London Airport

[SAShruby]

SAShruby, can you really get rid completely of the banding caused by x-rays?

X- ray Banding is caused by materials they in some way interfere with x-ray machine. Imagine it like x-raying of your bones. If you pack film in area where you have a number of different materials around your film, i.e. steel, paper, glass, plastic etc. you will get a banding.

Because I knew that, the prevention I do is that I always carry film and my film holders in special case which contains fabric only with dry zippers. Therefore I do not have any "banding".

Just my 2 cents.

[Kirk Gittings]

X- ray Banding is caused by materials they in some way interfere with x-ray machine.

Peter I think you are wrong about that.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/servi.../tib5201.shtml

[SAShruby]

Peter I think you are wrong about that.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/servi.../tib5201.shtml

I'm just stating my initial scientific approach which works for me. No bandings at all.

[Once]

I'm just stating my initial scientific approach which works for me. No bandings at all.

When science comes to rescue - let's x-ray it all with no steel around, abracadabra - no banding at all!

[Mike Boden]

Well, I'm back from my trip, and I thought I'd follow up with details. Basically, I was forced to have my film x-rayed in London two times...once on the way to Italy and another on the way home. After returning home and processing the film, it appears that the film wasn't affected. I don't see any fogging, color cast, or banding lines. This was true for Provia 100F, 160S Pro, T-max 100, & Tri-X 320.

So, it looks like I worried for nothing. I'll post some images when I get around to scanning.

[SAShruby]

voila.