Travelling with DSLR in handluggage

rainemac

Hi all,

Is there any problems I may encounter at the airport, I am thinking about bringing my Nikon D3100 in my handluggage,when travelling with Ryanair for a long weekend away in a few weeks. Any problems others have encountered or advice?

Beano

No problem bringing an slr in hand luggage. for obvious reasons i wouldnt put on in a checked-in bag. The only thing to be careful of is the person who arrives late and tries to jam their bag into the same overhead locker as your bag.

Alanstrainor

Just back from Berlin with mine as hand luggage on Ryanair. Always have mine in my bag that sits on my lap/floor. You'll be grand.

rainemac

Beano wrote: »

The only thing to be careful of is the person who arrives late and tries to jam their bag into the same overhead locker as your bag.

Yes def important to remember! was there some change recently about handbags being allowed along with a hand luggage bag, based on gender equality and all I could get my husband to carry it on him in the camera bag and then we can keep it with us perhaps?

wowy

rainemac wrote: »

Yes def important to remember! was there some change recently about handbags being allowed along with a hand luggage bag, based on gender equality and all I could get my husband to carry it on him in the camera bag and then we can keep it with us perhaps?

Yeah, airlines have changed that to now allow a small personal bag along with your regular hand luggage. I now take my lowepro Rezo 170AW which seems to just fit within the size regs for the additional "personal bag".

magicbastarder

check your camera just before you get off the plane - any damage to it once you leave won't be entertained by the airline.

Ben D Bus

Unless it's well packed in my carry-on suitcase (in it's camera case surrounded by clothes), I always put my DSLR under the seat in front of me.

Tiriel

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Unless it's well packed in my carry-on suitcase (in it's camera case surrounded by clothes), I always put my DSLR under the seat in front of me.

Me too. Things get banged about a lot up in the overhead locker and Ryanair are now also doing the 'only the first X number of passengers can carry luggage onto the flight' so everyone else has no choice but to put their carry on luggage into the main cargo hold as they board the plane.

adox

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Unless it's well packed in my carry-on suitcase (in it's camera case surrounded by clothes), I always put my DSLR under the seat in front of me.

Do you just carry it loose or have a case for it? I`m away in the UK this weekend and was going to bring my camera but even my smallest bag, a sligshot, is outside their guidelines for a second bag.

Tiriel

adox wrote: »

Do you just carry it loose or have a case for it? I`m away in the UK this weekend and was going to bring my camera but even my smallest bag, a sligshot, is outside their guidelines for a second bag.

Mine is a slingshot and I brought it on as a second bag

Kenny Logins

I brought a DSLR and two lenses away recently, my 'sling' bag may have been too big too, but it wasn't a problem.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004OVD7O2

Get on early to stow your main carry-on bag, keep the camera at your feet.

adox

This is mine:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lowepro-SlingShot-102-AW-Photo/dp/B003656Q7C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416413613&sr=8-1&keywords=slingshot+102

Too tall.:(

Tiriel

adox wrote: »

This is mine:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lowepro-SlingShot-102-AW-Photo/dp/B003656Q7C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416413613&sr=8-1&keywords=slingshot+102

Too tall.:(

That's the same as the one I brought with me I had a roll on suitcase too.

rainemac

I recently bought a case but its not as good as yers, there fab and v safe looking when out and about and can just swivel it around to grab the camera. On my christmas list for next year!! :-D

Effects

magicbastarder wrote: »

check your camera just before you get off the plane - any damage to it once you leave won't be entertained by the airline.

Surely they wouldn't entertain it before you got off the plane either?

dudara

Always carry my DSLR in hand luggage with me. No issues, though I did have fun once at security in Cork Airport where they were confused by the image of the lens (I think I had two lenses plus the kit) in the X-Ray machine

Mountainsandh

I've been asked several times to take all lenses out and place them in the tray, so now I stick to one or 2 lenses max, and I spontaneously and quickly unload camera and lenses onto tray, then all goes back in swiftly after the check. If I don't do it you can be sure they'll ask me to, so it saves time to preempt.
No problems in cabin with Aer Lingus.

Effects

I never bother taking my camera or lenses out to put in the tray. I've never been asked to do it. I don't see the point in doing something I don't have to when at the airport.

Tiriel

Effects wrote: »

I never bother taking my camera or lenses out to put in the tray. I've never been asked to do it. I don't see the point in doing something I don't have to when at the airport.

I'm the same haven't been asked to take them out either - that would be kind of a pain!

Mountainsandh

Yeah, very much a pain.
I've been asked practically every time I didn't do it within the last 5 years or so, I fly once or twice a year. I hate having to do it at the last minute. It's not a huge hassle if your bag is organised enough, it's more of a pain if you were storing other things in there or had lots of lenses, so I'm organised now. Maybe I'm just unlucky. Or I look like a terrorist disguised as a Mum with 2 kids. :rolleyes:

I was told once it was because the lenses themselves have electronic components, they're like a self-contained item.

rainemac

Hi All,

Just back from my hols and got on great. Airports didn't want the any removing of the lenses nor the camera out of the case so it was easy passing through security. It was the first time having the camera out in such a public space, it was London city, it went well, lots of photos from winter wonderland and didn't feel unsafe and took the underground also. very happy with it but just confirmed that I need a new lens asap!

km991148

look out when taking Ryanair these days - last couple of flights have been full and under their new rules only the 1st 90 are guaranteed the hand luggage. Therefore they go about the end of the queue asking people to put bags in the hold.

I reckon if you said you had delicate equipment then they would move on to the next passenger.

rainemac

I had my husband travelling with me and so he took the camera bag out and it was kept at our feet during the flight so it worked out v well this time.

Cianmcliam

Have always brought my Lowepro camera backpacks on as hand luggage, currently bring a flipside 400AW and have never had any trouble bringing it on board.

Only problem is the weight, with one body, three 2.8 lenses, four speedlights and accessories it is too heavy for hand luggage. Most of the time when I carry it on my back I don't get asked to weigh it. Once though a friend in front text me to say they were weighing the bags so I had to put all my AA batteries in my coat pockets. Going through security with 30 AA batteries in my jacket pockets earned me a good questioning and had to take out the camera and flashes and show they were fully working and not concealing explosives or anything!

Farmlife

I always bring my think tank airport international (carry-on suitcase size camera bag) and have had to do the empty 4/5 tomes in the US and once in dublin.

I was in london last weekend, sailed through screening, got a grand overhead cabin space and everything was going great until i met Mr National Express bus driver.... It started off with me saying i'd put the bag on my lap in my quite voice, to not attract attention. Then at the top of his lungs he went through there health and safety policy and demanded i put it underneath. At this stage everyone on the bus knew i had something of value in the bag so in the end he got his way and I had to strap cameras and lenses to me and get on looking like a right fool.

milkjunkie90

I travel regularly with a dslr and multiple lenses in my handluggage and have never encountered. Some airports require you to remove the dslr and lenses from its bag and put it in the tray as you would a laptop but thats the height of it.

Effects

Effects wrote: »

I never bother taking my camera or lenses out to put in the tray. I've never been asked to do it. I don't see the point in doing something I don't have to when at the airport.

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Dawn Rider

Apparently some of the x-ray scanners can't see clear through the dense lens bodies, so if somebody wanted to bring a knife or gun on board, all they had to do was lay a lens over it to break up the shape.

Most machines I've seen in recent years scan from a number of angles to counter this.