Bill,
I will always take the film out of the containers and put it in the ziplock
bag mentioned numerous times.
Out of lots & lots of trips within the US, I've never failed to get a
friendly hand inspection. In the DFW airport they generally poke an
explosives sniffer in the ziplock, but that process only delays you for a
minute or so unless you've got those cool
hand-grenade-that-looks-like-Kodachrome devices.
Never been through CDG, but the customs folks at Houston Intercontinental
get my Lazy Surly Moron vote.
Dave
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Garth Wood
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:53 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Protecting film while traveling
At 11:37 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, Bill Barber wrote:
I will be taking a 10 or 12 day trip this summer and will be taking several
domestic flights going and coming. What suggestions might list members have
about traveling with exposed and unexposed film and going through the
security systems at the airport?
On my recent trip to France, I put all of my film into a ziplock bag (after
removing them from their containers), and then asked for hand-inspection of
said film. Everywhere I went, this request was honoured, *except* for the
return flight from Charles de Gaulle to Toronto (the final leg from Toronto
to Edmonton was okay). The inspectors at CDG treat a request for hand
inspection like an insult to the Power and Glory That Is France. So, even
though my film went through four security checkpoints, it only got x-rayed
once. To date, I can detect no problems with the exposed slides. Mind you,
I think inspectors at CDG are lazy, surly morons...
Garth
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