Re: Re: Airline XRAYS!!!!

["Gaetano \"Kiodo\" Chiodini" <kiodo@xxxxxxx>]

At 17.38 16/04/98 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Christoph Held wrote: 
>> "Tom none Jarana" <oh.yes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> > X-Ray machines at many major airports in Asia and Europe, are far
worse.  They simply
>> > add so much fog that the contrast is reduced to flat and dull. This is
especially
>> > noticable with black and white films.  
>
>Are about starting an urban myth, or are you talking about a different
>europe, which I do not know?

I agree with Helmut: I actually work in Bologna airport, in northern Italy,
since 1982, and I can tell you about our local police routine: a filmsafe
xray scanner for hand baggage, nothing for registered bags. Only on special
airline request, or for flights directed to particulary "hot" zones (and
usually for a limited time slot, e.g. 3months) police scans registered
luggage. For instance, during the gulf war all the flights directed to NATO
countries received this particular treatment. During an alarm, police can
obviously scan baggage directed to wichever destination, inside or outside
Italy. I never had a passenger complaint about films fogging. Aniway, this
only applies to BLQ airport... when I travel, I use lead bags for films I
can't take in my handbaggage.
  
>Everyone knows that film should by stored in the hand luggage to
>prevent fogging, because the x-ray equipment which is used for this
>inspecton does not harm films. I haven't had any problems with fast
>film (Agfacolor 1000, Ektachrome 1600 and T-Max 3200) which have
>been x-rayed up to four times.
>
>> Plus the routine control if the cameras work.

Never seen something like that.

>> BTW did 
>> anyone get problems with an EOS RS/RT which does not have mirror 
>> blackout nor slap? :-))
>
>No, you also get no problems with finder cameras.
> 
>> > All of these machines are labeled "film safe",
>> > some of these machines are so high powered that they destroy light
sensing cells
>> > in light meters and flashes with just one pass. 

Maybe we have found the origin of skin cancer and the hole in the ozone!!!
   :-)))
How could a flash be affected by an X-ray?
>
>Dream on!
> 
>

Gaetano "Kiodo" Chiodini
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051873284
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