> I am going to France for a vacation trip. I would like to shoot some night > scenes in Paris along the Seine and so on. I am thinking of bringing a > tripod along. So here is the question: would I put that inside the luggage > or strap it on the camera backpack (I have a Lowepro Raven? Which is > preferred from air port check in perspective?
I don't think you should count on being able to bring the tripod on board as a carry on luggage, it "can" be construded as a weapon, and it probably won't even be under the regulation dimensions to be considered as a carry on luggage anyway, unless you are talking about a very small tri-pod. A tri-pod also take up quite a bit of volume, you may want to consider a bean bag of some sort, I saw a bean bag with a 1/4-20 thread attachment at a photo show recently, it's not bad at keeping the camera in a predicable attitude without sliding off. Ken -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
