Hi Kostas, exposed film does travel just fine. You have to take some precautions though.
First, never ~ I mean never put it in check-in luggage (great description :) ~ since Xray machines for that use much greater radiation dose and film gets easily damaged there, especially if it goes trough the Xray machine multiple times. The best way is to ask for hand check when going trough the arch, but from my experience (London Gatwick airport, for example) this is doable for higher than 400 ISO films only. It all depends on the clerk working there. For ISO 400 and lower films, normally they don't want to check by hand. If hand check doesn't work, hand luggage Xray machine doesn't do much harm. At least, all my films up to 3200 ISO have survived just fine so far. Knocking on the wood, that is. Matjaž > > Hi folks, > > I am on holiday in Greece and have shot 2 Kodak T-MAX 400 (@800, if it > makes any difference). I would like to develop them in my favourite > lab (Ilfords in the UK) but I am worried about X-ray machines and > metal-detector arches etc. > > Do you see any problem? Would you fly with them back to your origin? > Where would you put them, in the x-ray machine for hand-luggage, in > your pocket through the arch, or in the luggage you kiss goodbye > (perhaps forever) at the check-in desk? Or would you post them home? > > Perhaps too worried but thought to ask, > Kostas > >
