Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery that is a very unpleasant experience. I think that the worst part, for an innocent photographer, is that any protest at all on your part at the time will likely only guarantee excessive heavy handed treatment of your bag. Quite maddening. We all understand the need for the inspections but given that the swabbing for explosives residue was carried out, the additional xraying seems very unreasonable. This sort of horror story makes me consider never passing film through an airport any more. Travelling now I'm trying to have film processed in situ. Bw makes that much harder of course. Maybe can be mailed to yourself? I am anecdotally convinced that Leica bodies are much more prominent on the carry on baggage scanners, due to the high metal content. I've watched my own on the scren, with the belt reversed so that they can take another look. Commiserations Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeffery Smith Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 04:33 To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: RE: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot Goon is pretty accurate. When the Domke bag was scanned, a short, pudgy uniformed lady yelled out "I NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!!!" which got the attention of several uniformed men. They yanked both of my bags. The suitcase, which had all of my unexposed film in it, was tested for explosives through swabbing it all over and putting the swabs in some sort of machine. I stood next to it but was told not to move, not to touch the bag, and not to touch the table. The Domke bag, which apparently caused the major panic, was hustled out of sight and then returned. I'm going to shoot test images of the house across the street with one of the 40+ rolls of unexposed film. They may not have totally cooked those since that bag only went through the first scanner. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:03 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot Sounds really bad, Jeffery. I would have never allowed them to take my carry-on baggage out of my sight. But there's not much you can do about it when a goon gets in the mood. Daniel Jeffery Smith wrote: > Well, I decided to take a chance and use film in Santa Fe at the LHSA > spring shoot. When I left New Orleans, my camera bag caused no > commotion at New Orleans airport. When leaving Santa Fe, they pulled > both of my bags off of the conveyor belt and took them a short > distance away. I finally got them back about 15 minutes later. No > problem, I thought. After all, most of the film is 100 ISO. > > I just developed six rolls in fresh developer (prescysol) and PF > alkaline fixer. All five rolls from Santa Fe are fogged beyond > recognition. The sixth roll (from before my trip) is fine. I don't > know what they did to my bag in Santa Fe, but all rolls are very low > contrast mud. > > That is it for film + airports for me. From now on, I will only travel > with digital cameras. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > http://400tx.blogspot.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information