Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Thoughts about cameras and the new aviation rules
From: Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 20:49:36 +0200

le 16.09.2001 18:06, Ted Grant à tedgrant@home.com a écrit :

> Tarek Charara wrote:
>>>>> Does anybody have any experience with those leadbags for film??<<
> 
> Hi Tarek,
> Save your money they are a waste of money, buy film instead.
> 
> If you are carrying film in hand baggage take all your film out of the boxes
> and canisters, throw them into clear ziplock freezer bags and when you get
> to the security scanners take the bags film and hand them to security for
> hand check.
> 
> 99.99% of the time they'll look it over and pass it un-scanned to the other
> side.  Then again! No matter how much discussion and upsettedness you
> get........ you are wasting your time, just let it go and it'll be fine !
> 
> As far as lead bags in checked bags forget it bigtime, as all that happens
> is one of two things:
> 
> The dosage is increased until the scanner can see what's inside... "end of
> film!"  Or you are politely asked in a quiet room to open your bags and show
> the security folks what's in the bags.Again more wasted time of yours and
> theirs!
> 
> And quite frankly at the moment, I think we could all be beating our key
> boards and wasting time until after the security folks have had a few weeks
> to shake down whatever new regulations are being out in place or will be.
> 
> Just don't think it's ever going back to what we always considered "normal!"
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> 
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Thank you for all the info... the only problem I had with leadbags so far
was with TMZ. Some strage, spotlike fogging... Anyway I'll give the ZIPlock
bags and handchecking a try on my next few airtrips...

Tarek

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