I posed my negative experience (pun intended...) this summer w/ the TSA security people at SFO in a separate thread:
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...05#post1206305
At least I got them to cough up $95 for a box of ruined 4X5 TMX 100.
I had originally asked for hand screening at SFO because the film had already been screened 7 times in Europe, and because there is no guarantee that all scanners everywhere are being maintained to specs. Seemed like a good idea at the time — 100% hindsight. There was some minor damage to about a dozen sheets of TMX, with very faint lines that seemed to be from boxes stacked above them.
The security guy at SFO, opened all my boxes of exposed film w/o asking me if I would rather have them scanned — and out of my direct line of sight. That was the big problem. Next time itʻs FedEx.
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