Re: Airline inspections

[George L Smyth <GLSmyth@xxxxxxx>]

Cor Breukel wrote:
> 
> 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"..

Thanks Cor.  I have a feeling that several of these places would have really
given you a time if you had demanded hand inspection or some form of special
handling.  Remember that the people charged with inspecting your luggage really
don't understand this whole thing, and in their eyes you might be asking them to
compromise the safety of the airline.  Just let the 35mm stuff go through
machine and know that there isn't a problem in the first place.

george

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