X-Rays

[bruno106a]

I'm going on holiday soon,I was wondering if I took my camera do I sent it through the X-Ray machine or put it in the tray at the airport :shrug:

 

[Alastair]

Double-wrap in aluminum foil then seal with cling-film. Make sure to do the lenses seperately.


Or you could search for 1,001 previous threads on the subject - it goes through the scanner with everything else

 

[Tringa]

Not sure exactly what you mean by - do you send it through the X ray machine or put it in the tray at the airport. The trays go through the X ray machines.

If your camera is digital then the X ray machines at airports will have no effect.
I have my camera in a rucksack of hand luggage it just goes in the tray and through the machine with no problem.

If you are using film then it can be fogged by X rays.

Dave

PS Just thought Andy, do you mean do cameras have to be put through the X ray machine separately, like laptops? If so, then, no, just leave them in a bag. Once, at Luton, my rucksack with the camera was opened and everything swabbed, but usually there is no problem. I think I was just unlucky then to get a spot check.

 

[rc_hammer]

If you are using film then it can be fogged by X rays.

Dave

What Dave says is true but I understand the X-Ray dosage in modern machines is very low that only putting film through multiple times will have any effect. Some airports in third-world countries may have machines with higher dosages though.

I remember there used to be the option of having films hand-searched but not sure these days.

 

[Bristolian]

If you are using film then it can be fogged by X rays.

Dave

Not really, airport X-ray machines have been film safe for at least 30 years now. Since 1980 I must have made five hundred flights carrying film either in my hold or carry-on baggage and never had a single occurance of the film being affected by the screening machine.

 

[Siilver]

Just try and look at the screen as it goes through, as it will look cool

 

[Deleted member 21335]

Just try and look at the screen as it goes through, as it will look cool

This is true! Mines been through a few times and swabbed once. Think I was just a random spot check.

 

[viv1969]

Double-wrap in aluminum foil then seal with cling-film. Make sure to do the lenses seperately.


Or you could search for 1,001 previous threads on the subject - it goes through the scanner with everything else

Wouldn't simply not answering have been a better option?

 

[Alastair]

Wouldn't simply not answering have been a better option?

Possibly, but there are some questions that common sense tells you probably aren't unique. And we aren't in Talk Basics here, so I don't need to go the whole GCFH-thing.

 

[Nod]

Not sure exactly what you mean by - do you send it through the X ray machine or put it in the tray at the airport. The trays go through the X ray machines.

If your camera is digital then the X ray machines at airports will have no effect.
I have my camera in a rucksack of hand luggage it just goes in the tray and through the machine with no problem.

If you are using film then it can be fogged by X rays.

Dave

PS Just thought Andy, do you mean do cameras have to be put through the X ray machine separately, like laptops? If so, then, no, just leave them in a bag. Once, at Luton, my rucksack with the camera was opened and everything swabbed, but usually there is no problem. I think I was just unlucky then to get a spot check.

This echoes my experiences 100%.

Yes, film CAN end up getting fogged if it's high ISO (800 or above IIRC) and gets nuked several times but I have used rolls that have been back and forth through European airports several times with no problem whatsoever (400 ISO).

 

[bruno106a]

Thanks for your answers kind people, need to know these things as i never taken a camera digital or otherwise with me abroad and its the first time I've owned a DSLR.
P.S If more than one of you had said wrap everything up in tin foil and cling film it wouldn't have been going this time either.
pps what is the GCFC- thing

 

[Bluekwack]

Double-wrap in aluminum foil then seal with cling-film. Make sure to do the lenses seperately.


i think if you double wrap it aluminium you are asking for trouble with the border control, you will be pulled over and asked why you did that and what have you got to hide

 

[hollis_f]

i think if you double wrap it aluminium you are asking for trouble with the border control, you will be pulled over and asked why you did that and what have you got to hide

Well, I've never had any problem at all with border control.

Now look down.







It was a joke!

 

[Suvv]

I put my digital camera through the scanner at Ljubljana Airport and it ruined some of my pictures



They were out of focus, blurry, the wrong colours and on some the horizon had tilted :shrug:

 

[malo50]

I put my digital camera through the scanner at Ljubljana Airport and it ruined some of my pictures

They were out of focus, blurry, the wrong colours and on some the horizon had tilted :shrug:

LOL

 

[RJL2005]

I put my digital camera through the scanner at Ljubljana Airport and it ruined some of my pictures



They were out of focus, blurry, the wrong colours and on some the horizon had tilted :shrug:

Brilliant