lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I dunno, this might be a good idea:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_camer.html
AZ
Build a 120/35mm Lookaround!
The Lookaround Book.
Now an E-book.
http://www.panoramacamera.us <http://www.panoramacamera.us/>
Put my stuff in checked luggage? I don't thnk so.......
One day I ordered a $17,000 processor module to put in a Customer's
computer later that evening. Before I got on site at the 2300
scheduled time the Customer called and wanted to postpone the repair
activity and asked that I stop by in the morning.
The next morning I saw the package that my Customer received. It had
TSA inspection stickers and tape on it and looked as though the box had
been dropped from about a mile high. Inside the module was just tossed
in the remains of the box and not in the static wrapper. I understood
and agreed when my Customer wouldn't let me install the module in his
computer.
After at least six months the module was just written off because of the
crap the TSA wanted us to do to prove that they destroyed the module.
The air carrier told us that since it had all the TSA stickers and tape
on itthey had no responsibility.
A coworker once had his lock cut off and replaced with a blue tie wrap
and a note that the bag had been opened by TSA for inspection. Don't
remember what he had in it though.
And I'm going to trust them with my camera and lenses? A I said, I
don't think so.
Last month I flew from CLE to LAS and back with no problems and
courteous treatment from the TSA people at both gates. In fact, while
starting out in CLE the TSA guy asked if my camera was film or digital
as I put it on the belt to get scanned.
I admit I only had one body/lens and three other lenses and a flash,
probably not what a Working Pro would have but I had no problems.
BTW, the second module was in a pristine package and the Customer is
fixed......
Bob
--
/////
( O O )
--------------------oOOO-----O----OOOo-----73 de w8imo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Curiosity killed the cat although I was a suspect for a while........
