Except you can pay several times as much as I do buying from B&H in New
York. Before I'd buy locally, I'd use Fed Ex or UPS.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To: <carlson@olypen.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:45 AM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: X rays was Digital PIC
> If you are visiting a civilized part of the world, just buy and develop
all
> film locally; then you don't risk ruining anything.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Meier" <robert_meier_photo@yahoo.com>
> To: <anthony@atkielski.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 09:34
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: X rays was Digital PIC
>
>
> Carlson,
>
> I am not sure what kind of information you are looking for. Personally,
> I have had damaged film even when it did go through x-ray machines for
> carry-ons 5-6 times (ISO25-200). As I said such damage would be hard to
> detect as the damage is low and evenly distributed.
> In contrast to you I never had any problems to get my film hand checked
> even after 9/11. What I do is putting all my film in zip lock bags and
> include a 1600 film. I then pull out the zip lock bags out of my camera
> backpack and hand it over. Usualy they ask if I have film faster then
> 800. I then say yes and they check it by hand. If they are still
> resistent saying it is safe I explain that I have to go through many
> x-rays which will accumulate damage. Therfore, I would appreciate if
> they could check it by hand. Never had a problem. Some Asian countries
> are more strict (from my limited exprience Thailand and Malysia but not
> Korea and Japan) and won't check film by hand. With multiple flights
> from one country to the other and inland flights you easily get 5 or
> more exposures. As I said I haven't detected any damages yet. I have
> not done any tests for that though.
> The new x-ray machines for check-in lugage are a different story,
> though. They use much higher x-ray dosages. I have seen extensive test
> for scanners of one of the two campanies that produce such scanners.
> These scanners use a regualar x-ray machine (similar to the ones for
> carry-on) to analyze the lugage. Based on that analysis they do a CT
> scan at certain positions of the lugage. If a film happens to be there
> it will be damaged where it is hit. Since the x-ray is a fan-beam the
> exposure is localized and therefore can be distinguished even better
> then if it were exposed equally.
> Now I heard and read that earlier scanners of the other company did not
> use the initial low dosage scan but scanned the whole bag with a high
> dosage which can be increased if necessary. Contrary to some belives
> that dosage can not be increased arbitrarly. Anyway, for these scanners
> the chances of damage are very high and devasting. I have not seen or
> done any test with these scanners, though.
> Anyway, the point is don't put unexposed film in check-in luggage. A
> few exposures from scanners for carry-on lugage seems not to damage
> film in my experience. At least not for low ISO film. If you need
> higher ISO films you might consider buying it on location.
>
> Rob
>
> --- Carlson <carlson@olypen.com> wrote:
> > Rob, that's unsettling news. I've been universally unable to get
> > hand
> > checks since Sept 11th. Do you have any more information and would
> > you mind
> > sharing your source? The x-ray inspections of my carry-on lugage
> > including
> > in and out of Tokyo twice and in and out of Bangkok and in and out of
> > Seattle ( yes they x-ray your film when leaving the terminal from
> > international flights from SeaTac.) all during one trip to Thailand
> > did not
> > seem to damage my ISO 100 film.
> > Regards, Ron Carlson
>
>
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