Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/23

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Subject: [Leica] About ready to give it up...
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Fri Jul 23 16:59:41 2004
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Jim Laurel offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] About ready to give it up...


> The best solution I have found to this over the years is a camera vest.
>   If I run into a restriction, I start stuffing things into my vest.
> For now, no airline has rules about how much your clothes can weigh.<<<


Well guys and gals in the good old days when you checked in and everything
you were checking and carrying was weighed, some of the globe trotting
photogs would do this little caper..... good, bad, evil or stupid because
back in the early '60's weight was a major concern when loading a plane.

As soon as we arrived at the airport, and before checking in, we went to a
rent-a-locker and dumped 90% of the stuff out of the camera bag into the
locker, then checked in. Nice light bag. "Not much in there is there?" said
the agent.  "nope, it's so I can bring home lots of souvenirs!" ;-) says I.
:-)

After we were squared away we returned to the locker, loaded all the extra
camera bodies, lenses and whatever else we could squeeze into the bag.

Off to gate and board plane. I'm of course not advocating that these days as
who knows what surveillance cameras are watching everything from lockers to
the can! However, it worked in the golden olden days. ;-)
ted




















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