Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Mon Apr 30 16:00:39 2007
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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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