Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, I've carried it through multiple scans without any issues, ISO 400 films. I have never taken Delta 3200 through an x-ray scan. It's not worth the risk. I didn't take any particular precautions. Maybe the metalic wrappers around all of these (400TX, HP5+ and APX400 while it lasted) helped. I've heard (but we have ALL heard so much about these things) that if you try and protect it with heavy lead bags etc, that it just results in the operator jacking up the juice to try and get through to the contents. Defeats its purpose. Those who use lead bags and say they never had problems, implying that the lead bag is protecting them, probably would not have had problems anyway. The hand-baggage check is not much of a problem. Never has been. The check-in baggage really gets a jolt. Even the local airport here warns against that. Daniel On 2/18/07, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote: > Next month I am going for a week to Val d'Isere. Because I need to > travel light, taking the DSLR outfit is out of the question, so instead > I will be taking the Ricoh GRD and the Bronica rangefinder outfit--it > all fits in the Domke 803 shoulder bag. > > I will be flying from Amsterdam to Geneva. I have never before flown > carrying medium format film, but I remember reading somewhere that it is > more prone to fogging from the hand luggage x-rays because the film is > not enclosed in a metal canister, as is the case with 35mm film. I have > flown with 35mm on many occasions, including Neopan 1600, and have never > seen any sign of fogging, even after 4-6 passes through x-ray machines. > The MF film I will be taking will be no faster than 400. Should I be > taking any special precautions other than the obvious one of not putting > the film in checked baggage? > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > Opportunistic Image Acquisition > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu > Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS! > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >