Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michiel, Michiel Fokkema wrote: > Scary, > > I wasn't arrested yesterday in the London underground but I was told I > couldn't make any pictures. > It seems that they are afraid that people photograph places in which > they can hide explosives. There are actually two reasons, one is the one that you give - which to some extent is understandable; the other is that flashes can trigger the alarms signalling an explosion when picked up by the cameras. Hence blanket ban. Doesn't matter that you don't use flash. I know we did it a few weeks ago when we drove into a carriage on the Eurotunnel with our headlights up. We triggered the alarm in all twelve carriages we passed through! Peter Dzwig