Re: [Leica] Re:[leica] Recent Airport Experience with Bulk film

["animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>]

Hi i found this Kodak publication with some examples.
best regards
simon jessurun
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From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:[leica] Recent Airport Experience with Bulk film


> Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics has concerns: ?
> >>Subject: [Leica] Re:[leica] Recent Airport Experience with Bulk film<<<<
>
> Sorrry Christopher I've been flying way to long over the years all over
the
> world in and out of some of the damndest places with exposed and
un-exposed
> film ( 200 rolls or more at times) hand bag zapped checked a zillion
times,
> yep and rated at ASA 800 and have never ever had film effected any time.
Let
> alone some new digi gear recently acquired!
>
> Actually not too long ago some 1600 went through before I remembered it
was
> in the bag and you know what?  Surprise not a mark! Yep maybe I was lucky,
> however just a small point that hand bag zapping isn't the big bad evil
some
> folks believe it is!
>
> As someone else posted "show us!" So please look at it this way.... "Show
us
> the proof and make us believers." I'm not much at book and theory stuff as
> that's written by book people and not travelling people with actual
> experience. I would appreciate proof from you any time you have a moment
and
> please leave the paranoia about hand checked film BS at home! Thanks.
>
> So Chris old buddy over to you and make some of us beleievers. Not only
> that, it will avoid some of the nervous nellie lads getting twitchy butts
> about their gear the next time they travel. Thanks.
>
> More Chris stuff:
> > What I would do differently (for bulk loaders only):
> > 1) Keep plastic canisters in my pockets since they won't register on the
> metal detector.<<
>
> hell son you must have really really big pockets to carry a couple hundred
> rolls!
>
> > 2)  Buy a bunch of Dx coded ASA 3200 bulk loading cans instead of
generic
> or worse, reused cans from the 1 hour photo store.  The inspectors will
look
> at your film and see it says ASA 3200, if your cans do not indicate the
ASA
> in some official looking way, your out of luck.<<<
>
> Cool idea thanks for giving that one to the bad guys! idiot.
>
> > As far as equipment is concerned no one will believe you that the X-Rays
> will degrade electronics.<
>
> Of coure they wont beleive you, they know better than some amateur
traveller
> .
>
> > I also noticed at customs in the US that Non-Citizens had all their
> luggage X-Rayed upon arrival.  All in all my gear was X-Rayed once out of
a
> possible 3 times.  Somewhat of a victory.<<<
>
> Not worth commenting on as they did that in the USSR also!
>
> > PS don't put any film or electronic equipment in your checked luggage.
> All US airports have modified CAT scan units which will fog all film and
> damage digital displays.<<<
>
> Now that's hardly a new revelation as we've been talking about that on ths
> list and others for the past few years since the big CAT units were being
> installed. Actually KODAK put out an advisory about this very thing, 3? 4?
> years ago. Not to forget most photo magazines carried articles about
packing
> film in checked baggage. Hello, where were you?
>
> Thanks for the insight Chris and if I sound a bit ripping I am because
it's
> this kind of false paranoia about hand baggage that starts useless rumours
> amoung good folks who don't travel very much.
>
> Ted
>
> PS: Actually you are the kind of photographer who pisses off the security
> guys so the next photographer going through who has no worries and quite
> prepared to waltz right along has everything checked so severely for no
> reason other than, "here's one of those damn photographers lets roast
him!"
> Or her. Thanks a bunch! Have a nice next flight!
>
>
>
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