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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now
all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on board. It is absolutely essential to have the film (and the camera containing film) in a lead pouch. Otherwise, many strong x-rays used for checked luggage will fry all your film. Camera stores have or can get the lead pouches. On my last trip, I had some instant coffee in a plastic container with a small silver-plated spoon. One of the x-ray machines was so strong that it melted and solidified all the coffee! Not exactly film safe! Larry in Berkeley, California |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
"Larry in Berkeley" wrote:
If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on board. You can still carry cameras aboard on flights originating in the USA. The only place in the world that restricts you are flights originating in the UK. It is absolutely essential to have the film (and the camera containing film) in a lead pouch. Otherwise, many strong x-rays used for checked luggage will fry all your film. Camera stores have or can get the lead pouches. Lead pouches are not thick enough to protect your film from the x-ray machines used to inspect checked baggage. They can use much higher levels of x-rays than the machines used to inspect carry-on bags. One of the bag manufacturers (Domke) did a test, and concluded that a lead bag that was thick enough to provide protection for film in checked baggage would too heavy to be practical for passengers to carry. |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
Larry wrote:
If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on board. I think your blanket statement is not founded on fact, For example, the AA website places a restriction on electronic devices carried on only on UK to US flights - nowhere else. What airlines support your claim. Further, I would further add that a "film" camera is no more an electronic device than a wallet once you remove the batteries. rg |
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Larry in Berkeley wrote: On my last trip, I had some instant coffee in a plastic container with a small silver-plated spoon. One of the x-ray machines was so strong that it melted and solidified all the coffee! Not exactly film safe! Are you sure it was the x-rays, not the temperatures in the hold? (I know it's cold, once aloft, but I've had the same experience with instant coffee I carried in my car, after a few rest stops in the hot summer sun, with the car closed and locked.) |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
"Larry in Berkeley" wrote:
If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on board. I don't think this is true. miguel -- Photos from 40 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu Latest photos: Malaysia; Thailand; Singapore; Spain; Morocco Airports of the world: http://airport.u.nu |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
"sharkbait999" wrote in message news:yVIDg.11259$hH1.2317@trnddc08... Larry wrote: If you are travelling by air with a film camera, don't forget that now all airlines require cameras to be in checked luggage, not carried on board. I think your blanket statement is not founded on fact, For example, the AA website places a restriction on electronic devices carried on only on UK to US flights - nowhere else. What airlines support your claim. Further, I would further add that a "film" camera is no more an electronic device than a wallet once you remove the batteries. rg The last part of your statement is rubbish. Add batteries to a camera and it's workable, and furthermore by modifying the flash device built into most cameras it becomes an effective detonator. Just the item airport security are trying to take out of the hands of potential terrorists. Try using a wallet as a detonator. Regards David Bennetts |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
On 13 Aug 2006 09:26:48 -0700, "Larry in Berkeley"
wrote: On my last trip, I had some instant coffee in a plastic container with a small silver-plated spoon. One of the x-ray machines was so strong that it melted and solidified all the coffee! Not exactly film safe! How do you know the x-ray machine did this? |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
Ken wrote: On 13 Aug 2006 09:26:48 -0700, "Larry in Berkeley" wrote: On my last trip, I had some instant coffee in a plastic container with a small silver-plated spoon. One of the x-ray machines was so strong that it melted and solidified all the coffee! Not exactly film safe! How do you know the x-ray machine did this? I do not know of any other source of energy that would melt the coffee without any damage or disturbance to anything else (even the soft candy) in the suitcase. I assume there was some interaction with the metal spoon causing it to overheat. Such high temperatures are highly unlikely in the baggage compartment aloft and there was not such high temperature on land before or after. Thanks to all who corrected my understanding about carryon of cameras. Yes, hand checking of film is a good idea if you are allowed to carry it on. News annoucements just after the incident said only passport and wallet were allowed carryon and they had to be in a plastic bag, nothing said about that only being from the UK. Maybe just sloppy reporting or that was a temporary rule. Larry in Berkeley |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
On my last trip, I had some instant coffee in a plastic container with
a small silver-plated spoon. One of the x-ray machines was so strong that it melted and solidified all the coffee! Not exactly film safe! How do you know the x-ray machine did this? I do not know of any other source of energy that would melt the coffee without any damage or disturbance to anything else (even the soft candy) in the suitcase. I assume there was some interaction with the metal spoon causing it to overheat. That sounds more like what an induction loop detector might do (it's basically a low-power microwave oven). Yes, hand checking of film is a good idea if you are allowed to carry it on. You can't get anything hand checked at UK airports. The only way to get film through (before the present panic) was to hand-spool 35mm into your own plastic cassettes, or use 120 film and remove the foil wrappers. That way you can stuff your pockets and not set off the induction loop detectors. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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Film Cameras in Checked Luggage
"Larry in Berkeley" wrote in message ups.com... News annoucements just after the incident said only passport and wallet were allowed carryon and they had to be in a plastic bag, nothing said about that only being from the UK. Maybe just sloppy reporting or that was a temporary rule. Larry in Berkeley I have read this message from rec.travel.asia. My wife is travelling from Perth (Australia) to Amsterdam this week so I checked with the airline this morning. They advised me that unless she was travelling via the UK (which she isn't) the rules about carryon luggage were NOT changed from before the emergency. Mind you the security will be heightened. So cameras are still allowed in the cabin, depending on where you are flying to/from. Gerrit |
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