I just got done with a 2 week trip through Europe. I did the bit of mixing various film speeds including Provia 1600 marked as Push 3200. I had no hassles at SeaTac, OHare, Charles-DeGaulle intra-europe, Munich intra-europe, Turin intra-Europe. But at CDG headed for the USA I almost lost all of my film. They had a final scanner check literally just before boarding and it took fairly hefty arguing and almost not getting on the plane to get them to not scan those bits of film that were marked as PUSH.
Their comment: Get a Film Bag so that everything can go trough the scanner... DO NOT, repeat DO NOT, put your film in checked luggage. With the new scanners being deployed even domestically, 400sp film has been getting fogged. BTW, while it is true that painters don't go on and on about their brushes, they do spend equiv amounts of time discussing their palettes and their choice of mediums (maragete etc.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Geraghty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:45 AM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Color Negative Film Poll > > > I'm leaving for my vacation soon, and although I'd like to evaluate my > > > camera equipment against various films, film processing and digital > > > post-processing, there's really no time. > > Something else comes to mind - given the current paranoia in the world, you > probably want to try to process the film in situ if you have to go through > baggage checks. High speed film especially may suffer if the X-ray scanners > are pumped up as high as they can go. Carry the film in hand luggage - I > think we dicussed this on the list before? > > Rob > >