Photography at the Taj

traveller2000

Greetings,

My girlfriend and I will be visiting the Taj Mahal in mid-March. For this India trip, I'm carrying a small digital SLR w/ a few lenses and a pocket point & shoot digital camera. What are the photography restrictions at the Taj? Can I "get through the gate" with my digital SLR? Do I just need to keep it switched off and in the carrying case? Can you take close-up pictures of the Taj? Can we bring a small daypack inside the gate?

Thanks for any advice.

radz

DSLR /Photography allowed inside Taj,cell phone other electronic itemes are not allowed.

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sunilg

even the tripod is not allowed.

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hfot2

Photography inside the tomb is not allowed - though we saw some people doing it. But guards with lathi sticks and whistles came to yell at them. You pretty well have to shoot flash inside so you'd give yourself away.

Outside the photo ops are endless. If you arrive late in the afternoon you get to shoot the amazing changes in color as the building is bathed in sunset.

There are signs forbidding you to step onto the lawns to photograph, but we were dragged onto the lawn by a guard, even though we didn't want to be. He insisted we take a photograph "just here" [it was a rubbishy, whorehouse, photo] - and then he demanded a tip and insisted on being given more than we offered.

iwanttogoback

no food, no electronic devices including mobiles, yes to daypacks. but your pack will be searched and you will be patted down by someone in uniform. any stuff taken from your pack (like my mango cream biscuits!!) is left at a coat check kind of place just to the right of the entrance.

BuntyAurBubli

I'v read in other forums and web-sites that camcorders and still cameras ARE allowed in the Taj Mahal, albeit for a fee (Rs25-50).
Is this no longer the case?

Beena450

No, there is still a charge for cameras, both still and video

Malkers

true but if you have one of those little pocket ones that fold away in your camera case then you'll likely get away with it, we saw two lone photographers with these last October, they were clearly noticed by security and nothing was said, I remember this so clearly because I was so damn pissed off that I couldn't take mine in!

sunilg

you are right, and I missed my pocket tripod very much there, left it at home when i went to Agra..

Grimes

"Notice, carrying of eatable items, pan masala, cigarattes, match box, bidie, arms, celluar phone, electronic goods, tripod, etc are strictly prohibited inside the monument."