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Protect film from airport X-rays.(Travel alert)(Brief Article)
If you're planning holiday air travel, you'll need to pack carefully to protect photographic film from the new X-ray scanners now in place in nearly all U.S. airports. The scanners, minivansized, use high-powered X-rays to screen checked luggage for explosives.
"If unprocessed film goes through," says James Blamphin, a Kodak spokesman, "it will be damaged--I'm not hedging here." The X-ray damage can mean that when you expose the film, prints will be marred with bands of fog or pronounced streaking (see the photo at left). The damage can't be corrected. Film inside a camera isn't safe, either.
By contrast, film stowed in carry-on luggage is safe as long as it isn't scanned more than five times, Blamphin says. The scanners that X-ray carry-on luggage use a lower ...
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