Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Neanderthal man takes camera looks through view finder and says, "OK >that's fine. have a good flight." At this point you keep your teeth clenched, sort of smile and move on. > > HAHAHAHAA!!! I think my brain just seized up! Good god! Feli On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 20:13, Ted Grant wrote: > Leo offered: > >>I went through an airport last week and they had me take the lenscap > >>off of my noctilux so they could look through the lens of the M7. > >>Didn't bother to explain that it didn't work that way.<<<<<<<< > > Scary part about this is that we entrust our lives to these same people to > keep us safe in the air! :-( > > I had a similar thing happen in Vancouver a year ago with an M7!. And > neither did I say anything at first simply because, I figured they'd want > to > take the camera apart to make sure it was a camera. Along with the same > person telling me to "turn the camera on so she could look at the screen." > > OOPS! "This camera doesn't have a screen." says I. "Then what's behind > this little door if there isn't a screen?".she says.:-( > > "Film!" says I. "And I can't open it or I'll spoil my pictures and the > roll > isn't finished yet." "Just a minute." says she. > > And off she goes for the chief guy and as they return he says... . "What's > the problem here that you can't turn the camera on and show the screen?" > says the missing link of human kind. "It's not an electronic digital > camera > because it uses film and there's nothing to turn on. But you can look > through the view finder and see it's OK without spoiling the film." says I. > > Neanderthal man takes camera looks through view finder and says, "OK > that's > fine. have a good flight." > At this point you keep your teeth clenched, sort of smile and move on. > > Security eh? Well OK if you say so. > > ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feli di Giorgio Visual Effects Supervisor "Hostage" creocollective - feli@creocollective.com