Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i would love to be able to travel and buy film wherever i land, but i couldn't find any b&w film sellers in hanoi, much less something as exotic as TMZ. even in seoul and beijing, you have to expend a bit of energy to find a film besides kodak gold. doug On 7/26/02 9:06 AM, "Bill Satterfield" <cwsat@istate.net> wrote: > Thanks Ted. I now see and appreciate their efforts. I guess the FAA > needs to change their directive on allowing a hand check. > > Ted Grant wrote: > >> Bill Satterfield wrote: >> >>>> I do not know why they pick >>>> >>> on photographers so much. Can you hide a bomb in film? They seem to >>> think you can. <<<, >>> >> >> Hi Bill, >> Sorry to tell you this but yes they can!!!! And enough packed in one film >> cannister.. obviously without the film to blow a very damaging hole in an >> airplane. If not a hole enough to bring the plane down period! >> >> Ths packing film cannisters with explosive is an old trick and caused major >> concern prior to the '92 Barcelona Summer Olympics. And if you think film >> scanning is a problem in airports these days, hell you should've been in >> Barcelona where if you went into any venue and including the Main Press >> Centre, everything was scanned as many times as you entered any site. >> >> If you went in the MPC and forgot something and had to return immediately as >> you went out the door.... everything went through again! And you, your gear >> bag, and film could go through scanners a half dozern times in one day.... >> every day . And at no time did anyone experience "scanner fogging!" >> >> Didn't we on this list within the past three weeks go through this whole >> hand baggage scanning business where many of us who've travelled for years >> have never experienced film fogging? And those traveling, me included >> several occasions during the past 10 months have not seen any effects from >> hand luggage scans. And after 6-7 times on one trip. >> >> At worse the film-fly thing is a big pain in the ass and there's any number >> of ways around it: >> >> Just live with it. >> go early to the airport and live with it >> buy film wherever you go and live with it. >> buy film wherever you go and soup it on location and live with it >> Stop whining, get on with the security thing and .....live! >> Maybe! >> >> ted >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html