Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/27
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LUGgers; LEGgers & LRFer,
This interesting little item about airport X-Rays showed up on the
Professional Photographer Newsletter of British Journal of Photography
E-mail list.
I thought some of you would find in interesting.
Happy Snaps,
Sal
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Airport X-ray effects on film
After 18 months of exhaustive efforts, the British Photographers' Liaison
Committee (BPLC) issued its latest assessment of the effect on photographic
films of X-ray baggage screening equipment installed at
British Airports Authority (BAA) airports.
Tests reveal that most routine films that are exposed by average users can
safely be X-rayed by current BAA hand baggage inspection equipment.
Conversely, the report finds that all film types can be severely degraded by
hold-baggage inspection systems, and that the damage caused will be obvious
even to the least discerning users. BPLC therefore recommends that
unprocessed film, whether exposed or not, should never
be stored in hold-baggage.
The BPLC adds that its data showed that the situation is more complex in
detail, and that some films may exhibit a very slight, but detectable,
change after realistic levels of hand-baggage X-ray inspection. In view of
this, BPLC and BAA have agreed that professional photographers traveling
abroad on assignment will be granted hand-searches of their unprocessed
film.
(Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP)
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News review - February 2000
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