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There doesn't seem to be any more information available anywhere else. Just based on what I consider to be a vintage camera, I suspect someone fixated on the owner of the camera for other reasons first before interpreting and reporting the images and the actual camera itself as a bomb.

The fact that the crew went with it instead of trying to discreetly observe what the person was fiddling with is annoying as well ... both from the perspective of the person unnecessarily detained and other people whose lives were disrupted.

> Pictured left: The woman and her kids were seated across from her spouse when she noticed another passenger next to her husband watching videos and pictures of vintage cameras

So, this person is sitting next to her husband, fiddling with a bomb, in her imagination, but her husband is completely unaware? Curious. And the flight crew goes along? Weird. Their behinds are covered since they have a "valid" excuse.

Update: Here is similar take[2] published an hour before I was making my comment:

> This incident raises so many questions for me. Firstly why didn’t the woman engage the man in conversation first, he may have been more than happy to show her how old cameras worked. Did the flight attendants even question the man and try to ascertain what the object was? According to Quartz airline personnel are trained to deal with such situations and make reasoned assessments when passengers report suspicious behaviour.

> ...

> Another baffling part of the…

> I once ordered shampoo sold my Amazon that was obviously fake, and then I searched around and realized Amazon has a program where they gather the products from different sellers and put it in one huge bin and call all of them sold by Amazon.com

This is a common scam. Third party sellers will send a fake product to Amazon to be FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon). When someone buys this product from the seller on the product's webpage, the seller is hoping the buyer will actually receive a genuine Amazon product instead that happens to already be in the warehouse. The buyer will be happy and will not complain, so the seller receives their money. However that fake product is still sitting in the warehouse, and when some unlucky buyer receives the fake product, they'll demand a refund. Some unlucky third party seller will have to foot the bill for that refund.

Youtuber "chaseontwowheels" ordered a $6000 camera Sold and Shipped by Amazon.com. He instead received a box of rocks. He got a refund from a suspicious Amazon and shipped him another camera. While filming a video about the incident, he opened the box and it was rocks again. He ended up buying the camera from B&H and finally got the legitimate product.

https://www.diyphotography.net/buyer-orders-6000-camera-amazon-receives-box-rocks-twice/

I've run into a similar problem. I ordered an electric beard trimmer and the box looked new but there was hair inside so it was obviously used. There were a lot of recent reviews about…

> Do you... A) take the shot from where you are and crop/zoom in post OR B) walk a block and get the shot composed correctly from the start?

If you walk, the composition totally changes. If you like the composition where you are, but it's too small, walking that block will give you something worse.

The steps are:

1. Get the composition right (walking around)

2. Zoom or crop if the subject is too small.

3. Do not walk closer - it messes up the composition.

There's a whole other thread discussing this.

Hint: For the type of photography I do, I almost always get a better composition by being farther and zooming in. You won't get those shots by getting nearer to the subject.

See https://www.diyphotography.net/this-is-why-you-cant-zoom-with-your-feet/

https://www.diyphotography.net/zooming-lens-feet-changes-relationship-foreground-background/

Indeed. Similarly, a lot of the "shot on iPhone" (etc.) footage was shot on a iPhone... that was in a bespoke mount, using professional studio lighting-- usually continuous lighting since flash sync with a camera phone is difficult. Exempli gratia: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads/

For studio photography, the lighting is more important than the camera. I once brought a pro-grade DLSR, a $400 entry-level DSLR, and a final-gen film SLR to the same shoot, and created images with all three using the same lighting setup. The difference in results wasn't immediately obvious.

Modern camera phones have good sensors, so if you drop one into an otherwise-professional studio setup, you'll get good results.

cf. https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/

> much of it was rather insightful while brief

Much of it was misinformed or plain wrong. The particulars has been extensively discussed in this thread.

> The motivated spectator can then google details about your camera's firmware for the next time you travel to North Korea yourself.

The photographer appears to use Nikon SLRs which I am familiar with (I have a Df and has been using Nikon for the past decade). A handful of old models had homebrew firmware patches but it was mostly for shooting video[0]. There has been no new releases since.

Can somebody point me where to look? Googling turned up nothing like what's been described in the linked gallery.

[0]http://www.diyphotography.net/hacked-nikon-firmware-allows-manual-control-d5100-while-liveview/

Don't buy any IT equipment from Amazon. Better yet don't buy anything on Amazon.

Counterfeit networking equipment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-dozens-companies-and-entities-charged-scheme-traffic-estimated-1-billion-fraudulent-and

Counterfeit memory cards: https://www.diyphotography.net/psa-fake-sandisk-memory-cards-are-everywhere-including-amazon/

FYI F3 aka Flight Flash Fraud is a good albeit slow program to verify memory: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Counterfeit i9 processor: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/8vk94b/received_a_fake_i97960x_from_amazon/

Counterfeit laptops: https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/lod5ha/dont_buy_laptops_from_amazon/