Re: [Leica] X-raying of film by overnight couriers

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

No your not.
Also note that when you get into Nairobi Airport ,all you,re luggage will
have to go thru the scanner.
It is right next to the terminals entrance door.
They will do a hand check of your film and camera however.
best regards
simon jessurun amsterdam the netherlands
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Cc: <leica_reflex_forum@topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] X-raying of film by overnight couriers


> > To lighten my load when travelling to Hawaii in October, I'm thinking of
> > overnighting all my unexposed film to the place I'll be staying at. Last
> > year I travelled to Hawaii on 10/7, the day we starting bombing
> > Afghanistan, and no one at the gate was in a mood to give me the legally
> > required hand check of film when I asked for it. (I'm a lawyer but know
> > when not to press the issue.) My ISO 100, 400 and 800 films went through
> > with no ill effects, but I'd rather not chance it again, especially
> > since I plan on taking some 1600 stock.
>
> Jeffery,
> I'm in the same situation. I'm leaving for Harare, Zimbabwe on Tuesday,
> passing through Amsterdam and Nairobi. So far, I haven't heard of any
> problems taking hand-baggage through. My local airport now warns that
> unprocessed film in _check-in_ baggage will be ruined. Many airports have
> moved over to another system since last year and it does clobbered film.
> But once again ... this is in baggage that has been checked in, not
> hand-baggage.
>
> My guess is that _all_ freight-services x-ray the packages much the same
> way the airlines do with checkin baggage. But then again ... we do order
> film post-order, so I'm probably wrong.
>
> Daniel
>
>
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