If you'd fill your bag with batteries that's one thing but having a camera and three spare batteries to the same camera is another. They may ask you to show that the batteries fit the camera and that they work, so keep them charged, but there is no need for panic. Everything contains batteries today, even my BT headset, GPS navigator and whatnot.
Exactly. If they'd prohibit all LiIon batteries, you'd end up leaving all of your battery operated equipment off board. Not just cameras.
Exactly, even all those stuff we buy on eBay that come with lithium batteries get delivered by Australia Post. They can delivery the stuff to you but if you want to send it back, they will not take it. Weird.
Never tried them before I will have to give it a try, also I think their office is quite a driving distance from me. That lithium thing reminds me of: You are not allowed to use your mobile phone on the plane, it will interfere with the navigation and the plane might crash, but guess what? Now on a few airlines here, you can use your phone, no problem, it will not interfere and will not crash the plane and the planes have not changed much during the past years, it was all BS.
SVPhotography, correct and to make things even easier in Australia, today CASA (Civil Aviation Safety Authority - Australia's equivalent of the FAA) have released an App for both iPhone/iPad and Android that allows you to check what type of Dangerous Goods you have and whether you can carry it onboard or as checked baggage. This also follows the IATA Table 2.3.A.
My question was actually a bit rhetorical. The reason I posted it was that we all know it doesn't apply to in-device batteries in cameras, phones and laptops etc. The thing with Lithium ion batteries is that under a certain size, as Jabs767 points out in his post, it doesn't apply to and if they are in a device it does not apply either. I am sure you can post your D800 with battery in situ, or with a battery cap on the battery and taped up so that the cap doesn't come off, which if it did come off, could therefore be open to short circuit and cause a fire.
