Travelling with a digital?

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Hi - I joined this forum quite a while back but apart from the introductory message haven't posted anything until now. But at last I have a question!

I'm no stranger to photography, having been taking pictures since the sixties. But I'm having to re-learn a lot because I got tired of struggling to find film, chemicals, paper etc, and have just bought a digital SLR, A Nikon D7000 and two AF-S lenses.

In the past I had issues with film being fogged by airport X-ray machines and as a result always carried exposed film on my person rather than in my baggage. But I'm wondering if there are any problems with a digital camera; is there any chance of electronics, in particular the sensor, being affected by X-ray machines? Do you guys let your kit go through the machine or do you kick up a fuss and have it hand-searched?
 
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no issues at all....
I'm actually out on hols with my SLR now which came out in hand luggage.
This year I've done 39 flights so far (I know :( ) and on almost all of them I've had a digi camera with me, either a compact or my SLR.
 
I am quite regularly flying and both my Compact Kodak and my Olympus DSLR both go through the Xray machine with no issues.

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Ste
 
Your DSLR will be fine. Just put it through the X-Ray scanner with everything else.
 
Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America, Egypt, all with hand luggage full of various camera kit and not once been stopped.
 
Modern airport X-ray scanners are far lower powered than they used to be and I've never read of any sensors being damaged by them. IIRC, some SanDisk cards specifically state they are x-ray safe. Even film can go through several times, although I might be a bit wary with high ISO emulsions. I know that 400 ISO can go through several times with no problem.

I have had my camera bag manually checked after the scan twice. Once, they swabbed every piece of kit in there for explosives and the other, it was just a manual check. I would never kick up a fuss at any security check, especially at an airport, since I'm alergic to the snap of rubber gloves!
 
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