Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/14

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Subject: Subject: RE: [Leica] Flying with film
From: Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 20:55:48 -0700

On my February trip from Seattle to southern California (flying into Orange 
County/John Wayne, returning from LAX), I had a few rolls of 400-speed film 
in a ziplock bag.  I also threw in a couple of rolls of 800, because I'd 
heard that they were only honoring hand-inspection requests if you had 800 
film.  It turned out the security people had been told that only 1000 speed 
and higher might be affected.  But they did hand inspect mine when I said, 
"but 800 is almost 1000, only a third of a stop difference."  I'm sure they 
had no idea what a third of a stop was, but it sounded small enough to 
convince them.

On the other hand, my camera went through X-ray on each trip, with 400 film 
in it.  No difference between rolls #1 and #3, which went through, and roll 
#2, which didn't.

Now, they also made me take off my belt and my shoes in Seattle, but that's 
another story.  It's interesting to be beltless, shoeless, an get frisked, 
with a couple of crew-cut guys in camoflage outfits and M-16s looking on. . .

We can get upset about it, or we can call it comic relief.  But my 
sympathies to the pros who have to carry large amounts of film.

- --Peter Klein
Seattle, WA


At 06:51 PM 4/14/02 -0700, "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>

>More appealing? More like less appalling. I'm going to Seattle next week
>and am not even bothering to take a camera.
>
>- -----Original Message-----
>On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
>Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 4:27 PM
>
>Went through security Friday at Boston's infamous Logan Airport - with
>70 rolls of film, all removed from their little containers, all in
>ziplock bags.


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