Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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