Mini-DV Tapes & XRAY Security Machines

bodaphoto

bodaphoto

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As I will be travelling to Peru this month, when I go through security and TSA gives me a prostate exam, will the XRAY machine in anyway affect my DVC tapes after I have recorded on them, or should I put them in x-ray proof bag like the one for film I have?  Just to have them swab it for explosives?
 
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This has been discussed before somewhere, but I can't find it.

In my opinion, the X-RAY machines don't have any effect on magnetic media (I've been travelling with my laptop for a few years, twice a week, and the harddrive still works).

That said, you can't go wrong with wrapping it into lead-lined film bag or aluminum foil. That will shield the content from some EM radiation that may be coming from various sources, making it more safe. It won't shield from a static magnetic field, though.
 
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I forgot to mention that I just came back from overseas with fifteen hours of footage, and I had one dropped frame. Since this is digital medium, dropouts would be the first thing to occur if airport X-Ray machines had any effect.
 
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[quote author=BLUESPIDER link=board=Events;num=1102618732;start=0#4 date=12/12/04 at 20:37:55]They will kill your brain cells and lower your sperm count.  :)[/quote]
Too late for that. :-/
 
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Thanks Mino.

DW, cool man. This is my third trip to Peru. I will be going again in June.
 
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Who was the President?

Our tickets were $600.00 a piece. We always take friends and stay in our house there. You are more than welcome to come.
 
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[quote author=D.W. Runyon link=board=Events;num=1102618732;start=0#11 date=12/13/04 at 14:06:29]I'm sure I've botched a bit of this, it's not a regular conversation piece here at the house. They dont tell about it easy because they frankly don't give a big **** about it, and my wife thinks people will suspect her of lying. Like I say, I knew her for about a decade, really closely, before I found out.
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D.W., this reminds me my aunt's story. I used to go there every summer when I was young, and only ten years after I came to Canada, I learned (from a book in a Toronto library!) that she was once married to a leading dissident writer in Czechoslovakia during communism. The guy spent eleven years as a political prisoner in uranium mines!

The idea to put your wife's mom's story on tape is excellent. I am also making a doc about my aunt, her husband, and how the family (and the society) dealt with having an 'undesirable' in the family.

It's powerful stuff, even today, fifty year later, people don't want to talk about it. It's part bitterness, part shame. There is this stigma that everyone collaborated a bit with a system that would lock up people for years just for having different opinion...
 
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