You can't use your DSLR in Kuwait.

[Glenn]

But you can use a compact camera  http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/24/kuwait_dslr_camera_ban/

[Rik]

I wonder where they stand on bridge cameras?

[Simon]

They probably wouldn't work well after being stood on.

[Rik]

[Simon]

[gizmo71]

What about a compact camera with interchangable lenses?

Or a pair of binoculars with a camera built in?

[Rik]

Or a mobile phone with camera?

[D-Dan]

Or a mobile phone with camera?

Covered in the article. Cameras in phones are OK. If I ever go I'll take the Samsung Compact just in case they won't let me use the Fuji (Bridge Camera).

Steve

[gizmo71]

Do they already have a ban on film cameras?

[Rik]

How about camcorders? It's just so weird a ruling.

[pctech]

Surely it has to do with the zoom capability?

[Rik]

Lots of compacts now have significant zoom though, Mitch. 

[pctech]

Could it be to restrict the possibility of the use of telephoto lenses?

When I was at York Minster I saw someone with one mother of a telephoto lens.

[Rik]

Why should that be a problem, though, Mitch?

[pctech]

Pass, senesitive military installations or it being against Islam in some way?

[Rik]

But with some compacts offering 14Mp and a 600mm equivalent lens, it's crazy. Especially as the satellits would long since have captured the military bases. As for being anti-Islam, that would surely have to apply to any camera?

[pctech]

Pass Rik, am really speculating.

[Rik]

There was one religious group which felt that if you took their picture you captured their soul, but I haven't heard of that happening for a while now.

[pctech]

The Amish perhaps?

[Rik]

I think it was Hassidic Jews, when photography was first becoming widely used, Mitch, but I may be wrong.

[Technical Ben]

I think it was Hassidic Jews, when photography was first becoming widely used, Mitch, but I may be wrong.

I thought it was those tribes in the forests? 
Something along the lines of their beliefs and paintings? As it's the first time they ever saw a photo, the only other thing in their history to relate it too is a voodoo doll! 
(Entirely hypothetical here )

[Rik]

I'm certainly not sure, Ben, I just remember noting it somewhere.

[gizmo71]

Turns out to be complete cobblers after all. More kuwality journalism (see what I did there?).

[pctech]

Not just our newspapers then.

[Rik]

Seems not.