Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/30
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>Doug and Bill are right about film and traveling in the current climate.
>On a recent and ill-fated trip to Guatemala(I was in a group at Tikal that
>became hostages for two and a half days, and consequently had my trip badly
>truncated) , I tried to have security manually check my film which was in
>see-through ziploc bags. It's not that they refused to do it. It's that
>they were going to make me pay... I was told to move over to the side and
>they would check each roll... they would have to open each box of film and
>manually check it and the process would take 30 minutes to an hour -
>whenever they had a chance to do it. I agree... Film is film... if it's
>in a sealed box what else is it going to be. Anyway, since I wasn't
>traveling with anything faster than ISO 400, I decided it wasn't worth the
>bother. However, I do know that the X-Ray machines are getting stronger...
>I had a roll I shot in my IIIB fogged, and some really nice shots were
>ruined as a result.
>
>So, it's really a problem and I don't know how to deal with it.
I've said it before: I roll my own in plastic cannisters and put them
in deep pockets, walk through the metal detector -- making sure I
have NO metal anywhere else --- involves removing my boots and belt
- -- and presto onto the plane.
Cheers
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Alastair Firkin
http://www.afirkin.com
http://www.familyofman2.com
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