If they take the camera will you get it back??????

They didn't check the cameras last night :) (even though the tickets say No Camera/Video/Rec on the front of them, interestingly though your not allowed balls in the stadium)

 

You go though the automatic ticket barriers into the search team, but with a lotta people to get though they ain't that picky

Hi! This thread seems to be a bit dead at the moment, maybe someone could help my anyhow?

Wembley has the restriction; No ''Professional cameras & recording devices (This applies to cameras that have interchangeable lenses)''

 

Do you think a Nikon D60 would be allowed? It only has the standard lens of 18-55 mm VR on it.

 

Help with this would be highly appreciated! :)

I think it is allowed if it fits in your pocket, otherwise probably not... it also might depend on how lucky you are. My bag wasn't even properly looked through yesterday, so I could have easily brought in a professional camera, lol.

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Haha, it won't fit in my pocket, I can guarantee that. Well, we'll see what I decide upon. The only thing they can do is take it and keep it until after the concert, right? Or could they deny me entry? :o

is says that mobiles and small cameras for personal use are allowed.

question is, what is small for them?

^ That's true. I think I'll try to call Wembley customer service or what not and ask!

I found this:

 

Wembley has a policy of "no professional cameras" allowed. Like me, you may be wondering just what the hell a professional camera is. Is it a camera that can no longer compete in the Camera Olympics because it's given up its day job as a butcher? Apparently not. Is it a camera that isn't also a phone? No, because the policy states that small cameras are allowed. Just no professional ones. Could a steward or someone you phone up tell you? No, because they don't know either.

 

I took my Canon EOS 350D DSLR with a small 50mm prime lens with me anyway. The person patting me down checking for concealed pies told me that if I used my camera in the stadium then I'd be forced to delete the pictures, possibly under threat of pitchforking. Oh. However, next to me another gentleman getting patted down by another steward was permitted to enter without any warning despite carrying a high end Nikon with a large - probably 300mm telephoto - lens attached. He snapped away merrily inside the stadium. So did I. However, he probably didn't forget to alter the ISO setting and set aperture priority on and then cry inside when he got home and realised that the camera had decided that "there won't be much blurring with a shutter speed of a fifteenth of a second".

 

Dear Wembley, your camera policy sucks. It doesn't matter if the camera is "professional" or if the lens is "professional", whatever that means anyway. If the person holding the camera is a rank amateur and potentially mildly drunk then his photos from some distant tier of the stadium will not ever infringe upon the pitchside photographers' God-given rights to earn money from their far superior pictures. P.S. I thought your chicken balti pie was surprisingly nice.

Camera policy @ Wembley?

 

Is there a camera policy at Wembley? Can you take a decent camera in (i.e. one with interchangeable lenses)?

Is there a camera policy at Wembley? Can you take a decent camera in (i.e. one with interchangeable lenses)?

 

Probably but you have to be smart and sneaky. But i'ts a risk taker,

For U2 at Wembley, the camera policy was: Small digicams are ok, SLRs with Interchangable lenses were not.

 

This policy was enforced, so be careful if you plan to smuggle in a large camera.

 

Also, this was U2's policy. I'm not sure what Coldplay's policy is.

For U2 at Wembley, the camera policy was: Small digicams are ok, SLRs with Interchangable lenses were not.

 

This policy was enforced, so be careful if you plan to smuggle in a large camera.

 

Also, this was U2's policy. I'm not sure what Coldplay's policy is.

 

I'd rather hope Coldplay's would be nicer and more liberal than the average band's! :)

Don't count on it.

Yes, it's not the band who decides, but the security of the stadium :wink:

the venue decide the camera policy. if you check out the t&c's for entry to Wembley on their site, I'm sure it advises about cameras

You are not allowed to take any cameras in at all, but with so many people with camera phones, enforcing this would be impossible, i just kept my camera in my pocket so if they did search me (just tapping trousers) it would just feel like a phone

 

I would advise not taking a big camera!

This is what's written on the tickets

 

"You shall not bring into (or use within) the Stadium 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 the Event or any aspect of it, except for mobile phones and small cameras used for personal and private purposes only. Prohibited items may be confiscated. Unauthorised photography or use of recording equipment is prohibited. You assign the future copyright in any photographs, films or recordings that you make at the stadium in breach of this prohibition to the Management".

 

so that means small camera and camera phones yes, SLR and videocameras no. I have a point and shoot camera which looks more like a SLR, with a big zoom and I had no problem in taking it with me for U2, but of course I had no interchangeable lenses with me, so that may be the reason :)

Mine is also a point and shoot but SLR look-alike, though smaller. hopefully I'll have no problems getting it in.

I'll probably take this one ... do you think it's okay ?

I would say yes. But it depends how big it is....

It's quite big, but less than a bridge camera though :\

Nikon D60 is SLR Camera, so probably you won't be albe to sneak in with it.

Last year the guard stoped us and we had Canon G9 with us, (It's not SLR, but a bit bigger than regular point and shoot cameras, so probably he took it as pro camera). We explained that it was P&S , he hesitated but still let us in.

now is it possible to carry a camera?

now is it possible to carry a camera?

 

Have seen them over a dozen times and taken plenty of photos, as long it is a small digicam you should be fine but you do get some over zealous security who like nothing better than to tell people to stop taking photos so just keep your eyes open !

 

Cheers and enjoy!