RE: [Leica] Xray machines

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

The new scanners were for checked baggage, not carry on. By all accounts, if
your suitcases are scanned, even once, there is a good chance your film will
be fried. So carry film on and use the various posts/hints about avoiding
xrays
see:

http://www.agfaphoto.com/news/x_ray.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Noel H.
> Charchuk
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 5:21 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Xray machines
>
>
>
> I don't know if the lead bag is such a good idea. Did we not have some
> messages this summer about ne w baggage scanners being
> installed, that if
> they encounter a dense object (like a lead bag) will just continue to
> increase the power of the scan until they can see through.
> That does not
> seem to be a good thing for the film!!
> Noel Charchuk
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
> >
> > Yup! I got away with it...But as I said, it was all visible
> in the ziplock
> > bag -  no canisters, nada....I may ahve just been
> lucky....I like your lead
> > bag idea, by the way...clever...
> >
> > B. D.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf
> Of Tina Manley
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 3:30 PM
> > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Xray machines
> > >
> > >
> > > At 02:20 PM 10/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >inspection process a breeze, and I don't remember what
> had blown up at
> > > >around the time, but I know that at Heathrow they were
> being particularly
> > > >careful/paranoid. :-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Do you mean they allowed you to have the film
> hand-inspected at Heathrow!
> > > That is one of the few airports in the world where I have
> never managed to
> > > convince them to hand-inspect.  They have always insisted
> that the film go
> > > through the x-ray machine.  I pack my film in ziplock
> bags or Tupperware,
> > > but I also carry lead bags in my carry-on bag so that I
> can stick the film
> > > in them if they refuse to hand-inspect.  The lead bag shows up as
> > > a blob on
> > > the x-ray so they have to open it up and hand-inspect,
> which is what I
> > > asked for in the first place!
> > >
> > > Leically,
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > >
> > > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > > <http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html>
> > >
> <http://www.aperture-photo.com/site/reportage/manley/manleyfra
meset.html>
> > <http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/>
> >
> >
> >
>
>