RE: [Leica] Airport X-ray Test

[Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>]

Even though they cannot turn up the power, isn't there the question of
exposure duration?  Does the machine zap the object once, or is the x-ray on
continuously?  If they fiddle with the adustments on the machine, is the
exposure duration longer?

- -----Original Message-----
From: Tina Manley [mailto:images@InfoAve.Net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 12:09 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Airport X-ray Test


At 11:24 AM 8/4/99 -0700, you wrote:

>We had been told here in the past that with those bags those airport 
>people just
>crank up the machine until the machine can see through the bag. But your
>experience seems to negate that!
>Mark Rabiner


Right, Mark.  For checked baggage it is possible to crank up the power, but 
with the carry-on machines it is not.  The inspectors can adjust their 
computer screens to try to see more clearly, but they cannot turn up the 
power.  Sometimes they will try to send the bag back through again if they 
can't see through it the first time.  Then I tell them why they can't see 
through the lead-lined bags and they inspect by hand.

Leically,

Tina
Tina Manley
http://www.tinamanley.com