I've always thought that the Vivitar 90-180 flat field lens would make a nice short heavy club. But they've always let me carry it on, no muss no fuss.
cbwaters wrote: > I was in Michigan again right after Thanksgiving for my sister's wedding(see > my earlier post for the funny photographer story). > Our plane home was delayed so we sat in the airport in Flint for a couple > hours I took this out the window while somebody else's plane home was > getting ready for takeoff. > K10 and FA 28-105. I adjusted the white balance and may have upped the > sharpening a little in the conversion. > http://cwaters.smugmug.com/gallery/3930734#228209720 > > By the way, they let me take my tripod as a carry-on. Our big suitcase was > too heavy on check-in (odd because it actually had less stuff than when we > flew up...) They wanted us to take 5# out or pay a $50 overage charge. The > first thing I thought of was the tripod so it came out. Some other stuff > came out and was packed into the garment bags. It wasn't until I was in the > line at security that I started to think about how many ways the tripod > could be used as a weapon... I heard the screener say " Oh, that's a bunch > of camera lenses... and a really nice camera... tripod... ok, it's all > good." I was pleased because I didn't know what we were going to do at that > point if they balked. > > CW > > > > -- The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team. -- P. J. O'Roark -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
