Re: Airport Xrays

[Jesse Goff <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Innocuous looking clear plastic bags are always good for not spooking x-ray security people when having film hand searched.

Jesse


><<<Oh, and if you thought maybe using one of those lead bags would
>help--get this.  These new X-ray machines are  programmed to
>respond to anything mysterious by re-scanning just that area with a
>high-power narrow beam CAT scan which will penetrate anything -- so
>the lead bag GUARANTEES your film is ruined.  The FAA will not give
>out the list of the airports with these new X-rayers for security
>reasons but InVision has a web site which posts the domestic list
>-- no help for the foreign ones, tho.
>So hang on to your film bags, folks.>>>
>
>I don't see how using the lead bag "guarantees" the film will be ruined as
>claimed. Rolls of film stored in the lead bags will still show up as rolls
>of film and do not look mysterious so I don't think they will be rescanned
>(I don't think a machine operator will have any problem identifying film). I
>flew in and out from San Francisco airport, which is one of the first
>airports using this machine, on international flights recently and had about
>200 rolls of 400ISO film stored in the FilmShield bags in both check-in and
>carry-on luggage and nothing happened to the film. I don't claim that the
>machine will never ruin film in lead bags because I don't know enough about
>it but I am not convinced that lead bags will guarantees the death of film.
>TL









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