[Leica] What would you do if this happened to you?

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

I have had a similar problem travelling with an M6
security people ask for it to be switched on. Normally
they do not believe that a camera exists that does not
need switching on. This happened in many places over
the last 15 years.
Frank

--- Daniel Ridings <daniel_ridings@yahoo.se> wrote: >
I would be sad, Ted, very sad. Then I'd be pretty
> p%ssed.
> 
> Passport will cover, probably, but that doesn't help
> when
> you need the cameras like right _now_.
> 
> I always carry mine on me. I quit using the
> Halliburton for
> check-in when it kept raising suspicion and missing
> flights
> and pendled around Africa for four or five days
> before it
> ever got back to me.
> 
> I had a little (humorous) problem with security in
> Harare,
> Zimbabwe about a week ago. The cameras raised
> suspicion, as
> they should with security people, but it took me
> about 15
> minutes to convince the guy that no matter how much
> we
> pulled the M2 and M4 apart, we were just not going
> to find
> a battery compartment. He had never heard of a
> camera
> without batteries.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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