Actually, the X-ray machine used to scan hand-carried items CANNOT be turned up. That is the machine to examine checked baggage. The risk to passengers of turning up the carry-on scanner would be too great. If they can't see something on the carry-on X-ray, they simply hand inspect.
I have heard of no incidence where film has been fogged with the carry-on scanner. Does anyone know of a verifiable problem? peace, rand | That was study might as well have been a million years ago. The new | machines are capable of being turned up to VERY high levels for dense | objects. Even ISO 100 film can be fogged if run through these new x-ray | machines and the operator leaves it under the gun (so to speak), for any | length of time while the machine is turned up. Always request a hand | search, you can speed it up by putting naked 35mm canisters in large freezer | zip-lock bags so they can see what it is, also toss in a few rolls of ISO | 3200 to help your request for a hand search. Even so they will sometimes | ask to see the film cans and even pull some film out. | | | Regards, | | Chip Louie * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
