Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill Saterfield writes: > This is a problem that really needs to be addressed. My Leica Viewfinder > that just came mentions it in the presidents message. All the airports > refuse to do it. Really creates a problem. I do not know why they pick > on photographers so much. Can you hide a bomb in film? They seem to > think you can. Certainly a person trying to get something on a plane > would not ask for a hand check. FAA regulations allow it. Some security > people can not think between the numbers or out of the box. Why don't > we all email our congressmen? Well, what I have encountered in the past few months while checking in at airports and even worse, the State Department, The Alcohol Tobacco Firearms Dept (ATF) and Ronald Reagan Building in Wash, Dc is that I would always get an order from the low-level security guard that all my camera gear would have to go through the scanner, I politely ask for a hand check and the guard would say no, at this point I demand his/her supervisor and every time the supervisor has given me the hand check. sl > > doug kim wrote: >> >>hello all, >> >>i've just had my first case of x-ray fog on some rolls of superia 1600. >> >>i shoot a lot of high speed stuff, mainly TMZ, and travel a lot. i've been >>carrying the high speed film in a lead bag in my carry on luggage but have >>been recently told that if the security can't see through it, they'll just >>increase the power. >> >>and i've also been recently told the checked-in luggage is getting bathed in >>higher amounts so its not safe either. >> >>when i've gone through the security check points with my film out of the >>canisters in zip lock bags, i'm told that i still have to have the bag >>scanned even though everyone can see its just film. >> >>i know that film at ISO 400 is fairly safe from airport x-ray scans but what >>the hell do i do with all my TMZ in this new climate? >> >>doug kim >> >>http://www.ricecracker.net/ >> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html