Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
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Regards,
Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA
On 4/30/07, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> It's all those damn terrorists in N.M. That or some guy at the airport has
> a 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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