Question about flying with equipment

I did a search on this, but couldn't find anything.

I'm getting ready to take a trip to Texas in a couple of weeks. I know that the XRay equipment won't be a problem for my carry-on camera bag and equipment, but I was wondering about the contents of my bag. I've got the typical bag stuff: body, lenses, cleaning tissue, filters, batteries, etc. Will they have a problem with me carrying on any of this stuff?

I'd hate to get there and have to hassle with taking stuff out of my bag.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

I think you should anticipate your worse case scenario,and maybe a full body search as well.lol
(do I hear the "snap" of a rubber glove')?
Why not pack your "non essentials" in your suitcase?

I did a flight in and out of the states a couple of weeks past on business. This was an international flight and two connecting domestic (in the states) flights. Only once did I have the security people ask to open my carry on baggage with my camera in it. It was a quick open it up, remove the camera, show them what it was and carry on.

I found the "removing shoes" bit to be more bothersome.

Detroit to Chicago to Tokyo-Narita to Shanghai-Pudong and back, twice with camera, 4 lenses, 4 camera batteries, EX430 flash and batteries, battery charger, etc etc etc. No problems

Thanks for the comments everyone. I appreciate it.

I think I'll take everything out that I don't absolutely need and it sounds like it won't be a big deal.

Thanks again.

I always pack chargers, cables and stuff like this into checked laugage. Also tripods and monopods, just as all knives screwdrivers etc. go inthere. With carry-on laugage I never had problems till now and I do fly quite a bit. Usually all my cameras, lenses, batteries (at least for cameras), laptop... go into carry-on bag(s). Biggest problem is usually size of carry-on bag and not what's in there. In worse case you need to open bag, and once I need to take lenses off cameras or out of bag, so person on security check looked through. No idea why, but it's not problem anyway. Just consider worse case scenario and come a bit earlier, so you have time for all that. Otherwise it shouldn't be problem.

Small price to pay to know you bag is getting there. The alternative is checking it and getting there only to find out your checked bag didn't make it.

I pack batteries, cleaner, chargers, USB cables, laptop, hell, even an AC converter for the cigarette lighter plug in our rental car, and never been hassled for it.

I travel to Canada all the time, and I always carry on my camera gear. More often than not, I'm told that they have to do a secondary search on the bag after it goes through x-ray; no big deal.

Only once, flying back from my last trip to Toronto, did they pull things out of the bag (looking through lenses, etc), and asked me to turn the camera on. It was no big deal.

In all cases, the security people were very careful with the equipment...

The last 3 overseas trips, my Pelican case has been opened and had the little bomb sniffing pads rubbed all over everything in it. They seemed to be more concerned about the packs of AA batteries than anything else. But if it keeps flying safer then I'm all for it.