[Leica] Re: Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Dang, we went to HK, China, and Japan, and didn't have a problem with the 
film (knock on wood). What's going on here?

At 05:00 PM 4/30/2007, Christopher Williams wrote:
>It's all those damn terrorists in N.M. That or some guy at the airport has 
>a grudge against Leica products.
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>Chris
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>----- 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
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>>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.
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>>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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