Re: [Leica] Interesting X-Ray report

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>]

Sal, any insight on how I can be desiginated a Pro? I amgoing to London in May
and on to Paris.  I would really prefer to not have my Tri X 400 x rayed.

"Sal DiMarco,Jr." wrote:

> 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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