[LargeFormat] A new departure

[Brock Nanson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brick" <jim@visualimpressions.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>; <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] A new departure


| At 08:20 PM 3/7/2002 -0800, Brock Nanson wrote:
|
| >Now I use the lead bags and
| >don't bother asking for the hand inspection.  Sure, they might pump up
the
| >power to see into the bag, but hopefully the shielding will be of some
use.
|
|
| The hand check x-ray units are set and calibrated. They cannot "pump up
the
| power."
|
| Now the checked baggage units... that's another story. They can crank up
| the power. Never put film in checked baggage. Especially not in lead bags.
| If your luggage goes through a checked baggage x-ray unit (not all baggage
| does) and the operator cannot see through the lead bag, he/she'll cook
| everything in your luggage in order to see through anything opaque.
|
| Jim

Perhaps not pump it up, but the security people will tend to leave the bag
in place for a while, thus adding to the exposure!  Probably should have
been more exact in my terminology ;-)

Brock