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Parents need to worry about the person with a 600mm telephoto, IF ANYONE WHICH IS UNLIKELY, not the guy with a Fuji x and 23mm trying to practise street photography.
unfortenately u can get picked on with anything.
I got asked straight up if I was a pedo by a dog walker at a public park, while sitting on a bench, cameras on the bench next to me turned off with lens caps on while waiting for a couple for their pre-wedding shoot once. Worth noting there was not a single human being other than the dog walker and myself in a 250+meter radius
My response to that would have been….unkind.
I’m somewhat lucky in that my physical size means people don’t pipe up too much, though that’s changing as the uk weirdly falls into the belief that nobody would ever punch them in the face (not that anyone should, but let’s not act like it doesn’t happen).
I once shot an incredibly beautiful photo of a child sitting on mum’s lap behind a booth at a farmers market in the USA. She was looking down lovingly and the child reached up with both hands to take her face. It was ADORABLE. she freaked out. Badly. I tried to show her the photo and she was basically shouting paedo and a crowd was forming. I called the police for her.
She would have absolutely loved that photo if she had just been a bit more calm.