Kind of an odd reaction from this fellow traveler.   I wonder what kind of camera it was?

https://news.yahoo.com/bomb-scare-led-e … 00402.html

I wonder if that poor mistreated photog has any recourse?

It doesn't help matters much when reviewing photos the photographer see's one he likes and says "I'll blow this one up".

As my grandmother used to always say:  Better Safe Than Sorry !

We live in unusual and dangerous times . . .

As we've all been told in recent years:  "If you See something, Say something" !

"... she spotted another man in her husband’s row scrolling through videos and photos of vintage cameras, sources said.

She thought he was looking up bomb-making instructions, and when the man pulled out his own camera and adjusted it she was convinced he was setting a timer on a detonator, sources said."

Sure! Anyone browsing the internet must be looking at bomb-making instructions. Or maybe how to poison his wife?

I've flown with my 4x5 large format camera, and typically have it and baggie of film in my underseat carry on and other accessories in bag for overhead bin. I remove the film baggie and ask that it be hand checked, and have not had a problem with that aspect.

On one flight leaving Phoenix, the hand check and underseat bag were cleared, but the bag for overhead was pulled for hand inspection. I was called over to watch. As I wondered what had caused the need for inspection, they began the swabbing for explosive material, and I was thinking "oh sh*t"; on previous day I had been in the desert outside of Prescott doing a lot of shooting and I began to worry there was GSR all over the place.... The machine came back clear on that test, so the bag was opened and the agent went directly to one corner where I had a stack of 4" square filters for front of lens. I'm sure that 3"x4"x4" block of plastic showed up on their scanner as something quite suspicious! I explained what it was and all was good.