The London Transport Museum last month decided to ban DSLR cameras from the tours of the Aldwych Station on grounds that DSLRs qualified as professional equipment and it’s use was against the terms of the tour. However, a representative of the museum told the British Journal of Photography that in fact, two other factors were bigger issues, that the users of advanced cameras were consuming more time hence delaying the tours as they stopped to click pictures and secondly the station has 160 steps with no lift, therefore tourists carrying cameras, tripods and other photographic instruments was dangerous. The museum has apologized but hasn’t reversed the decision to ban the cameras. They say a specialist photographers day might happen in the future but till then only simple digital cameras only will be allowed.
