David,
I guess it might be more reasionable to rent equipment for a commercial shoot or even personal work instead of buying insurance, private shipping, etc. if one were going to a metro area with rental services.
FedX, etc. has gotten quite expensive. I'm sending film ahead and doing carry-on for a trip next month. I'll take my chances with camera in luggage plus carry a couple. Wait! How about boxed in dry ice like fish. I see those going through the baggage carousels all the time.
AZ
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Subject: Re: cameras in lugage
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, September 29, 2006 1:13 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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On 9/28/06, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yea, but did you read all the discussion? Seems to me that carry-on is
> still the best. If I were on a business trip and absolutely had to have my
> equipment I would have a bullet-proof plan B. The ship-ahead method is
> probably smartest. How many bazillion packages get express mailed safely
> every day?
I'm planning on carry-on this Sunday, taking the camera collection out
to California. I also don't really have the right bag for the other
approach -- I' d need new foam for the Pelican, to reshape it for the
new equipment (it's gradually changed since I set the Pelican up).
But I own too much equipment to carry it all on. Luckily it doesn't
all apply to the same kinds of photo projects.
Fedex would be another reasonable approach -- again with the Pelican
getting fixed up first. But overnight plus that much insurance would
be fairly expensive. (I've had a friend Fedex his good guitar in
bulletproof case to my house when he was coming out for a convention).
But I'm still very amused that legally putting a handgun in my luggage
can be a way of protecting it from the security goons and baggage
handlers.
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