drgoose
1-May-2014, 08:53
I travel a lot for work and I recently started taking LF camera and film with me. Normally I have the unexposed box of film hand inspected by TSA, they do the swabbing thing and I am on my merry way. Today I had an overzealous guy insist that they needed to open the box to inspected and after a little back and forth his supervisor came over and said that all she needed to do was swab it like usual.
Today she also decided to wand the box with a magnetometer and the stupid box kept beeping so I finally said that it was ok to x ray it since the other option was to leave the film or have them open the box. First a little tid bit of information that I did not know, THE CORNERS OF THE ARISTA EDU 400 ULTRA BOX HAS METAL CORNERS!!!! so I ended up looking like and idiot and the box was x rayed.
My question is if I should just trash that film, should I shoot one sheet and develop it and assume that if that one is ok the rest will be OK or should I just use it and assume that TSA is telling the truth and that because it is ISO 400 it will not be affected by the x ray machine?
Thanks in advance.
Today she also decided to wand the box with a magnetometer and the stupid box kept beeping so I finally said that it was ok to x ray it since the other option was to leave the film or have them open the box. First a little tid bit of information that I did not know, THE CORNERS OF THE ARISTA EDU 400 ULTRA BOX HAS METAL CORNERS!!!! so I ended up looking like and idiot and the box was x rayed.
My question is if I should just trash that film, should I shoot one sheet and develop it and assume that if that one is ok the rest will be OK or should I just use it and assume that TSA is telling the truth and that because it is ISO 400 it will not be affected by the x ray machine?
Thanks in advance.