In Reply to: Next year's best audio tweak! posted by Charles Hansen on March 16, 2007 at 19:33:25:
This raises a concern about richoceting RFI.As a film shooting photographer, I travel a lot, frequently having to get film past the TSA folks in airports. I don't want them to scan my film because unused film from previous trips is in the mix. If I kept running the film through scanners, it would eventually fog from accumulative exposure. I get hassled when I ask for a hand check of a hundred rolls at a time.
So clever manufacturers devised these lead foil lined bags that people could stuff their film in so it could ride the conveyors through the x-ray scanners.
Not a good idea.
What was found is that film fogs quicker in the bags. Some x-rays still get inside the bags, then bounce around off the inside foil, passing through the film many times. Its like a shootout in a John Wayne western, except that eveybody gets hit many times over.
If you have a wireless internet broadcaster in your house, maybe this paint isn't a good thing.
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Follow Ups
- Here's a photography analogy. - free.ranger 08:13:55 03/17/07 (2)
- Actually, - markrohr 13:20:30 03/17/07 (0)
- Re: Here's a photography analogy. - Charles Hansen 11:52:36 03/17/07 (0)