Posted by Andy Richards on January 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Anybody have any information or thoughts about this? I am not certain how many grams of lithium my Nikon D200 batteries have, but am wondering what the solution will be if they are too much.
One data point as to how much this will affect your security check: my wife and I flew out of Houston Intercontinental Saturday with three Canon camera bodies w/ installed batteries, a laptop computer with an extended life battery, an Epson P-2000 with built-in battery, and three spare camera batteries, all Li-Ion. We were asked absolutely nothing about batteries and had zero problem getting through security. They did not even inspect the bags with all the lens and camera bodies. So perhaps there is less to worry about, or perhaps we were just lucky. We'll have a second data point when we return this Saturday.
Posted by Basil Greber on January 7, 2008 at 6:34 PM
From what Thom Hogan (www.bythom.com) says, it seems to be clear that camera batteries are way below the threshold (they are Lithium Ion batteries, not Lithium Metal or whatever the other type is called - I guess it depends on whether there's a lithum salt or elementary lithium used). Shouldn't be a big problem.
Basil
Posted by Andy Richards on January 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Sandy -- Thanks for the link to that thread -- it answers some questions and puts my mind to rest re: flying with my equipment -- FOR NOW
Basil -- Thanks for that -- I hadn't thought about checking on Thom's site
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Basil
Basil -- Thanks for that -- I hadn't thought about checking on Thom's site