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Old 27th November 2020, 02:46 PM
Mike O'Pray Mike O'Pray is offline
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A long thread on this has already run on Photrio but then went dormant. Then Covid -19 intervened so possibly any action by the film makers or the scanner manufacturers has been in suspension. However reading between the lines I get the impression that Ilford for one does not have the muscle to change things and nor do the others quite frankly.

So I think we are stuck with scanners that will ruin or is very likely to ruin film. The easy solution is hand searches but again the requestors of this have to have enough muscle to persuade airports to introduce such searches.

Unless the prevailing terrorist scenario were to calm down a lot then the easy way out is to say that machines never sleep, get tired or careless while staff can and do, so the risks of hand-searches are too great.

This is the safe and easy way out for the authorities and while film may be reviving I do not believe it has revived anything like enough for enough people to kick up a big enough fuss to make a difference

Mike
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