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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
It was quite a piece of gear for it's time. I took that camera to shoot porn movies all over North And South America from New Jersey to South Florida to Quebec to Ontario to California to Las Vegas, Cuba and Brazil and a lot of other places in between. And now it's serving me well one more time and hopefully going to net me close to a grand in residual money in the ebay auction.
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I foremost loved that you could bring the XL-1 with you into the airplane cabin as a carry on. Larger cameras we always had to check-in, and many ended up with the lens or the lens-locking mechanism broken by tough cargo handling, even though they were marked as "fragile" and in protective plastic boxes. We almost always brought one or two XL-1s just to make sure that we could shoot the minute we walked off the plane. At one point of time the airline record of breaking cameras got so bad we started to ship them overnight with FedEx, very expensive but at least they arrived in working condition. Then American Airlines started to allow for curbside check-in of licensed broadcast TV-cameras and from there on we always flew AA.
But we're hi-jacking the thread, sorry, not intentional. Just good old memories coming back!