Had exactly the same experience recently at Detroit Metro airport with 20 rolls that I had requested be hand inspection. The rolls were out of the plastic containers and in one large zip lock bag. I travel alot and never ask for hand inspection, but thought with the heightened security they might have increased the power with the carry on baggage scanner. They had removed the sign that had stated scanning was safe on film. Won't do that again. Ken Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Tainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: rec.photo.film+labs To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: Film at airports, again
> I'm just back from three weeks overseas. Departing Albuquerque airport > on January 13, I asked for a hand inspection of my film, as I usually do > at U.S. airports. Result: they opened and wiped every cannister, then > tested each wipe on the sniffing machine (the one they use for portable > computers). Then they also made me remove my shoes, and wiped and tested > those. As each wipe takes a few seconds, this is time consuming for the > quantity of film I had with me. > > Guess I won't ask for hand inspection anymore. > > Joe > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
