What did we do before selfie-sticks?
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I have always just asked a passer by and still do! It's quick simple delivers good results and doesn't make you look like an utter tool. My favourite is still the guy I watched taking pics on an older ipad a few years ago at a major tourist site only for him to then reach into his pocket and pull out an iphone 5 to take a call, the phone not only held a significantly better camera but reduced the looking like a tool factor massively.
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Self timer and a wall.
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cringey-sticks they should've been called.
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set the timer for 3 seconds and throw the camera in front of you 
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I've given my 5d mkii to total strangers on holiday without any concern along with a huge umber of point and shoots and my phone. Pick carefully, if your in a tourist spot pick another tourist they are easy to identify and are more likely to want you to return the favour than to nick your camera!
We travel as a family of four quite regularly. We have and still do give the DSLR to other tourists to take group shots of us.
Generally I go for someone who also has a DSLR. Firstly they will have good knowledge of how to use one and secondly they are less likely to walk off with it.
Generally I go for someone who also has a DSLR. Firstly they will have good knowledge of how to use one and secondly they are less likely to walk off with it.
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Self timer or just asked someone to take the picture. Always did the later on holidays.
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The first time I saw selfie stick was in mid 1990ies. Pink Floyd was playing Earls Court Exhibition Centre and a crew of workers were mounting large decoration of background lit Division Bell masks above the entrance. I was smoking a cigarette outside tube station, admiring their work, when a group of 7-10 Japanese tourists emerged from the tube, crossed the road and promptly started taking turns to do 'selfies' with the partially wired Division Bell masks as their background using what could only be described as 'selfie stick' with bulky compact mounted on one end. It embedded itself in my memory because of the weirdness of the situation and the fact there were enough of them to take a pic of each other, instead of using a stick. Couple of years ago I was watching Canadian version of Dragon's Den when one of the pitching entrepreneurs introduced his invention - an extendable arm/monopod to take pictures of yourself on holiday as if it was something new....
set the timer for 3 seconds and throw the camera in front of you
I still do this! Usually miss half my face and pull the most ridiculous face but it works!
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It's self-portrait. Why did people randomly start calling it selfie one day? As if all of sudden taking a self portrait is a new thing. Likewise booms have been used for decades.
I'd like the ability to magically turn 'selfie sticks' into sticks of dynamite. I'd go to a busy toursit attraction click my fingers and watch the chaos (from a safe distance). Mwahahahahaha.
I use a timer function mostly or a wireless remote.
Rarely a passer-by is asked or offered. Not too worried about them trying to steal anything, I can probably run faster than them.
I'd like the ability to magically turn 'selfie sticks' into sticks of dynamite. I'd go to a busy toursit attraction click my fingers and watch the chaos (from a safe distance). Mwahahahahaha.
I use a timer function mostly or a wireless remote.
Rarely a passer-by is asked or offered. Not too worried about them trying to steal anything, I can probably run faster than them.
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this one is better. I posted it a while ago in GD (also popped it into another topic today)
