Chicken Little here:
Yesterday (Sunday) in the airport in Dublin my daypack came open and a
hipbelt camera bag decided to exit it and take flight to the floor. A
24/2.8 was in an unprotected pocket and now sports a fine dent in the
filter ring. The OM-2 slid into the 200/2.8 and the hinge put a nice ding
in the lens shade. The Om-2 misfired but immediately freed up when I
rotated the shutter speed ring to "B". The 35/shift appears to have
survived unscathed as it was on top of everything else. The ATX 35-70/2.8
was on the camera at the time and looks to be ok.
Two hours later in Heathrow (armpit of major airports--only second to JFK),
The strap holding the bag to my shoulder decided to no longer stay attached
and the entire daypack plummeted earthward. This time the Toshiba Tecra
laptop sacrificed itself for the camera equipment--whew! Part of the
800x600 active matrix screen is toast, the case bent and battered, but the
HD and motherboards survived OK. Infact, the CD-ROM even works faster now.
Hmm...
I was upset enough about both incidents that I didn't even bother to try
and get my film handchecked!
BTW, I counted how many times I got my bag zapped by xray on this trip: 7
times. That was to just one destination and back. Oh, I did manage to get
my film hand checked once at Heathrow again (an impossibility?). They sure
do look at my tripod funny though. (camoflogged).
Ken Norton
Quincy Illinois where all streets run north/south east/west.
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