Wow, soon I am going to have a little book assembled from your helpful posts Thank you!

Sony was just behind Nikon. Great stand, happy reps and a barman juggling bottles around for photo purposes

Unlike the gov page someone linked, Kuwait seems affected as well. We got emails this morning advising all employees travelling to the US and the UK to make sure their electronics are packed in such a way that they can safely go to the hold. Kuwait Airport Authority apparently said there will be no extra charges for the additional hold baggage on Kuwait Airways, Qatar Airways, and Emirates flights, no mention of charges on BA or any other Western airline. Camera equipment is included. Batteries are to be taken out and transported in carry on bags. Equipment without removable batteries may be refused. Like John sais, if travelling, it may be best to contact the airport/airline in question directly, instead of relying on bits of news here and there.

Hm, how do they expect you to put anything you buy at duty free in the luggage you don't have with you anymore ?

You can effectively kill all comms in a room so no signal can be transmitted. They use it in cinemas in the Middle East haha...as they are not very considerate of others so simply, as you enter, the signal gets cut off.

Welcome to the forums. Another Irix fan here. Love the 15mm and can't wait for the 11mm to come out in Pentax mount. Looking forward to seeing your photographs!

As inconvenient as it is, I'd much rather be safe then sorry; or more likely, dead. I travel to the Middle East several times per year, and sadly security at most of their airports is appalling; as an example: I was late for my last flight back home; few smiles, and I got fast tracked through passport control and security. No one checked anything as they assumed a white, blond, middle aged woman is unlikely to be a threat and as I was accompanied by a staff member, they did not even tell me to put my carry-on through the scanner.

We really should be content that someone is taking it seriously.

Time to invest in proper hard case

Some of the 'deals' where not very favourable. An obvious one was SanDisk, an average of 15% more over standard Amazon price w/free delivery on all their cards regardless of distributor; how is it even legal to do that, beats me. Sell for whatever you think is fit, but don't try to tell me I'm getting a better price then normal.

I did pick up a Wacom tablet - the difference in price paid for my ticket and coffee.

The railway was about the only good thing about it in my opinion. The reps where politely indifferent, almost bored. I wasn't expecting much but it felt sad anyhow. To be fair though, I found the whole event somewhat underwhelming in many ways, bar few stands.

Oh, nice heads up. Will watch on Iplayer