Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]le 16.09.2001 18:06, Ted Grant à tedgrant@home.com a écrit : > Tarek Charara wrote: >>>>> Does anybody have any experience with those leadbags for film??<< > > Hi Tarek, > Save your money they are a waste of money, buy film instead. > > If you are carrying film in hand baggage take all your film out of the boxes > and canisters, throw them into clear ziplock freezer bags and when you get > to the security scanners take the bags film and hand them to security for > hand check. > > 99.99% of the time they'll look it over and pass it un-scanned to the other > side. Then again! No matter how much discussion and upsettedness you > get........ you are wasting your time, just let it go and it'll be fine ! > > As far as lead bags in checked bags forget it bigtime, as all that happens > is one of two things: > > The dosage is increased until the scanner can see what's inside... "end of > film!" Or you are politely asked in a quiet room to open your bags and show > the security folks what's in the bags.Again more wasted time of yours and > theirs! > > And quite frankly at the moment, I think we could all be beating our key > boards and wasting time until after the security folks have had a few weeks > to shake down whatever new regulations are being out in place or will be. > > Just don't think it's ever going back to what we always considered "normal!" > ted > > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Thank you for all the info... the only problem I had with leadbags so far was with TMZ. Some strage, spotlike fogging... Anyway I'll give the ZIPlock bags and handchecking a try on my next few airtrips... Tarek - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html