Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just use a regular suitcase (roll up the lenses in undershirts) and buy insurance for your luggage. Put the bodies in your carryon, since they're 1000 times more likely to fail as a result of being bumped. All of this attracts a lot less attention and it's cheaper. If they're small, expensive items, you might consider using Express Mail. Its minimum insurance is $500, will get there before your luggage (if you are flying Northwest), and it's not that expensive to send a box. Martin Howard wrote: > Does anyone sell cases that pad cameras and lenses well enough to enable > them to be sent as checked luggage at airports? Cases that will withstand > the delicate touch of the tossers who work there? And just how horrendously > expensive are such cases? Can they be used more than once? > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | iCon iDole iRate > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | iDeal iDull iMage > email: howard.390@osu.edu | iSue iOn iGnorance > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------