William, I'm going to be doing some checking into buying film there - the 120 variety may be a bit trickier and much more expensive on Maui. Same goes for developing. But it certainly is worth checking into. I've also heard of people having film shipped to their destination by a carrier that guarantees the film won't be irradiated in some fashion.
Bruce Sunday, February 2, 2003, 11:54:50 PM, you wrote: WR> ----- Original Message ----- WR> From: "Bruce Dayton" WR> Subject: Re: New Thread - Air Travel and film >> William, >> >> Good to know - not necessarily good news. One option was to only take >> the 67 and the little digicam. That way, I would only be carrying 120 >> film. You know how it comes in the airtight wrapper - It seems the >> Kodak ones are plastic, but the Fuji and Agfa ones seem more like a >> very thin metal foil. I'm guessing that those wouldn't go through the >> detector. I could always unwrap them, but then that doesn't seem like >> too good of an idea. What do you think? >> >> Maybe only a Kodak trip? WR> I do like Kodak film..... WR> Seriously, I only know what I have seen film wise, I don't know squat about WR> which security systems are doing what. I have seen a heck of a lot of WR> unaffected film too, so it's not all bad. WR> No real pattern to where the people have been, one fellow had been on a 6 WR> month sabbatical to India, and had about 30 wrecked rolls. WR> That was the worst. WR> Mostly Mexican vacations and the like. WR> Wrong colour and too evenly cooked to be heat damage though. WR> Have you considered buying your film at your destination and getting it WR> processed there as well? WR> Not printed, but process only.. WR> William Robb
