Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In an interesting side note to this thread, I travelled through Calgary, Dallas, Tampa, Chicago, Toronto and Winnipeg airports a week ago. I gave my 2 cameras to the security guards at all of them to hand inspect, as I didn't want them scanned. I was using a IIIa, and also had a (shudder, shudder) Kodak APS. Honest, I was only using it for record keeping shots of my site visits!!! In all the airports, the APS was no problem, they looked at it, saw the LCD display when it was opened and were happy. The Leica! Well that was a different situation, none of the security guards seemed to understand what it was they were looking at, how do you turn it on, where is the display, etc. It was subject to more handling than it would have received at a camera show! I found it all rather amusing except at DFW where I was tight for my connection, and didn't need to be spending time educating security guards in classic cameras. Noel Charchuk