Metal Detectors...need help
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pookie_old
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Re: Metal Detectors...need help
Not a problem, but it's always best to avoid the x-ray machines and ask for a hand search, specify video equipment.
Not a problem, but it's always best to avoid the x-ray machines and ask for a hand search, specify video equipment.
pookie_old
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Re: Metal Detectors...need help
Sadly the tightened security has made travel more time consuming, but you can "always" demand a hand search for photo/video equipment.
It adds time, but can always be done, by every airline.
Sadly the tightened security has made travel more time consuming, but you can "always" demand a hand search for photo/video equipment.
It adds time, but can always be done, by every airline.
Re: Metal Detectors...need help
My DVX (and "exposed" tapes) has gone through quite a few X-ray machines. No worries.
My DVX (and "exposed" tapes) has gone through quite a few X-ray machines. No worries.
Re: Metal Detectors...need help
i travel roughly 10-15 times yearly with my cameras in tow...and ill relay my experiences
most of the time, my request for a hand inspection is not honored. DV tapes, so im told, MUST go through the scanners to be permitted past security checkpoints. I have never had any lost footage from the scanners, and now I never ask for a hand inspection, as everything ive ever put through one of these scanners has come out perfectly.
Ive had bad experiences with hand inspection. On more then one instance, ive had to ask security to handle my camera equipment with care. I had a security officer TAP on my fisheye lens with his pen. Needles to say, I just let my equipment go straight through the scanner. 50% of the time, due to all the electronics in the bag, it gets an extra hand inspection anyway
i travel roughly 10-15 times yearly with my cameras in tow...and ill relay my experiences
most of the time, my request for a hand inspection is not honored. DV tapes, so im told, MUST go through the scanners to be permitted past security checkpoints. I have never had any lost footage from the scanners, and now I never ask for a hand inspection, as everything ive ever put through one of these scanners has come out perfectly.
Ive had bad experiences with hand inspection. On more then one instance, ive had to ask security to handle my camera equipment with care. I had a security officer TAP on my fisheye lens with his pen. Needles to say, I just let my equipment go straight through the scanner. 50% of the time, due to all the electronics in the bag, it gets an extra hand inspection anyway