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Worried about your film?

If you travel on aircraft and take photographic film with you, new security measures mean you should take extra care to protect the film from X-rays. Kodak now has some online advice on what to do. Similar precautions are necessary for memory cards used for digital cameras, by the way -- even when sending them through the mail. (Airport security may not like some bags marketed to protect against X-rays, so keep that in mind too.)

New York Times followup note: I sometimes link to articles at the New York Times Web site, which requires free registration to read articles. You might like to know that the NYT has recently started asking for more information from registrants, in order to target ads at them more precisely. If you're leery of that sort of thing and would prefer not to disclose so much, you have two options if you really want to read something I've referenced:

1. Submit false information to the NYT in order to preserve your privacy. (I have occasionally registered at Web sites with the names of various different wild animals, for instance.)
2. E-mail me about the article I've linked to, and I can send you a copy.

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