Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ian, One last question... or two... When you use lead bags, are you packing these in your carry-on baggage, or your checked baggage? The machines used for each are considerably different. Those machines used for checked baggage can automatically "crank-up-the-volume" in order to see into things. Very very destructive for unprotected film. If protection is even possible. Richard Attenborough (spelling?) found this out the hard way. Months of filming in Papua New Guinea ruined. Do you have any experience here? And, what brand/size/etc. lead bags have you used? If you order film ahead, then use it there, you would have the same problem getting it back unless it were processed there. I know you do all of your own darkroom work so I suspect you bring it back. Of course, you only have half of the trip to worry about, rather than the whole. Many thanks Ian. Also, please keep us informed on how & what you are doing in Bangkok. :-) Jim At 10:46 AM 4/29/99 +0530, you wrote: > >Hello Jim, > > Thanks for the kind words. As far as travelling with sheet film and >airports is concerned, up until the last two years or so I had just been >using lead lined bags and had experienced no problems with damage from the >x-ray machines. I have been a little more worried lately though with the >new machines coming in so have changed tactics a little. Usually if I am >travelling to somewhere that film is readily available I just order ahead >and pick it up when I arrive. If I'm not sure what the supply is like I >just carry what film I need in the pockets of my photo vest and walk >through the metal detector - no problem as there is no metal in the film >box. None of the security types have ever asked to see what is in my >pockets - so far anyway. > >Ian Stanley, > >Bangkok