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Insane new TSA rule for film inspection
"Bandicoot" wrote:
Sooner or later someone - a dealer, or maybe Kodak or Fuji - might start an 'order before you fly, pick it up at the destination airport' service, which would remove the problem for the major destinations. Sooner or later we will all use digital when we travel by air. I did that on my last trip to New York. It was a blessed relief not to have to worry about film, hand inspections etc.. On my last trip to Spain (I go two or three times a year to shoot real estate) I took a calculated risk and passed the film through the hand baggage scanners going both ways. No problems, but the fastest film I had was ISO 100. |
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Insane new TSA rule for film inspection
TP wrote:
"Bandicoot" wrote: Sooner or later someone - a dealer, or maybe Kodak or Fuji - might start an 'order before you fly, pick it up at the destination airport' service, which would remove the problem for the major destinations. Sooner or later we will all use digital when we travel by air. I did that on my last trip to New York. It was a blessed relief not to have to worry about film, hand inspections etc.. Lets just hope that the ever stronger security measures will not introduce scanning devices harmful to electronics... Just a thought: For non-professionals transition to digital is not such a straight forward decision: You will write off your gear and gladly replace it. We observe a bit more how much still can be done to the camera sensors and how fast the current gear devalues. For example, there is a mass of D30's and D60's out there, many D60 owners wish they would have a 10D... Now the D1MkII sets fully new margins in noise/signal ratio, everybody will be measured on this standard. Whoever travels with photo gear for vacation only, will be likely to rather accept the inconvenience of passing airports with film over the rather long term consequence of owning gear of a very temporary technical standard... Thomas On my last trip to Spain (I go two or three times a year to shoot real estate) I took a calculated risk and passed the film through the hand baggage scanners going both ways. No problems, but the fastest film I had was ISO 100. |
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Insane new TSA rule for film inspection
"ThomasH" wrote in message
... TP wrote: "Bandicoot" wrote: Sooner or later someone - a dealer, or maybe Kodak or Fuji - might start an 'order before you fly, pick it up at the destination airport' service, which would remove the problem for the major destinations. Sooner or later we will all use digital when we travel by air. I did that on my last trip to New York. It was a blessed relief not to have to worry about film, hand inspections etc.. Lets just hope that the ever stronger security measures will not introduce scanning devices harmful to electronics... Yep. Given how semi-conductors work (I mean at the crystal level) one really ought to expect x-rays to damage them. The harder the x-rays, the faster the damage ought to accrue. I haven't seen any research on this, but it seems logical. (Think of how thermoluminescence happens, for example.) Just a pessimistic thought... Peter |
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Insane new TSA rule for film inspection
Bandicoot writes:
Yep. Given how semi-conductors work (I mean at the crystal level) one really ought to expect x-rays to damage them. The harder the x-rays, the faster the damage ought to accrue. The first thing high-energy EMR will do to chips is discharge any accumulated charges within them by ionizing the semiconductor. So they'll erase memory chips. It takes a lot of energy to do this, but it can be done. Much higher energies are required to do any permanent damage. Remember that EEPROMS can be erased by ultraviolet light, which is much softer than x rays. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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