Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to add that the security official at the airport in Harare was very polite and friendly. In the end, he was more fascinated by these relics from the colonial times than anything else :) Daniel --- FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > > more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information