Entries with tag "vacation"

How surprising, to be frustrated by airport security personnel

Posted on November 12, 2005 at 7:13 AM in 'Dear Diary' with tags 'travel, vacation, scotland, airport, photography, film, holga'

Although the medium format film I brought along for the Holga is ASA 400, I've been requesting that they inspect it by hand just to be sure it wouldn't be fogged by the X-ray machines. I've read people mention that they'd had film damaged despite the airlines' assurance that anything below ASA 800 is safe. If it were just one or two rolls, I'd have taken the risk, but this is 15 rolls — something like $35 worth of film, so I figured that just to be safe, I'd ask them to inspect it by hand.

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