and I carry a Nikon D5600 for vlogging and they confiscated my Rhode Microphone at security. I got information technology dorsum, merely still, what a pain.
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answered Jun i, 2018 at 17:57
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Were you allowed to go the camera upwardly?
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Simply that assumes the people on security are knowledgeable enough to know the dissimilar, they might merely see fancy looking camera and decide it's pro.
Mar thirteen, 2013 at 22:53
@Phil You don't call up they would notice taking out a 10 pound, sometime schoolhouse big format or a xx pound video camera?
Mar 14, 2013 at 23:l