Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
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grudge against Leica products.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot
> I'm in the Albuquerque airport as I type this, having just passed through
> security. They did exactly the same thing to me, even
> using the same words ("I need some help here"). But all I had in the bag
> was an M8 and some lenses for it. And half a dozen SD
> cards and some spare batteries. They ran it through their scanner about 6
> times, seriously annoying the people who were behind me
> in line, and then took it out of my sight, probably to pour chicken blood
> on it.
>
> I know from my days at NASA helping with the design of computer networks
> for the Space Shuttle that SD cards can be erased or
> changed (but not permanently damaged) by radiation. But the only pictures
> I still had on the SD cards are the ones I took this
> morning in Los Alamos; all the rest got safely uploaded to my laptop and
> then burned onto DVDs. DVDs are not damaged by the kind
> of radiation they use here.
>
>
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