I missed the original post on this one, but here's my experience from travelling to London last week.
There were no differences in security at Heathrow since July (PDML UK). At Oslo airport Gardermoen, they demanded all laptops out of protective cases to be scanned separately, but otherwise no change. Noone, neither at Heathrow or in Oslo, showed the slightest interest in my photo gear. I think the case with the laptops is caused by a seminar held three weeks ago in US, where an airport security specialist demonstrated how easy it is to modify modern laptops into devices that can jam the airplane's communication systems. I read about it in NewScientist two weeks ago. Ironically, the specialist pointed out that the modifications would go unnoticed by the scanning machines, and could hardly be detected manually even by computer specialists. Jostein.
