Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey group, Another experience at the airport x-ray machine in Washingtn, DC. The security officer insisted that I "turn on" my Leica M-4. She did not accept my explanation that I couldn't turn it on since it did not have any batteries and that ther was nothing to turn on. She insited that all cameras had batteries "for the flash, film winding and zoom." I told her it was an old camera, before they required batteries, and took the lens off, opened the back and fired the shutter a few times. This prompted a call to the supervisor, who examined the camera, and then swabbed it down with a cotton pad, which was inserted into a spectrometer of some sort to determine if there were any explosive residues. Experience in Japan was quite different. There, the security officer immediately recognized the Leica as a camera, nad we had a brief, cordial conversation on the merits of the various M models. Mike Swiek