Gotta love X-Ray!

[lucasjld]

Backpacked two weeks around Europe. Got my film x-rayed leaving and going back to the UK via Eurostar. Only two times.

Good thing it only affected some random shots, and most of them were not the nicest from each roll.

 

[grainhound]

3 questions:
1] Was the film in your carry-on or in a checked bag?
2] What ISO was the film?
3] Did you go through Heathrow?

 

[jwicaksana]

Are you talking about the light strip, or does overall color balance is affected too? Can you please some examples of non damaged ones?

 

[MartinP]

For Eurostar, which is a train service, there is no distinction made between sizes of baggage so far as I recall (I last used it five weeks ago). The machines appear to be the sort that do carry-on baggage in airports. I have had no noticeable problems with film and the notices state the systems are safe up to 400.

If there were any airports involved without an x-ray then it would be a surprise - or did you ask for hand check in the airports? The swirl shape does look rather x-ray like unfortunately. As the previous poster said, what speed was the film? And another question would be what was the reason for not having it developed before travelling?

 

[Sparrow]

I've had film through a dozen or more scans without issue ... and why would it just effect that strip, the scanners expose the whole bag, how else could they form an image?

 

[Rob-F]

Are you sure that's an X-Ray problem, not a shutter problem? It looks to be in about the same place on both exposures. Does it show up in that same place in other exposures?

 

[k__43]

****! that's terrible

I'm never checking my films in, I always keep them in my carry-on luggage.

On my trip to china/taiwan/hong kong my films were scanned multiple times.
They also have luggage checks on the Beijing subway (well I was keeping my films in the jeans pockets after the first day) but I think some rolls must have been scanned over ten times on this trip. (with connecting flights today they make you go thru securities anyway) .. Nothing happened .. nothing at all

 

[lucasjld]

100% sure is not a shutter problem because other affected pictures have a different markings. Films were not stored in the same place in the backpack, all were Portra 400.

Don't now how ir really works, but the guy at the lab said that some x-ray machines have a kind of "first layer check", then if they want a more precise on some part of the bag, the waves are like a CAT scan.

Its just bad luck. I went to Paris from London three weeks before and all three rolls were fine.

Must have been in checked in luggage...?

Backpacking around Europe... took a train. Don't think there is check in luggage...

 

[Sparrow]

100% sure is not a shutter problem because other affected pictures have a different markings. Films were not stored in the same place in the backpack, all were Portra 400.

Don't now how ir really works, but the guy at the lab said that some x-ray machines have a kind of "first layer check", then if they want a more precise on some part of the bag, the waves are like a CAT scan.

Its just bad luck. I went to Paris from London three weeks before and all three rolls were fine.



Backpacking around Europe... took a train. Don't think there is check in luggage...

The x-ray machine operators have no control over their output, they can only adjust the contrast ... I'd suspect the "guy at the lab" long before the x-ray machine

 

[valdas]

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib5201.shtml

Your photos look very alike...

 

[lucasjld]

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib5201.shtml

Your photos look very alike...

Thanks! So it is CAT scan indeed..

 

[Sparrow]

... you didn't notice it at the time then?