We have all been hearing about the damage that the new airport CT Scanners can do the film and it has made me more apprehensive to travel through airports with a film scanner. Traditional x-ray machines are fine for films under 800 speed and I have frequently sent films through them with no visible effect.
Recently I was going on a work trip to Dublin and leaving from London City airport where they had just announced they were now fully using CT Scanners. You know it is a CT Scanner as you no longer need to take electronics out of your bag or liquids.
Thus I figured there was only one way I’m ever going to find out for myself what these CT scanners do to film. Thus I took one roll of fresh Kodak Ultramax 400 and one roll of fresh Ilford HP5 Plus on the trip with me and let them go through the CT Scanner. On the return trip they came back through a normal x-ray machine.
I want to be clear here, this is not a scientific, controlled and monitored experiment. Just me wondering how the films would turn out. I shot both films in my Olympus OM4Ti and left it on automatic metering.
I am going to make no further comment and just post most of the images here for you to make your own mind up. These are as received from the lab scans and I have made no further tweaks. The one thing I will point out is for the Ilford film as I was shooting indoors it was at wider apertures. These are all test shots, so excuse the out of focus and crap compositions, I just wanted to finish the films to see what if anything the CT Scanner did.
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