Re: Purchasing Film for Holiday in the UK

[Joe Wilensky]

I've heard that in many cases, if they see a lead-lined bag, they 
just turn up the power of the (new and more powerful) x-ray scanner 
to see through it, which then subjects the film to more radiation 
than it would have seen if it had gone through without a bag. Is this 
true?

Joe


 >> This is risky.  There is no legal right to hand checking of
 film in the UK. 
What I'm saying is leave the film in the lead bag and let them run it
through the machine. When they can't see through the lead, they'll hand
check it. Works every time for me. Four times at Heathrow in the last
two  months.
If you have a lead-lined bag, this is absolutely the way to do it. You
backpack (or whatever) goes through the machine, they frown, it gets
pulled aside, opened, out comes the bag, gets opened, out come the film
cans - but do they get put through again?


Cheers,
  Cotty