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by SantaFeJoe on Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:13 pm

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New scanners at airports may ruin undeveloped film. I’m presuming this is accurate, but haven’t verified it.

https://petapixel.com/2019/10/21/beware-new-3d-airport-scanners-will-destroy-your-camera-film/

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by signgrap on Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:35 pm

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This is nothing new. I use to put all my film into x ray proof bags to keep it from getting fogged by repeatedly being x rayed when flying.

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by Jeff Colburn on Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:40 pm

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Hi,

I used to put my film canisters in a clear ziplock bag and would have them inspected by hand.

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by SantaFeJoe on Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:13 pm

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signgrap wrote:This is nothing new. I use to put all my film into x ray proof bags to keep it from getting fogged by repeatedly being x rayed when flying.

While it’s true that you could place film in a lead bag to protect it before, the article says that those bags won’t protect film from this machine, which is said to be like scanning your film a thousand times the old way. In my workshops in the ‘90s, I used to teach about protecting film when flying. I also recommended having film hand inspected, but some people at the airports used to refuse to do that. Anyway, this only applies to a very limited number of people.

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by SantaFeJoe on Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:38 pm

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