Is hand check film available at Rome airport (FCO) in Italy?

[Tin Can]

Wonderful film!

I like your Vernacular delivering reality

with people adding scale

Thank you

Just developed a few sheets of film I shot in Rome and they turned out nicely. It is so inconvenient to carry film and go through different airports nowadays.

[diversey]

Thanks, Randy!

[reddesert]

Nice photos! Were you there at a time or day that the Colosseum was closed? It looks quite early or late in the day from the shadows. I was there in spring of this year and the whole plaza was crawling with people.

I only had some 35mm film, and departing from the Rome airport I saw that the X-ray machine where I was were an older type not CT scanners, so I didn't bother asking about hand inspection as time was short.

[Michael Kadillak]

It seems some airports still have film-safe X-ray machines to be used for checking film and carry-on baggage. It is nice to buy film locally when you travel or are on vacation, but it is hard to find a shop to develop exposed film, especially for film with N-x or N+x.

Glad that it worked out so well for you. Agree it is not worth trying to buy LF film locally. Last time I traveled abroad I spread the risk in two directions. I had B&H send me a box of 25 sheets of 8x10 FP4+ and then I Fed Exed a 50 sheet box of TMY in 8x10 in a lead shield (extra precaution even though I have been told countless times Fed Ex does not X Ray) along with a Please Do Not Xray and a photocopy of my passport inside to my AirBNB owner that agreed to receive both packages for me and put it in the freezer for when I got there. I received confirmation that both arrived before we started our trip and it all worked out well. In a perfect world I would process the film I shot before the return trip so it would be a risk off event with any X Ray than wanted to use and I could be assured of success with the images I made.

[diversey]

Reddesert: Thanks! I was there in early morning, around sunrise time. There are A LOT OF tourists during daytime. It is wise for airports to keep an old, film-safe x-ray machine for checking film.

[diversey]

Ideally bring Bach developed film, but it is hard to find a local shop to develop sheet film nowadays.

Glad that it worked out so well for you. Agree it is not worth trying to buy LF film locally. Last time I traveled abroad I spread the risk in two directions. I had B&H send me a box of 25 sheets of 8x10 FP4+ and then I Fed Exed a 50 sheet box of TMY in 8x10 in a lead shield (extra precaution even though I have been told countless times Fed Ex does not X Ray) along with a Please Do Not Xray and a photocopy of my passport inside to my AirBNB owner that agreed to receive both packages for me and put it in the freezer for when I got there. I received confirmation that both arrived before we started our trip and it all worked out well. In a perfect world I would process the film I shot before the return trip so it would be a risk off event with any X Ray than wanted to use and I could be assured of success with the images I made.