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Subject: [Leica] Homeland security woes, digital cameras, and not usingLeicas
From: summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)
Date: Wed Aug 3 20:09:23 2005

I have an old DCS560 and I believe it has a featute which allows you to beam 
photos directly to a satellite and to your home base. Besides allowing you 
to get the pic to print quickly, it may also allow to have an empty CF card 
when the idiot sees you.
Javier

>Sorry to hear about your woes. You should be able to get your
>card back. Fight it like a wild cat. "It takes a village," in this case
>a village of pissed off litigous photographers :-)
>
>A buddy recently talked to me about keeping a cheapo CF card
>and/or cheopo roll of blank film to turn over to authorities should
>the occassion arise.
>
>Scott
>
>Albert Wang wrote:
>
>>Hi Leica-files,
>>
>>Looks like the UTA (utah transit authority) nabbed me
>>off the trax last Saturday due to my slinging my Canon
>>D30 camera around my shoulder. Okay, they found some
>>landscape and architectural shots and confiscated the
>>CF card. Not a happy camper there. I believe that it's
>>unlawful search and seizure once again. Anyways, they
>>wrote me an ordinance fine which is a complete joke.
>>50 ducks?
>>
>>My roommate tested it as well. He brought a Nikon N55.
>>He did confront the same female police officer (whom I
>>confronted already once a few months ago) and no
>>problems there.
>>
>>Conclusion: White guy photog, alright. Asian photog,
>>profiled. I guess that there is color profiling for
>>photoshop and color profiling for the authorities :p.
>>
>>Anyways, I did talk with my bishop who is also a trial
>>prosecution lawyer and he is going to be settling this
>>fairly soon.
>>
>>2nd Conclusion: Busted once with Olympus E-10, busted
>>once with Canon D-30 with Canon lens. Never busted
>>with Leica. Must use Leica lenses on digital Canon.
>>Okay. Must be that Leica is the magic brand here.
>>
>>Okay, hey Paul. Just a shout out to my crew.
>>
>>It's back to some real picture taking again. Enuf of
>>the ranting.
>>
>>
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