Excellent advice. I just got back from a trip to Tokyo. As you may know, Polaroid has no official presence in Japan, so I had to pack all my film for my I-2, the only camera I brought. I had no problem getting TSA to hand inspect it. I had all my film in an old Pelican case as carry on. So it was easy to access. I simply asked politely. “I have unexposed photographic film I need hand inspected, please.” It took some extra time, as they swabbed each box (I had about 30 boxes) individually with a wand that had some sort of pad on it, a chemical “sniffer” if you will. I agree - get to the airport with extra time. I got there with a couple hours to spare. It will make your life easier and far less stressful, plus will assure you’re relaxed and calm. I’m certain if you’re stressed, agitated, and demanding because you’re in a rush to catch your flight, all sorts of red flags are going to go up with TSA. Not good. Enjoy your trip to London. I had a blast there a couple years ago! 😁
One thing that always intrigues and bugs me. So the only way to shoot Polaroid film (or any film) perfectly fine and healthy is if you buy it in The Netherlands, in the city of the factory? Otherwise the film already travelled a long way to the customer country. And for example, If I buy it from a US store (B&H or else) it will have to do a second long trip to my country (Brazil). And I imagine that to do all those export procedures, the films have also had to go through some scanners for security at departure and at destination. So, you buy it and use it in the Netherlands, or all films on other continents are all ruined at some degree?
This is true but also not really and issue as film travels without much inspection from store to user and the radiation from plane travel at altitude is also not huge- it’s the new 3D scanners that are causing a lot of problems!
But would be great to one day take a very fresh film at the factory or at a store in Enschede and shoot to really see what a very fresh and intact film looks like.@@FIGITALREVOLUTION
Excellent advice.
I just got back from a trip to Tokyo. As you may know, Polaroid has no official presence in Japan, so I had to pack all my film for my I-2, the only camera I brought.
I had no problem getting TSA to hand inspect it. I had all my film in an old Pelican case as carry on. So it was easy to access. I simply asked politely. “I have unexposed photographic film I need hand inspected, please.” It took some extra time, as they swabbed each box (I had about 30 boxes) individually with a wand that had some sort of pad on it, a chemical “sniffer” if you will.
I agree - get to the airport with extra time. I got there with a couple hours to spare. It will make your life easier and far less stressful, plus will assure you’re relaxed and calm. I’m certain if you’re stressed, agitated, and demanding because you’re in a rush to catch your flight, all sorts of red flags are going to go up with TSA. Not good.
Enjoy your trip to London. I had a blast there a couple years ago! 😁
Great advice , will follow this next month when we are off to Mauritius from Scotland 😎
you did top ~ Figital!🤙
Have a nice trip! I can't wait to see if you're going to catch a bit of the accent and local parlance 😉
One thing that always intrigues and bugs me. So the only way to shoot Polaroid film (or any film) perfectly fine and healthy is if you buy it in The Netherlands, in the city of the factory? Otherwise the film already travelled a long way to the customer country. And for example, If I buy it from a US store (B&H or else) it will have to do a second long trip to my country (Brazil). And I imagine that to do all those export procedures, the films have also had to go through some scanners for security at departure and at destination. So, you buy it and use it in the Netherlands, or all films on other continents are all ruined at some degree?
This is true but also not really and issue as film travels without much inspection from store to user and the radiation from plane travel at altitude is also not huge- it’s the new 3D scanners that are causing a lot of problems!
Ok. Great! I always hoped that's the case. That export shipments gets less and weakened scans. Thank you! Cheers!!@@FIGITALREVOLUTION
But would be great to one day take a very fresh film at the factory or at a store in Enschede and shoot to really see what a very fresh and intact film looks like.@@FIGITALREVOLUTION
Did you have any luck flying out of England and getting a hand check? Last I heard, they will not hand check film at Heathrow or Gatwick.
Will find out tomorrow-