[LRflex] Re: Kodachrome

  • From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:32:05 -0500

On 20-Dec-10 12:57 PM, Richard Ward wrote:
> "How do you send film to Dwayne's without it being X-rayed these
> days?"
>
> Hello Friends,
>     it's not possible to speak 'scientifically' about this - I'm neither a 
> Postal
>
Richard, Herman,
    Thanks for the replies.
    It looks like I'll be OK as long as it goes by truck.
The difficulty is if it goes by air just because they are so busy
during the holidays.  There are no requirements for freight
airplanes, but 100% of checked baggage has to be x-rayed.
about 40% of air freight goes in passenger airplanes, but
isn't covered by the same laws.  It's proposed to make them
apply to everything.  Small packages aren't the issue,
apparently it's whole containers, the machines are huge.
I did find one surprise, if film is x-rayed for real, it
can be ruined, even if it is rather slow film.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/tib/tib5201.shtml

I had read that Galen Rowell had had some Kodachrome 25
ruined in transit but I wasn't sure that would be possible,
But looking at the film in the Kodak link, it seems possible.

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