Narrow thing in a shallow mind

With the Olympics coming up, I happened to read a blog that has photography as it's subject. Over at PopPhoto, Zach Honig has a blog that talks about the photography side of the Olympics.

While I would love to attend the Olympics for the spectacle and to participate in a world event. As a photographer, it would be pretty tough for me to be in the stands and not take pictures. On the bottom of the above post, it has links to an Olympic web page that specifically addresses prohibited items. These pages are here and here. Cameras are mentioned. Point and shoot style will be allowed, but professional looking will not. The quality of P&S cameras is pretty amazing now and many of them take pictures that do rival digital SLR cameras. They have zooms, controllable flash and some manual features that would allow an advanced or professional photographer take pictures that they would be content with.

Maybe it is my shallow thought process, but I don't know if I could attend an event like that and not bring my tools. It would be tough for sure.