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Subject: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue May 1 06:57:27 2007

If it was easier to mail a package, I would have done just that. But the
same homeland security concerns make mailing a package a much bigger ordeal
than it was 10 years ago. The suggestion that I'm going to make to the LHSA
is that they perhaps find some *good* labs in town that will develop film in
2 hours, and some stores near the hotel that sell film. Then the members can
buy film after they arrive and drop it off before they leave. Better yet, if
there are labs that will develop the film and mail the negs/slides to us,
that would be the best of all worlds.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of G
Hopkinson
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:14 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot


Jeffery that is a very unpleasant experience. I think that the worst part,
for an innocent photographer, is that any protest at all on your part at the
time will likely only guarantee excessive heavy handed treatment of your
bag. Quite maddening. We all understand the need for the inspections but
given that the swabbing for explosives residue was carried out, the
additional xraying seems very unreasonable. This sort of horror story makes
me consider never passing film through an airport any more. Travelling now
I'm trying to have film processed in situ. Bw makes that much harder of
course. Maybe can be mailed to yourself? I am anecdotally convinced that
Leica bodies are much more prominent on the carry on baggage scanners, due
to the high metal content. I've watched my own on the scren, with the belt
reversed so that they can take another look.

Commiserations
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2007 04:33
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot

Goon is pretty accurate. When the Domke bag was scanned, a short, pudgy
uniformed lady yelled out "I NEED SOME HELP OVER HERE!!!" which got the
attention of several uniformed men. They yanked both of my bags. The
suitcase, which had all of my unexposed film in it, was tested for
explosives through swabbing it all over and putting the swabs in some sort
of machine. I stood next to it but was told not to move, not to touch the
bag, and not to touch the table. The Domke bag, which apparently caused the
major panic, was hustled out of sight and then returned. I'm going to shoot
test images of the house across the street with one of the 40+ rolls of
unexposed film. They may not have totally cooked those since that bag only
went through the first scanner.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:03 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Film from the Santa Fe spring shoot


Sounds really bad, Jeffery.

I would have never allowed them to take my carry-on baggage out of my 
sight. But there's not much you can do about it when a goon gets in the 
mood.

Daniel


Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Well, I decided to take a chance and use film in Santa Fe at the LHSA
> spring shoot. When I left New Orleans, my camera bag caused no 
> commotion at New Orleans airport. When leaving Santa Fe, they pulled 
> both of my bags off of the conveyor belt and took them a short 
> distance away. I finally got them back about 15 minutes later. No 
> problem, I thought. After all, most of the film is 100 ISO.
> 
> I just developed six rolls in fresh developer (prescysol) and PF
> alkaline fixer. All five rolls from Santa Fe are fogged beyond 
> recognition. The sixth roll (from before my trip) is fine. I don't 
> know what they did to my bag in Santa Fe, but all rolls are very low 
> contrast mud.
> 
> That is it for film + airports for me. From now on, I will only travel
> with digital cameras.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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