Re: FYI on photography

[Mark de Saint Sauveur le Vicomte <marks@verinet.com>]

Poster: Mark de Saint Sauveur le Vicomte <marks@verinet.com>


I do a lot of travel, and a fair amount of photography.  It is not uncommon
for one of my trips to take me through a dozen airports in half a dozen
different countries.  A technique that I use
which seems to work well is this:

I place all film in a plastic ziplock baggie (transparent) none of it in the
little black cases that kodak provides.  This makes it very easy to see
exactly what it is.

I drop it in the little basket for keys and such at the airport security
stations.

I also tend to put all of my keys, change etc in my briefcase, so usually
the film is the only thing that the security guard has to look at.

There is rarely a comment, and the film is not X-rayed at all.  Once in a
while, the guard will insist on x-raying the film in the little machine for
carry-ons, but these are not nearly as strong as the machine mentioned below.  

In service to the Dream, I am Lord Mark


>> From: Orendil@aol.com
>> To: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
>> Subject: FYI on photography
>> Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 12:28 PM
>> 
>> 
>> Poster: Orendil@aol.com
>> 
>> Greetings to all..........
>> 
>> I'm passing along a warning that was included in a newsletter from one of
>my
>> other associations. They cite an article in the June Popular Photography.
>> 
>> A new generation of x-ray machines is being emplaced at airports to scan
>> checked baggage.  These machines have a high power setting that can/will
>be
>> used when something of a suspicious nature is seen. The warning is that
>this
>> setting WILL damage undeveloped film in the luggage - even if protected
>in a
>> lead-lined bag. The article they cite supposedly referes to a BBC team
>that
>> lost 5 weeks of film from a shoot in New Guinea.
>> 
>> This equipment is only for use on checked baggage....so everyone is being
>> advised to transport their undeveloped film in their carry-on luggage
>only. 
>> 
>> I would really hate to hear of someone making that 'once in a life time'
>trip
>> to some museum in Europe, only to lose all the documentation they had so
>> diligently put together.
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