Quote Originally Posted by Rayt View Post
I was flying back from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam a few weeks ago and saw they had the new 3D scanners the ones that look like CT scanners in hospitals. I recall reading somewhere these 3D scanners take hundreds of images of your luggage to form a 3D image. While I have never seen ill effects on my film from normal x ray machine I was worried about the new ones. I was carrying lots of 135 film and asked for a hand check and they said yes. Whew. Any one has experience with these 3D scanners? I will have 100 sheets of 4x5 TMY through SFO and know they have the 3D scanners. I don’t want to risk TSA opening the box to swab the inside even if they ok hand check.
I haven’t yet found much info about the impact of these new scanning machines on film. Looking forward to seeing any data or authoritative information to support observations and experiences. But if you think film photographers are the only people with challenges at airport baggage screening, check this out:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...-penis/527673/