Vacation season is upon us, which means plenty of photographers will be hopping on planes. And while digital photographers won't even bat an eyelid, for those of us who shoot film – whether it's on 35mm film cameras or instant cameras – vacation season means one thing: don't let security put your film through the X-ray machine!
Yes, I know – whether or not airport scanners actually damage camera film is a decades-long-debated topic. While some folks merrily boast about taking endless stacks of film through scanners without incident, there are plenty of reports that airport scanners do in fact damage film.
