Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/15
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- --- Mike Durling <> wrote:
> Flying out of Las Vegas last week on impulse I asked for
> hand check on my
> one roll of Tmax-3200. She had no idea what I was
> talking about and yelled
> SUPERVISOR! When that person arrived he asked me to walk
> through the
> magnetometer with it, it didn't set it off, and then
> swabbed it for
> explosives while carefully showing the woman how to
> inspect it. I heard him
> tell her to check that there was actually film coming out
> the light trap.
> Good thing it was an unused roll since I normally wind
> the film all the way
> in.
>
> Mike D
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Assuming the person in charge has reasonable
intelligence, an exposed roll could be verified by turning
the spool and feeling the film turn inside. Of course it
would still be possible to make a mini-b*mb with that
characteristic, but the paranoia has to stop somewhere.
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