home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!rjm
- From: rjm@cs.brown.edu (Ralph Marshall)
- Subject: Re: T-MAX fogged by x-ray machines??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.151335.1872@cs.brown.edu>
- Summary: Unfounded rumor alert!
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:13:35 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- In article <1993Jan12.135458.20004@sys.sweden.dg.com> robert@sys.sweden.dg.com (Robert Claeson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.013013.25176@src.dec.com>, jcollias@src.dec.com writes:
- [ Worried about airport X-ray damage to TMAX-400]
- >
- >Where was this? On a longer trip, I had a bag with many ISO 400, 800 and
- >1600 films sent through the X-ray machine not three, but eleven times.
- >I couldn't notice any fogging at all. This was completely within Europe,
- >though. X-ray machines may have higher radiation levels where you live.
-
- I purchased a few rolls of TMAX-3200 for a trip to London, and decided
- to heed the "Do Not X-Ray" notice on the box. I put all of my film in
- a small plastic bag which I handed to the security people, making
- their life easy enough to avoid complaining. When leaving Gatwick on
- the way back we found a machine which said "This machine will not harm
- film," which I ignored as usual. However, the guy insisted, so I let
- them do it. As I was waiting for the bags to come through, I noticed
- that the display monitors were in false color rather than the usual
- black and white.
-
- So the question is, do you suppose this was some sort of CAT-scan
- style system rather than X-rays? (This would of course cause no fogging.)
-
- Ralph Marshall
- rjm@cs.brown.edu
-