Re: Airline inspections

[Cor Breukel <cor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, George L Smyth wrote:

> With all of the clever and esoteric plans to avoid x-rays from touching our
> film, I'm wondering if anyone has ever experienced fogging due to this within
> the US, Canada, or UK.  Tests have shown that exposing the film (under EI 1000)
> a dozen times by these machines (carry-on) yield no fogging.  It appears that
> some may be going through a lot of trouble to solve something that is not a
> problem.


...I can only second this: (as I've told before..) I've been carring HIE
through Xray maschines of Mexico, Guatamala, India, Jordan, Syria,
Ukraine, Egypt and a couple of EU countries: no effect whatsoever. I did
carry it as hand-luggage, and sometimes upto 6 "zaps"..




> 

Cor Breukel

http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
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http://ruly70.medfac.leidenuniv.nl/~cor/ir-gallery.html


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