>What sets off the metal detectors is the metal cassette that the film is
>wound in. Even though there is silver in the emulsion of the film, it is
>not in a form that will register in metal detectors. Some shooters I know
>are loading their film into plastic cassettes and stuffing their vests with
>them. A friend of mine even reloads Kodachrome that way, goes into his
>darkroom, pops open the metal cassettes and sticks the spools right into
>the plastic ones. It's easier if you bulk load in the first place, of
>course.
This sounds like a good little trick, but could be problematic for me. I
have various bits of metal in me that prevent me from walking through the
metal detector and I always get swept with the handheld metal detector and
frisked. So, does anyone know, if I have a bunch of film in my pockets,
could they be damaged by the handheld metal detector?
Thanks,
Ed Kaspar
http://www.iipix.com
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