Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]snip >Second, let me add a couple of data points to the airport X-ray >arena. As I've always done in recent years, I took all my film out >of the plastic canisters and put it in zip-lock plastic bags. more snip >There seems to be a case of "ISO inflation" going around airports. >Last February, the Sea-Tac people said that ISO 1000 film would be >fine, but all it took was one roll of 800 film among my mostly 400 >rolls to get a hand inspection at both Sea-Tac and Los Angeles >(LAX). This time, I was told that up to 1600 film would be >perfectly safe. I'm not sure if someone has done some testing or >that they've simply upped the numbers to cut down the number of hand >inspection requests. Seems it would be a good idea to carry a few 3200 films, just for argument's sake - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html