On 2 Jul 2002 at 7:23, Stan Halpin wrote: > Bill - everything I've read says NOT, repeat, NOT to carry your film through the > metal detectors. You are more likely to have your film suffer damage that way. > And do NOT pack film in a check-in bag. The safest inspection is by hand, but > the check-on bag x-ray seems fairly benign. The effect is cumulative, so you > need to take a different approach on a long trip with many stopovers and many > passes through the machine (ask for hand inspection, or buy the film on site, or > at least process your film on site as you can) vs. a non-stop out-and-back trip > where you could pretty safely just pass the film through the x-ray.
Stan, A metal detector cannot damage photographic film and the magnetic field produced by the detector is simply too weak to cause any damage to magnetic storage media. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
