On my flight to Ireland from LAX a couple of weeks ago I sent my backpack with 200 sheets of 4x5 film, camera, and Pentax spotmeter through the x-ray machine. During the trip through the machine the operator stopped it and took a second look at the monitor. I think it was the meter she was looking at with a trigger, a handle and a short barrel, (lens). Anyway she went to get her supervisor and the two discussed my belongings for a while before allowing it to pass through. My question is does the machine take a snapshot of my backpack, or was the x-ray on the whole time they were looking at it? It must have been 30 seconds or more before they let it through.
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