X-raped film.

[walter23]

Awhile ago I posted a question about a package I had sent by Canada Post Xpresspost to myself - whether or not air post would be X-rayed.

Well - it is X-rayed. I sent E100VS, Velvia 100, 160VC Portra, Efke IR820, and FP4+ to myself in various quantities (about $300 - $400 total film value, just because I was too lazy to unpackage stuff and split it up). The efke stuff is trashed - fog down one side of every sheet and tons of parallel streaks. FP4+ might be okay - I haven't been able to see anything on the negatives just by visual inspection. I haven't checked the colour stuff yet.

Let this be a warning though; do not assume postage is not X-rayed. The damage looks just like the samples I've seen posted by one of the manufacturers, Kodak I believe, so I've got no reason to suspect it was anything else.

Also, my parcel had a baggage-tag-like sticker attached to it with "YYC" (my airport code) - something I've never seen before. Maybe they put it in with passenger luggage due to a very low volume shipment that date?

The point is - you don't know what to expect.

[gregstidham]

You sent it from the USA to Canada?

[walter23]

No, within Canada.

[Sylvester Graham]

Did you put a "film: do not X-ray" sticker on there? I'm not sure if those things actually make a difference.

[walter23]

I made a mistake. I'm embarrassed to retract this after all the noise, but I did a couple of stupid things in my processing and gave the impression of X-ray damage. I think it's because I was using an old fixer solution (fogging) and because I had loaded my film backwards into the processing drum (streaks).

So, uhh, heh. Ignore.

[Nathan Potter]

WOW, and I thought the airport people were incompetent.

Nate Potter

[Asher Kelman]

Hi Walter,

I'd be surprised that anything below 800 ISO would get damaged.

Anyway, I'd be careful to add a Unexposed Film do not XRAY

Asher

[Maretzo]

I made a mistake. I'm embarrassed to retract this after all the noise, but I did a couple of stupid things in my processing and gave the impression of X-ray damage. I think it's because I was using an old fixer solution (fogging) and because I had loaded my film backwards into the processing drum (streaks).

So, uhh, heh. Ignore.

Ouf! I feel relieved. I have just finished 4 rolls of 120 in Vietnam and had to go through 20th technology scanners, at least twice.

[Neal Wydra]

Dear Walter23,

I admire your honesty.

Neal Wydra

[KenM]

WOW, and I thought the airport people were incompetent.

Nate Potter

That was completely uncalled for. Grow up.