Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] film and travel
From: doug kim <yup@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:34:34 -0700

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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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