Films and flight hold luggage

[mpt600]

Maybe leave the film behind and buy/dev locally.

 

[egpj]

Buying the film locally just limits you in what you can shoot and expect to have ready to return to the states. For me, when I go back down to South America, I think I will ship some film down before I leave. I have some time so I can set things up. I'll try and shoot mostly Super XP2 which is rated at 400 and the box says can be pushed to 800. But God I love the slow stuff as well! Pan F 50 and FP4 get run alot around my household. Not to mention HP5. Looks like Fed-Ex and I will be gettting a relationship going because I doubt that this whole thing will just blow over in time. Now that the bottle has been opened you can not put the Genie back in the bottle. The best we can hope for is they allow us to carry our computers on board once again but I would not hold my breath for that in the near future.

 

[Ash]

I'm not travelling until the end of the month. If things aren't sorted by then, I'm buying film at the destination, and C-41 processing (if its colour). If things are ok by the end of the month then its all in the hand luggage.

I wasn't even aware of all this til I got home at 6:30pm BST and saw the new.


Good luck to everyone needing to fly with camera stuff.

on topic though - if it's already exposed, develop it where you are. worst comes to worst use coffee and baking soda for dev, lemon juice for stop, and I'm not sure about fix just yet 😀

 

[jaapv]

Buying the film locally just limits you in what you can shoot and expect to have ready to return to the states. For me, when I go back down to South America, I think I will ship some film down before I leave. I have some time so I can set things up. I'll try and shoot mostly Super XP2 which is rated at 400 and the box says can be pushed to 800. But God I love the slow stuff as well! Pan F 50 and FP4 get run alot around my household. Not to mention HP5. Looks like Fed-Ex and I will be gettting a relationship going because I doubt that this whole thing will just blow over in time. Now that the bottle has been opened you can not put the Genie back in the bottle. The best we can hope for is they allow us to carry our computers on board once again but I would not hold my breath for that in the near future.

Shoot Kodachrome. It is still available if you order it by e-mail at your destination and it will be shipped back to the States for developing anyway.

 

[pab]

Folks

I checked the web site for Manchester airport and you can still make purchases in duty free to carry on board once past security. Boots sometimes stock slide film and black and white film, so you may be able to stock up with a few emergency rolls at least.

Per

 

[Ash]

What about Bristol?? Their duty free is shockingly poor. b&w is probs £10 a roll because its a novelty item!