Well, I usually leave my film in the hand luggage and let it get
scanned, and have never had any problems with either Fuji Sensia 100 or
Ilford XP-2. Couple of weekends ago I flew out of Gatwick with some
3200 and 1600 film, and requested hand searching - no probs, they do a
little swab test and analyse it on the spot, adds a few minutes to your
time at security but no major hassle. I am not sure whether it's a
right to request a hand search but they were happy enough to oblige.
Maybe I was just somehow extremely, extremely lucky, but I once had a
roll of HG1600 which I carried with me on several plane journeys without
ever getting round to using it. It travelled with me on journeys from
London-Lusaka, Lilongwe-London, London-Madrid, Madrid-La Palma, La
Palma-London, London-Osaka, Osaka-Sydney, Sydney-Tokyo, Tokyo-London,
London-Oslo, Oslo-London and finally London-Beijing before I finally got
around to using it in Russia. I think even on the first couple of
flights I left in in the hold luggage. I bought it in May 2001 and
actually used it in August 2002, and it didn't suffer at all from its
mistreatment. Here's a shot from the roll:
http://www.worldtraveller.f9.co.uk/temp/siberianstorm.jpg
Yes, that's lightning and not damage from being x-rayed :)
Roger
bdcolen wrote:
Nope. But they will FRY film! In the U.S. you have a right to
request/demand hand inspection of photo equipment and film. But I think
that in the U.K. and many other nations you do not have that right.
Since 9/11/01 I've adopted the practice of FedExing my film to any place
I have to fly to do a job, and then FedEx the exposed film from there to
the lab that does my developing.
Best
B. D.
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of christian
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:13 AM
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Subject: [OM] (new topic?) could not Airport X-rays dammage cameras ?
Hi all,
With the increase of the power of X-rays to check luggages
and sometimes cameras, would not the chips and programs of
all these new film or digital cameras be dammaged ?
Christian
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