Frank Theriault wrote:
Geez, the last time I flew back from my Mom's place in Nova Scotia, I think I
said something to piss of some frustrated security guard.
On a high school trip to New Orleans with our school bands, the airport
security people kept asking me to open the bass amp because
I frequently travel through airports with a lead bag full of film. I
leave the lead bag in my carry on, and, of course, it shows up on the
x-ray as an impenetrable object. More than once, security guards have
failed to check it. Of course they almost always make me switch on my
laptop. Forget the
Why do the airport security guards insist on peering through the viewfinder
of a non-SLR camera? What do they think they're gonna see?
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Why do the airport security guards
insist on peering through the viewfinder
of a non-SLR camera? What do they think
they're gonna see?
I've not noticed this on any flights on which I've carried
rangefinder cameras.
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a laptop
computer open it up and turn it on.
Jerry in Houston
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Why do the airport security guards insist
board the plane with it
anyway, and I'm glad they did. But by the previous logic, that camera was a
prime suspect.
Tom C.
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Why do
On 8 May 2001, at 10:59, Lewis, Gerald wrote:
I think the reason is they believe that if a camera body has been gutted in
order to put in explosives or other such stuff that the viewfinder optics
could/might be destroyed or effected. I would rather they look than not and
miss something.
On 8 May 2001, at 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do the airport security guards insist on peering through the viewfinder of a
non-SLR camera? What do they think they're gonna see?
Who knows, maybe they are related to the clowns who indicated to me that
the carry on x-ray equipment
Gerald F. Cermak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I once had an old lady working security at SeaTac insist on looking through
my T4 Supers viewfinder. I'm not sure what she was expecting to see.
The reason for looking through viewfinder on SLRs and for changing the
display on a cell phone is to make
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