Camera policy at Wembley Stadium

We had to have our SLRs kept back for a Steven Wilson gig at Shepherds Bush , of course there were many videoing the concert with their phones, albeit in small chunks. 

We are going on Saturday, but I won't lug my DSLR around London. I'll have my compact and iPhone though.

Roger shoots his audience with a machine gun these days. I think anything that looks professional won't get in so keep the lens short and I guess it will be ok. I'll be there with my camera phone.

Using flash?

If you use flash it is totally off-putting for the performers, but if not, well no harm unless your camera intrudes into someone else's sight-line.

But if it is specifically barred, then there is a good reason for that.

ATB from George

He's a lad isn't he ... (said in Monty Pythonesque tones).

When he was coming up with what became the Wall wasn't one of his original ideas to actually bomb the audience just to see if they would notice and not just keep cheering everything wildly ?

Take your point(s) re DSLR - mine is a full frame model so not exactly small. My other half has an iPhone which I guess I'll try to commandeer for a few shots.

Hope the weather is kind to us on Saturday.

The indoor shows all had an announcement asking for no flash as it would impact on the projections  - however they didn't ban all photography.  That said, a mate of mine had his (admittedly quite serious) SLR confiscated for the duration of one of the shows at the O2 and I'm fairly sure the small print mentioned something about SLRs or serious cameras.  I agree with John3, I think their main intent was to discourage 'professional' photography.

Like the avatar name Scott!

These live gig photography rules make me chuckle. The folk implementing them don't seem to have a clue regarding the results you can get from the latest mirror-less cameras using a fast prime lens f2.8 or faster) in low light yet they look small enough to be passed off as 'amateur' gear compared to an older DSLR sporting a slow (f5.6 or slower) zoom telephoto kit lens.

All of the above still dependant on you getting a spot as close to the performers (like the pros in the 3 songs and out pit) as possible of course...

Go and enjoy the concert in the moment. Leave all your phones and cameras at home. If you want a lasting memory, buy the t-shirt.

Hear, hear.

steve

I did buy at t-shirt at the 1981 show ... now where did I put it 

Actually I tend to agree. I took my camera to gigs for a few years only taking a few shots at each but stopped in about 1990 when the large men in black t-shirts started confiscating film (happened to a mate of mine at a Stones concert at Wembley). Now it amuses me more than annoys me to see people holding their camera phones up. And using flash. 

Sorry about the video - I obviously got mixed up on the thread.  (I wondered where it had gone when I was on the other one...duh!)

I saw this performance a few years back and am also going on Saturday.  As far as I remember there was an announcement before the show that Roger had no problem with anyone taking photo or video during the show (plenty of it on YouTube!), although there may have been a 'no flash' request/rule...

Hope this helps,

Phil

If you do take a camera/phone, you probably don't want to be using a flash...Pointless.

Agreed, it always makes me laugh to see pin pricks of light from 200m away from the stage! I think for this particular show they're concerned about flashes from in front of the stage interfering with the perception of the projections onto the 'wall'...

I told a friend just to take a shot straight ahead and see how many rows the flash  illuminated. He soon stopped and tried to get no flash pics from then on.