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| Airport
x-ray machines can damage
your film by fogging |
New X-ray inspection
units for viewing checked
luggage at airports in
the USA and worldwide use
a combination of X-ray
doses and computed
tomography (CAT) that can
affect your film.
These units
protect the traveler
better because of the
increased abilities to
detect weapons and
plastic explosives but
they add a new
possibility of fogging
photographic film.
Here is
advice for you film
protection:
Pack no film
in luggage you check, all
film should be in your
carry-on luggage.
Request
hand-inspection of your
carry-on film, rather
than put it through the
X-ray devices used to
examine carry-on luggage.
Why?
First: while
the traditional X-ray
devices that "looked
into" your carry-on
luggage did not fog
low-speed film, some of
these new high-powered
X-ray devices are being
used to examine both
carry-on and checked
luggage.
Second:
cumulative X-raying of
film on a multiple
segment flight will have
an effect on your film -
even low-speed film.
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So
from now on, request
hand-inspection of all
your film and of any
cameras that are loaded
with film. It pays to be
safe, since the damage to
your film will not be
visible until your film
comes back from the
photofinisher.
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X-ray
machines and your digital
equipment
The effect of multiple
passes through airport
X-ray inspection units on
digital photo equipment
is not known.
It believed that such
inspections will have no
effect.
But ... better be safe
than sorry!
Avoid repeated x-ray
inspection: id your
digital camera and
storage devices.
Requesting hand
inspection will always be
safer.
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