X-raped film.

[Matt Blaze]

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

For the record, that's definitely not true, at least in the US (yes, I realize the original post involved Canada). While the X-rays used for passenger carry-on screening are low power and unlikely to fog film in a single or small number of exposures, those used for checked baggage (and Customs) screening are very high power and will readily fog even very slow film. Not all checked baggage is X-ray screened, but when it is, any film inside is virtually guaranteed to be ruined.

I tested this recently by putting a sheet of Polaroid (stored inside a Polaroid back to prevent the goop packet from being ruptured by the bag throwers) in my checked luggage before each flight I took. On about half of my flights (out of PHL, SFO, IAD and a couple of regional airports) the sheet was visibly fogged on arrival.

[eddie]

WOW, and I thought the airport people were incompetent.

Nate Potter

HAR HAR HAR! that was good!

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.

do not worry. i met the only A-hole screener ever in vietnam! he x rayed all my film! BUT it came out fine! ( he went to the other machine and i called my brother, who was on the other side of the x ray machine waiting for his wife, and told him the A hole had stepped out of his line and to go through. he was very graciously granted a hand check!) luckily we both made out well that day.

eddie

ps. i never had had any problems shipping my film domestically in the US or to and from thailand by the PO.