Mister_Hat
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I've taken Delta 400 to Europe and back without an issue and no hassles at any of the airports with one exception. Avoid going through Newark, it at all possible.
Film and airports
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I had all my 120 opened and checked for C4.
As I said before : use a LEAD bag. They never once went into my luggage to open that lead bag. It had 20 rolls of film in it. scanned at least three times.
You'd think they would wonder about the dense patch in the bag. That's where I would keep my C4 if I wanted to bring it on the plane. but, no trouble at all. Even though they searched me hard, made me take off my clothes, opened my other film.
I was smart enough to forget the 3200 (left it in the bag unprotected). It was fogged heavily.
As I said before : use a LEAD bag. They never once went into my luggage to open that lead bag. It had 20 rolls of film in it. scanned at least three times.
You'd think they would wonder about the dense patch in the bag. That's where I would keep my C4 if I wanted to bring it on the plane. but, no trouble at all. Even though they searched me hard, made me take off my clothes, opened my other film.
I was smart enough to forget the 3200 (left it in the bag unprotected). It was fogged heavily.
raid
Dad Photographer
I took ASA 100~400 with me to Japan last summer, and even after repeated X-ray inspections, everything came out fine.
P C Headland
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Just hand-carry your film and don't worry about it.
People have been sending films through HAND BAGGAGE scanners in Europe and the rest of the world for years, and it's very hard to find any verifiable evidence that the hand baggage scanners have caused damage to films up to 800 (or more recently 1600).
When I was flying (in Europe) at least one return trip each week for two periods of 6 months, I used to carry a Minox 35GT loaded with ISO400 colour film. The camera and each film would have gone through the scanners a dozen times or more, and even night shots showed no fogging.
So, don't worry. Unless you put your film in the checked-in baggage ....
People have been sending films through HAND BAGGAGE scanners in Europe and the rest of the world for years, and it's very hard to find any verifiable evidence that the hand baggage scanners have caused damage to films up to 800 (or more recently 1600).
When I was flying (in Europe) at least one return trip each week for two periods of 6 months, I used to carry a Minox 35GT loaded with ISO400 colour film. The camera and each film would have gone through the scanners a dozen times or more, and even night shots showed no fogging.
So, don't worry. Unless you put your film in the checked-in baggage ....
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jaapv
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I've taken film in lead bags up to 200 rolls at a time through dozens of airports in all kinds of countries ranging from the USA to Rwanda and never ever have the lead bags (usually more than one) caused any comment. It was always waved through. Maybe I look extremely non-terrorist, or have been plain lucky, but there it is...
raid
Dad Photographer
Tokyo Airport personnel kept on X-Raying my camera bag until I got upset and I explained to them that while one run may not hurt the film much but that doing this over and over and over may actually damage the film. Three young women looked at me with worried faces until one fo them showed me a sign that stated something about safe X-Ray for film up ASA 1600. I still returned with good looking film.
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