Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html