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I took this photo of my friend Daryl was taken in Lanzhou with an M6

50mm Elmar - he is holding his... The room is an artists studio. The

people his assistants. We were being entertained in the way only

Chinese artists can. Out of interest you will see the effects of

xrays in the lower 1/3. I had 12/25 films affected eventhough they

were in a foil bag!

Scanned with my new Ls40 scanner so will post some more from this

trip.

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The lighting worked very well to highlight your friend - very good. As for the x-ray damage, it doesn't pay anymore to use a lead-lined bag. If the scanners can't see inside such an object they increase the power until they can. Most airports have warnings that film inside checked luggage will be damaged. Either try to process it on location or take it on the carryon luggage.
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agred on the latter inspection. Wash., DC airport, after exposure, way home. I had a single roll of 3200 120 film, 2 rolls of 120 400 film (I had passed some lower speed stuff through my carryons). They hand-checked the 3200, but the 400 was sent through the carry-on thingie, and 400 120 film was possibly more easily fogged (no metal cover). I got some printable stuff, but with markings.

 

Does uncanisterized film (medium or large format), do less well, or was I just unlucky? Seems as though they would.

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Charles,<br><br>

 

Great light. However, XRay fogging is typically fairly uniform darkening of the negative.<br><br>

 

That bright spot at the bottom of the photo looks like the results of a film scanner gone awry.<Br><br>

 

I had the same problems using a Polaroid Sprintscanner 35. To this day I still have no idea why those underexposed bands appeared.<br><Br>

 

Here's an uninspired photograph showing my version of the effect. Notice the green channel overwhelming that part of the picture.<br><br>

 

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