Re: UK Cheaper than US?

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 23 Mar 00 at 14:28, Andy Finney wrote:

> Incidentally, does anyone know of any published figures about the 
> long-term and cumulative effect of the fogging effect? I don't 
> believe it when the notice says there is no effect on films below 
> 3200 ISO/ASA; I am more inclined to believe it when they say there is 
> no 'noticeable' effect.

Natural/background radiation at such high altitudes is probably a 
mangnitude larger than X-ray fogging....
 
> On the other hand, when I worked at the BBC I saw reported in the 
> in-house magazine the sad tale of the documentary producer who (stop 
> me if you've heard this one) hacked his way through dense 
> impenetrable jungle to film a 'lost' tribe in the Amazon who had said 
> they would talk to the outside world only once ... and this was it. 
> Days of painstaking filming later the crew lugged their canisters of 
> 16mm Eastmancolour though hell and high water ... and back to the UK. 
> You guessed it: the film was fogged almost beyond redemption as a 
> result of a rather over-excited x-ray machine in South America.

Actually, it had nothing to do with South-America or any other bizar 
antique X-ray machine, it was the first serious incident with the 
(until then) unknown high-power check-in scanners (Invision)....the 
film was a) send as check-in luggage, and b) contrary to loads of 
warnings on the luggage, and reassurance from the luggage-handler 
(flight company), still send through this new scanner.

More about this X-ray stuff can be found on my homepage:

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm


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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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