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Film in the xray machine at the airport
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TSA regulations are only applicable in the US. I’m surprised that airport staff in other countries would pay any attention to them at all, and they are obviously under absolutely no obligation to do so. I think if I was an airport worker in France (or Ireland) and someone handed me a set of US regulations and suggested that I should read them I’d be reaching for the rubber gloves pronto.
Any European airport where I have asked for a hand inspection have refused me. I have had more success in places in Asia, North Africa and so on. But, I would only really be concerned about it if the film is going through more than five or six times or if it’s a very high ISO.
edit: on re-reading my first paragraph there I realise that it’s probably for the best that I don’t work in an airport
I asked in Amman for a hand inspection of my film and nearly got arrested because I wouldn’t put it through the machine :roll: Of course I did in the end but the film turned out fine, even after roughly a dozen scans during my trip.
I love asking just to see what response I’ll get but I’d actually take my chances with scanning my Infrared film rather than having some guy open it up and potentially fog it.
As I’ve said before, I’m still waiting to hear from someone who actually had their film fogged by these machines.
If a US Airline flys into the airport they are bound by any and all TSA regulations as well as some FCC ones.
masteroftherealm wrote:
If a US Airline flys into the airport they are bound by any and all TSA regulations as well as some FCC ones.
I don’t think that’s the case. Non-US airports that operate direct flights to the US are inspected and certified by the TSA to ensure that their security procedures are of a standard deemed appropriate by the TSA, but that does not mean that they adopt TSA regulations and they are certainly in no way legally “bound” by these regulations. A TSA regulations document carries no weight outside the jurisdiction of the TSA.
thefizz wrote:
As I’ve said before, I’m still waiting to hear from someone who actually had their film fogged by these machines.
I did on a trip to Russia back in the 80’s. Loads of moon shapes on the negs and it was only 100 or 200 ISO.
Howaya lads,
I’m still in Egypt. I brought 13 rolls of film, all 1600 ISO. I’ve had my stuff xrayed about 15 times between Dublin airport, Charles de Gaulle and various Egyptian tourist attractions. Not all my film has been xrayed each of those times as I’ve not had it on me, or stuck it in my pockets. Ocassionally they’ve made me put my camera through the machine, but mostly they let me carry it thought, or put it on the table beside the metal detector.
All my film is possibly a little fecked but I’ll wait and see. Hopefully I’ll get some pictures worth printing anyway, some might even be in focus.
I’ll be sticking up a few pictures when I get back anyway.
Cheers for the replies,
Alan
Got my 13 rolls back from Gunns today.
No evidence whatsoever of any xray damage. I’m delighted, especially after they were xrayed so many times.
Pictures will be uploaded for critique at some stage.
Sheldon wrote:
thefizz wrote:
As I’ve said before, I’m still waiting to hear from someone who actually had their film fogged by these machines.
I did on a trip to Russia back in the 80’s. Loads of moon shapes on the negs and it was only 100 or 200 ISO.
80’s :roll:
thefizz wrote:
80’s :roll:
You never did say “recently” :lol: and besides It was dam hard to go to Russia in 1981 not to mention sneeking pictures. You were not allowed to take street scenes, tall buildings, bridges, the underground etc for fear that you were a cold war spy!
When we were bringing in Konica products the 3200ISO colour neg film was returned to us for explanations of ghost spots and it was generally accepted as X ray damage.
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