Thomas Heide Clausen wrote:
> Not contradicting anything either, but just a word of warning.
>
> I went through London Gatwick with Provia 400 exposed at 800 in the
> carry-on a few weeks back. 4 rolls went through the carry-on x-ray,
> and were ruined, the one roll I kept in my pant-pocket (which then
> didn't get x-ray) was fine. The film came out of the same pack and
> had been stored and exposed identically.
>
> So whatever they say, don't assume that the x-ray will not damage
> your film on carry-on.
Oh ugh. Ick. In the US, there are signs explaining that the
machines will not damage film up to 800 -- or is it 1000? --
speed. I've always been suspicious of the upper end of that,
but fortunately a) I almost never fly, and b) in the US we
can get hand-inspection. (The last time I flew, I held up a
bag of film and said, "I've got 6400 ASA and infrared in here;
do you want me to separate out the high-speed stuff?" and the
inspector said, "Okay, pass it over here," and just hand-checked
the whole bag (fortunately not opening the IR cannister).)
This happened with a single pass through the machine? Ouch.
When you say "Provia 400 exposed at 800", is that exact? It
wasn't "pushed 'one stop' but that really makes it 1000" or
something like that, was it? 'Cause it seems they'd be
ruining everyone's Kodak MAX and People Would Have Noticed
by now. Or maybe lots of people have noticed, but the
authorities just don't care? (I'm also guessing that your
machines are set a bit more poweful than ours.)
> It's not a first-time experience either, so I had asked (and was
> refused) a hand-check by the quite rude security staff....
Bleah.
-- Glenn
