Traveling with FP-100C by air

[Ektagraphic]

Hi Gang-

I will be heading away on a trip to the other side of the USA via air and I was wondering...IF I cannot get the airport to agree to hand check my packs of Fuji FP-100C and they do go through the carry on scanner, will they be harmed? I have had a poor experience a couple of times in the past trying to even get packed film hand checked, and want to assume that these will have to go through the carry-on X-ray. I know that packing them in my suit case would be far worse! Thanks and happy summer to all!

Pat

 

[vdonovan]

I've run FP-100c through the carry-on scanners many times, with no problems (that I've noticed). Usually it's just once per trip: I travel somewhere, shoot the pictures, then take the pictures home (the ones I haven't given away). The X-ray exposures are cumulative, so you wouldn't want your unexposed film to pass through more than two or three times.

 

[BradS]

As with all films, it is generally safer to just let it pass through the carry-on baggage scanner. Once it gets into the hands of a TSA agent, anything can and will happen. They all seem to want to "open the box" and look inside - even after you tell them five times that it is FILM and cannot be exposed to light.

 

[Ektagraphic]

Thanks for the advice! I am defiantly going to bring it along, and I'm not going to sweat it

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Just put the film in a separate bag from the camera, so that if they decide to put the camera bag through a second time from another angle, the film doesn't get a second dose.

 

[Ektagraphic]

An update: I traveled with the FP-100C without any problems. It was in a carry on bag along with the camera, and the couple of shots that went through the X-ray again on the way home that I had not shot made it through just fine. Thanks for the advice!