In Reply to: taking films over to be developed posted by jiku on Sunday, 14. November 2004 at 19:16 Bali Time:
Don't put film in checked luggage! Since September 11, many airports are using baggage scanners that combine x-ray and CAT technology (e.g., InVision CTX-5000). If the initial scan, harmless to most film, detects anything "suspicious", a second, high-energy scan is triggered, and this will fog even slower speed films. I always carry my film and ask for it to be hand checked, even though it is sometimes a hassle and even though I never use anything faster than ISO 800. (David Attenbourough famously lost several weeks of nature film footage from a documentary he was filming in New Guinea, when it was scanned.)Here is some information:
http://www.i3a.org/x-ray.html