Originally Posted by txrus
While I can't explain it (nor, I suspect, can anyone @ TSA, but that's another story), I can tell you that an extensive, indepth study last summer w/mine revealed that if I took the cartridge & battery out of it, no one so much as blinked when it went thru the x-ray, but if one or both were in the camera where they belonged, the screener had a fit every time.
Hmm... I dont think I've observed that recently. depending on the timing
sometimes I travel with my notebook computer, about 2 spare batteries
my digital SLR and point and Shoot and a lot of spare batteries.
about 3-4 mobile phones, spare batteries and chargers.
no one ever asked me to open the bags even with about 15+lb batteries inside.
Ofcourse the computer was always on a tray.