According to a friend who used London Luton airport last month, it now has CT scanners for hand baggage. I just checked their website and this is confirmed. There's no way to contact that particular "department" so when I travel from Luton next month I shall request hand inspection of my film and report back as to what happens. A reminder to people travelling to/from UK airports, the UK Department for Transport has instructed all airports to action requests to hand inspect photographic materials.
I'll be travelling to Arrecife (ACE) Lanzarote and the website for that airport still states liquids must be separated in zip bags so I am guessing they're still X-ray scanners.
By all means, indulge, but I think the kind of testing that ADOX/Bessonova have done, which despite its extensive scope still suffers from several of the limitations implied above, already draws a bit of a picture of what we may expect.
I see this a bit differently..
ADOX/Bessonova did a great test, but it was one test only, so it doesn't give a good overview how risky different CT scanners are in average, but only of the one in their particular trip.
if everybody would send one film through a scanner on every trip and fill it into a database, it would be of great value with enough samples.
now getting everybody involved to risk a roll and setting up the infrastructure to collect/process/present the info is unlikely to happen, but with a few hundred samples it would be a fantastic resource.
In UK, I have gone through multiple airports with CT equipment, like LHR, BHx and GTW, they all comply with hand inspection. However the same airports do not comply with hand inspection if you are on the like for XRay scanner.
a big banner that read "I KILLED KODACHROME AND TECHNICAL PAN"
That’s funny… they advertise that they killed Kodachrome TechPan yet say it’s safe for ISO400. There may be a generation gap between the sign and the statement.
Did it have little icons depicting rolls of film somewhere on the housing of the scanner, preferably close to the operator area, that symbolized the number of rolls of film it had destroyed? That would be neat.
There wasn't such sign, it was just a joke.
If there was such a sign, that would mean a PHOTRIO member is working there at the airport.
There wasn't such sign, it was just a joke.
If there was such a sign, that would mean a PHOTRIO member is working there at the airport.
the number of rolls of film it had destroyed?
The rare stuff of myth and legend. Seldom seen and seldom remembered.
Or, should we say...
"...one of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
A lot of younger airport security people don't seem aware of what film is, nor that some cameras cannot be switched on and produce an image on a screen. I've been asked to turn on a 1930s Ikonta and demonstrate that it works. Sure, I can demonstrate that the shutter fires, but the security bod was expecting an electronic image....I was eventually saved by his colleague who looked to be in his fifties.
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