Going through airport security, what to do?

Well I have been all over the place, and usually I bring one camera body (XTi) with a lens with me onto the flight through security. I very carefully stash another lens, batteries, etc in my check-in.

This was before I got serious and went out and bought a couple of Ls and am now looking at a 5D, possibly a IIIs. Now do I really want to walk through airport security with $10k of camera/lens around my neck? Someone could walk off with the thing as it goes through the scanner/it could fall out on the other side.

What does everyone else do? Do you hang it around your neck? Use your camera bag (which will add up to more than $10k) as your carry on?

It's called insurance.

Insure it.

Put it in a good bag.

Go through security.

Repeat. That is it. I just got back and had that much in a Domke F-804. Pro equipment is made to go around the world and I would never put anything in a checked bag.

insurance and i keep the stuff in a bag and my bigger lenses in their hard cases...no one will run away with it through the security machine. being inside an airport is one of the safest places to be.

scotteisenphotography wrote in post #5751248
being inside an airport is one of the safest places to be.

Yeah it's once you get on the plane that you have to worry.

cdifoto wrote in post #5751251
Yeah it's once you get on the plane that you have to worry.

indeed, i am also terrified of flying. but hell ive flown 4 times in the last 4 days.

Whenever I go through security at the airport, I have a set routine that I go through no matter what. I always have two carryons: my computer bag and my camera bag. The laptop comes out of the computer bag and placed in a bin with my shoes on top. I place my camera bag in another bin and place it behind the laptop bin, then I put my computer bag down behind the first two bins on the conveyor belt. I then stand there and wait until my computer bag has entered the X-Ray machine. Then I'll move forward and walk through the metal detector. If for some reason I am pulled to the side for an "extra special" check, I politely tell the TSA person that I have two bins with very expensive equipment in it that need to be watched while I am being probed! As long as I am polite during the whole process, I have never had any problem with my equipment during a security check in. Hope this helps!

Sorry, I thought Insurance was a given fact!

Flying doesn't bother me. It's the crashing and/or exploding part I'm not too fond of.

cdifoto wrote in post #5751280
Flying doesn't bother me. It's the crashing and/or exploding part I'm not too fond of.

Well that too!

The upside is I wouldn't have to file a claim and eat the deductible. The downside is I bought insurance for nothing.

I have two rails, couple of steel plates and a dozen of screws in my neck, so I beep all over the place anyway..

Hermeto wrote in post #5751347
I have two rails, couple of steel plates and a dozen of screws in my neck, so I beep all over the place anyway..

You really ought to look into padding for your headboard. Yeesh!

I spent all my professional life being a ‘hardware guy’.
That expression just got another meaning for me, I guess..

cdifoto wrote in post #5751280
Flying doesn't bother me. It's the crashing and/or exploding part I'm not too fond of.

Yeah, might break an L or two...