big country wrote:
i find this hard to believe. as of last sunday, there were only 2 1dx bodies in the US.
I've got one of those bodies and I havent been on an airplane since the started putting jet engines on 'em.
rsg_1 wrote:
Unless its a higher supervisor, most TSA agents are paid $40K-$50K per year with a requirement of a high-school diploma. The pay and job security is excellent for the necessary experience and education. There have also been, in my opinion, a disproportionate number of TSA agents stealing cash and goods out of passenger's carry on bags. They typically prey on passengers traveling overseas and non-US citizens who may have poor English speaking skills.
I would be very leery of any TSA agent who discussed permissible bag contents with me or anyone else. I would take down his/her name, the airport they worked at, time, gate location, and my flight information. This information would then be reported to TSA authorities that an agent has taken unnecessary interest in my permissible carry on bag contents since they have a high Dollar value and are often objects of theft....Show more →
Wow.
You won't find very many people who are as cynical as I am about the entire TSA screening process. But, if I were to report that employee for anything, it would be to say how nice it was to have a ray of sunshine is an otherwise-absurd and horrible process.
When a TSA employee says 'body', he is not talking about a camera body. He is talking about body-scans and the images of body parts they see on the scanning machines. For them, 1-DX is just a code name for a particular body part. They actually don't care about cameras. Why care about cameras when there are more interesting things!
i was told there were only two in the US and that they were at the superbowl last sunday. the rest had been sent back to japan. this was told by a canon higher up, but what do i know.
big country wrote:
i was told there were only two in the US and that they were at the superbowl last sunday. the rest had been sent back to japan. this was told by a canon higher up, but what do i know.
copy and paste the entire thing. Fred can't handle long URL's.
That ain't no 40-50k. They pay some librarians better than that, and the only thing they are in charge of is all recorded knowledge in the history of humankind. Not important stuff, like confiscating toenail clippers of mass destruction.
My experience with TSA agents is that the majority of them are just doing a thankless job. Did create a stir one time when the X-ray found a Model A spark plug in my carry-on I was bringing back from a Champion factory (yes, they still make Model A sparkplugs!). I suspect they thought it was some sort of explosive igniter.
surly wrote:
...I havent been on an airplane since [they] started putting jet engines on 'em.
Monito wrote:
...Does that mean you are so young you have you never flown? ...Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something about your sentence.
It would seem so, because it means pretty much the opposite. He's saying he's old enough to have flown back when all airliners had propellers, and (allegedly) hasn't flown during the jet age.
Since the de Havilland Comet entered service in May of 1952, and the Boeing 707 entered service in December of 1957, that means that if we take his statement at face value he must be at least 54 years old, and possibly at least 59. Older, unless the last time he flew he was still a babe in arms.
I'm guessing, though, that he was using a bit of hyperbole.
TSA guy in Dayton translated all the Russian on my FSU rangefinder for me. He was former Military Intelligence and knew Russian.
I normally carry a Leica CL with me when I travel, but for a short trip I took it out and mistakenly left some film in the bag. The bag got tagged for explosive residue so they went thru it. The TSA agent pulled out the film and looked at it like it was a riddle. Guess he has never seen film before??
anselwannab wrote:
TSA guy in Dayton translated all the Russian on my FSU rangefinder for me. He was former Military Intelligence and knew Russian.
I normally carry a Leica CL with me when I travel, but for a short trip I took it out and mistakenly left some film in the bag. The bag got tagged for explosive residue so they went thru it. The TSA agent pulled out the film and looked at it like it was a riddle. Guess he has never seen film before??
Hrow wrote:
I found it wise to tell the TSA first when I have my Gitzo in my carry-on. The three legs and the separate ballhead apparently are enough to make them wince and edge closer to the alarms.
I always travel with mine in my carry on and have never had any issues. I'd be more worried about drawing their attention to my gear. I'm just bummed were not going to get the new pre-screen fast pass in Detroit.
I worked as an airport screener back in College (around 1984 or so). I didn't last long. It's a horrible, horrible, thankless job that nobody appreciates. People who worked it were either college students, retirees or people who just couldn't find anything else. You spent long hours stuck on a checkpoint with boring people and nobody to talk to and nothing to do. When you finally got someone to talk to, they considered you an annoyance -- and I'm sure it's worse now.
The pay is a little above min wage because nobody wants to do it. You couldn't even go anywhere on your lunch break other than the airport because by the time you got off the property it was time to come back.
I found a few illegal weapons (including two guns) while I did it, and that was the high point. The xray machine was cool for a couple of days, but that's about it.
rsg_1 wrote:
Unless its a higher supervisor, most TSA agents are paid $40K-$50K per year with a requirement of a high-school diploma. The pay and job security is excellent for the necessary experience and education...
I would be very leery of any TSA agent who discussed permissible bag contents with me or anyone else.
Wow, talk about profiling! Just because someone make 40k a year and they have only high school diploma makes them suspect?
rsg_1 wrote:
Unless its a higher supervisor, most TSA agents are paid $40K-$50K per year...
twistedlim wrote:
Wow, talk about profiling! Just because someone make 40k a year and they have only high school diploma makes them suspect?
And trust me, they don't make $40 - $50 thousand per year; the pay levels for TSA airport screeners aren't much higher (when adjusted for inflation) than they were for the contract-security screeners airports had previously.
The screeners make $25K - $30K, and the supervisors make$ 40K - $50K.
I just got back from photograping the ISU Four Continents figure skating championships in Colorado Springs. One of the top Japanese photographers, M. Sugawara, had two 1DX bodies along with the new 400 2.8 IS MkII.
You shoot babies for a living!