HOLD X-Ray Film Safe say FujiFilm UK

[lincoln_m]

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Hi,

So this week I asked FujiFilm if the airport hold X-ray baggage machines are film safe. They seem to think they are OK. We had the following e-mail exchange.

Regards, Lincoln

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PS I find this new forum too big with so many pages for each thread, and many pages of old posts. The prominent use of posters login names instead of their real names gives it a computer hacker feel instead of a Leica photographic forum feel. What has happened to all the questions on kit etc. It now seems to be a car, music club instead of a Leica club. The old forum seemed smaller, selective. For all this re-vamp we can't post larger images than before but it is now cluttered with 30 pages of threads each with 5-6 pages of comments. The old way of archiving old threads did keep it all neat and tidy so you can get your head around what is going on. Now it is just a random mess, in my opinion.

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Anyway on to the e-mails from Fuji assuming this won't get swallowed up and lost.

 

 

> From: Customer-Service [mailto:Customer-service@fujilab.co.uk]

> Sent: 15 August 2006 09:03

> To: Lincoln Moult

> Subject: RE:Are Airport Hold Baggage X-Ray machines Film Safe?

> [iD#2179709]

>

> Dear Lincoln Moult,

>

> Thank you for your email,

>

> I have spoken to our lab technician and they have informed me that the

> films should be fine going through main airports although problems may

> occur if you are travelling to less developed countries which do not

> have up to date technology.

>

> Should you have any further queries please feel free to contact me again

> as i will be more than happy to help

>

> Yours Sincerely

> {I removed the name}

> E6 processing laborator

 

> To:Customer-Service <Customer-service@fujilab.co.uk>

> Received:08/15/2006 11:11

> Subject:RE: Are Airport Hold Baggage X-Ray machines Film Safe? [iD#2179709]

>

> Hi,

> Thank you. OK so you are saying that the HOLD baggage x-ray machines are

> film safe?

>

> I know the hand baggage machines are film safe because I have always

> taken my film in my hand baggage through Europe, USA, and Nepal.

> Fortunately the current handbaggage restrictions have been put back to

> almost normal and I hope I can take my Velvia as normal through

> security.

>

> HOLD baggage X-Ray tests

> ========================

> I shall run some tests with some spare colour negative film that I do

> not care about. I will put 1 film in my hold baggage and get it

> developed in Corfu while I'm there. On return I shall do the same

> although I suspect the Greek X-Ray machines are just larger versions of

> the hand baggage X-Rays and should be OK.

>

> I will let you know the outcome of my experiments.

> Regards, Lincoln

Dear Lincoln Moult

 

I have spoken to my lab supervisor and he has informed me that the newer equipment used in the luggage X-ray machine Shouldn't damage the film, and so you should be ok to send your film in your normal luggage. i would be very interested to have confirmation to this and look forward to the outcome of your experiments.

 

Should you have any further queries please feel free to contact me again as i will be more than happy to help you

 

Yours sincerely

E6 Lab

[tobey bilek]

Special film safe x-ray. Belive that and you can start making payments on the Brooklyn Bridge too.

 

It may may not totally distroy it, but small doses will fog it a small amount that may not be visable to a casual user.

 

Hold luggage x rays are absolutely guaranteed to destroy film one pass if your airport has the latest. There are signs up to this effect. All airports may not have them and the authorities are not telling which do.

 

Ship film ahead and pray or buy whatever you can find on location and pray twice as hard.

 

I think photographers are in deep trouble.

[twom4]

Ship film ahead and pray or buy whatever you can find on location and pray twice as hard.

 

I think photographers are in deep trouble.

 

 

Time to go digital???

[lambroving]

Chris,

 

No problem with hand inspection anywhere in the U.S. and no problem for me recently at Heathrow either when I uttered the magic words. That was just before this recent scare, but I expect things will settle down shortly. The U.K. needs tourism. They need to learn how to profile better and screen less anyway IMO.