abruzzi
Member
Here is the hypothetical:
You are traveling, flying across an ocean to a place with stunning architecture, and picturesque vistas. You could bring a digital camera, but thats really no fun. However you are worried about returning with undeveloped film due to CT scanners, but you do know flying out you can get hand checks, so you can buy film ahead of time (lets avoid discussion of whether CT scanners will actually damage the film, and assume that you are paranoid enough that a 5% chance of damage is more than you're willing to stomach.)
So being a B&W-only photographer, you think--why not develop on the road? You can probably fly with checmicals, but there is a limitation of 3oz (88ml) containers for liquid. One of your big limitations, is you won't really be able to reliably buy photo specific stuff once you arrive (film, chemicals, tanks & spools, etc.), so it has to be packed.
First off, do you talk yourself out of it and just fedex all your undevelped film home at the end of the trip? Second, if you do think this is a reasonable thing to do, what and how do you do this? Figure 2-3 rolls a 120 film a day, and probably want to develop most evenings to keep up.
Extra bonus points if you've actually done this and can speak from experience.
You are traveling, flying across an ocean to a place with stunning architecture, and picturesque vistas. You could bring a digital camera, but thats really no fun. However you are worried about returning with undeveloped film due to CT scanners, but you do know flying out you can get hand checks, so you can buy film ahead of time (lets avoid discussion of whether CT scanners will actually damage the film, and assume that you are paranoid enough that a 5% chance of damage is more than you're willing to stomach.)
So being a B&W-only photographer, you think--why not develop on the road? You can probably fly with checmicals, but there is a limitation of 3oz (88ml) containers for liquid. One of your big limitations, is you won't really be able to reliably buy photo specific stuff once you arrive (film, chemicals, tanks & spools, etc.), so it has to be packed.
First off, do you talk yourself out of it and just fedex all your undevelped film home at the end of the trip? Second, if you do think this is a reasonable thing to do, what and how do you do this? Figure 2-3 rolls a 120 film a day, and probably want to develop most evenings to keep up.
Extra bonus points if you've actually done this and can speak from experience.