charles_curry_hyde Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yance_marti Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panyitu Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 A useful way to avoid x-ray is to carry films in a separate bag and include some very high speed film, which allows you for a hand inspection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_ngo1 Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Sometimes that works, but these days it may not work. The security person may tell you to run it through the machine anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacey_smith4 Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron_l Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 your 400 speed film got fogged from the x-ray and you carried it on? are you sure it didn't happen from handling it? i've never heard of fogging on 400 speed film that didn't get scanned inside of luggage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward_kang Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 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> <a href=http://www.nd.edu/~ekang/photography/hellyeah-purdue/neon.jpg> foo </a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_curry_hyde Posted March 22, 2003 Author Share Posted March 22, 2003 Thanks for the comments. The fogging was definitely on the film - it is on the contact sheet.I should stress that I did 2 short hops between regional Chinese Airports with a regional airline and a charter. The Age (local newspaper) have had exactly the same type of fogging from xray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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