Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Luggers, My recent experience at Washington/Dulles airport may amuse you. The X-Ray machine operator asked to see the M-4 I was carrying in my carry-on bag. I opened the case and he asked that I "turn it on" so he could "see the lens move or lights light up, or something to show that the camera was working." I told him that the camera had no lights, no beeps and no batteries. he was not convinced. I removed the lens, opened the back, wound the camera, fired the shutter. Still did not convince him that the M-4 was indeed a camera. Finally he took camera and lens, swabbed it carefully with a special soft cloth swab, placed the swab in a spectrometer of sorts, and only then determined that the M-4 was not an explosive device. Mike Swiek