So, massive thread revival (
@ianbarber for interest)... there's a thread on Photrio about the effects of new airport hand luggage scanners that seem to be updated versions of the CT-type scanners already used for hold luggage. The thread is quite long and mostly seems to consist of people saying, does anyone know if this is real? This post does include some actual evidence though:
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/new-airport-scanners.170709/page-5#post-2240260 . Interestingly, there's at least one person who sounds quite qualified (Physics degree, studied CT etc) claiming that CT scanners don't fog, they show typically curved regularly spaced artefacts. Hasn't showed up since this evidence AFAICS.
There's a lot of discussion about asking for hand inspections, and the chances of refusal (allegedly high in the UK, variable in the US). Some folk taking a 3200 ISO film with them to bolster their argument. Some concern about hand inspection of sheet film (risk of agents opening boxes!)
Apparently LHR gets these scanners 2022, Schiphol (AMS) already has them. Some other evidence shown for "serious damage" looks like very marginal fogging to me, but what do I know.
I'm not a Photrio member, got alerted via a tweet. I did tweet Analogue Wonderland to ask if they'd had any overseas consignments reported with problems (since a possible strategy is to post your film to destination and back again). They responded:
"No - but we're making some amends to our packaging in the coming weeks in anticipation of stronger customs tests in the future. Better safe than sorry!"
Not sure that's addressing the same problem!