What's next? No cameras allowed anywhere?

[kkdanamatt]

Headline in today's N.Y. Times:
The U.S. has barred devices larger than a cellphone on American-bound foreign flights from 8 majority-Muslim countries.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Why do you think this has anything to do with cameras?

 

[Mackinaw]

Because it's an electric device, cameras are barred too. Though I wonder if a film camera would be OK?

Jim B.

 

[Huss]

Link does not work for me.

Ruby, they say electronic devices larger than a smart phone. So it can be interpreted as they will, including cameras.
On the upside, travel with a Leica M3, Nikon F etc. Film is back baby!

 

[Hatchetman]

Take a film camera without a battery and you should be good to go.

 

[lynnb]

Ha! Does anyone really think TSA or airline/airport security will actually believe a film camera is not an electronic device - particularly if it has an exposure meter with a switch, e.g. Olympus OM, or a digital readout in the viewfinder? I'm not certain people in those jobs would understand the concept of a mechanical camera, or "film"!

 

[David Hughes]

Exactly, look how many people selling cameras by the dozen (one at a time, obviously) don't know these things...

Regards, David

 

[Phil_F_NM]

If I ever find myself traveling to one of those countries, I'll make sure to take a small handheld light meter and a very large film camera. 4x5 or 8x10, nominally.

Phil Forrest

 

[daveleo]

I'm feeling a cozy warm rush of safety flowing through me.
🙄

 

[kkdanamatt]

Why do you think this has anything to do with cameras?

The article specifically states that cameras larger than a cell phone fall into the category of electronic equipment that will no longer be allowed as carry on or included in checked baggage.

 

[robert blu]

Hopefully pencils and watercolours should be allowed...time to learn drawing...

robert
PS: just kidding a little, but the reality is that life is getting more and more complicated...

 

[ruby.monkey]

The article specifically states that cameras larger than a cell phone fall into the category of electronic equipment that will no longer be allowed as carry on or included in checked baggage.

Please link to the article, then, because all the ones I've found state that all electronic devices larger than a cellphone - not just cameras - are banned.

Your title smacks of 'Aw, poor persecuted photographers!', when in reality cameras are only a tiny proportion of the items affected.

 

[css9450]

The article specifically states that cameras larger than a cell phone fall into the category of electronic equipment that will no longer be allowed as carry on or included in checked baggage.

Your link doesn't work (or maybe you didn't intend it to be a link) but the article I saw on another site said the prohibitions were just from carry-ons.... The devices would still be allowed in checked bags.

 

[Steve M.]

With this White House, every day brings something new. I wasn't aware of this because I finally had to stop reading the newspapers, which worked well! I have no idea what is going on politically anymore and do not much care either, so this was news to me.

As much as I do not like what is going on in D.C., this makes sense though. If it were up to me, I would allow passengers to fly w/ only what they had on, and send their stuff on ahead on a separate unmanned flight. In the end, it would save a fortune because a lot of security people could be let go of, and put a full stop to bombs on planes. As soon as passengers entered the airports, they would hand off all their luggage and possessions to specified people, walk through a metal detector, and they could catch up to their stuff once they landed. This would simplify everything.

 

[kxl]

If I ever find myself traveling to one of those countries...

Phil Forrest

Traveling TO one of those countries from he US is not the issue. Coming back FROM one of those countries when flying one of the named airline is.

While putting your devices in checked luggage is an obvious inconvenience to a lot of good people, it doesn't really stop bad actors from going to a neighboring country and flying to the US. Electronics in checked luggage also seems like a huge temptation for would-be thieves who handle your luggage. Note that existing TSA rules do not allow your checked luggage to be locked.

This is going to be a mess... 😡😡😡

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Traveling TO one of those countries from he US is not the issue.

Coming back FROM one of those countries when flying one of the named airline is.

This is going to be a mess... 😡😡😡

Yes, I made my comment knowing that traveling to the country was not an issue but with the understanding that I would be coming back.

Phil Forrest

 

[Roger Hicks]

Traveling TO one of those countries from he US is not the issue.

Coming back FROM one of those countries when flying one of the named airline is.

This is going to be a mess... 😡😡😡

Dear Keith,

Ah: a business opportunity at the airport: Honest Abdul's Used Cameras...

Cheers,

R.

 

[Brian Atherton]

According to Reuters, this not just a US issue:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-airlines-electronics-idUKKBN16S1TM

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Attention to the passengers: your travel ban is sponsored by Kodak Alaris.

I'm using no electronics film camera (Leica) and smaller than mobile phone digital camera (old Panasonic compact) on trips for some time already. But for countries in the list, I would ban those cameras to myself and take Smena-8M and ten dollars mobile phone. To match adventure experience.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Yes, I made my comment knowing that traveling to the country was not an issue but with the understanding that I would be coming back.

Phil Forrest

Dear Phil,

Alternatively:

A: Go somewhere else

and/or

B: Don't go back...

It's worked for me since 2006, the last time I was in the USA.

Cheers,

R.