Cameras and x rays

[Hobbes]

If I keep my digital camera in my hand luggage, do I need to take the memory card out before I send it through the x ray machine? (Sorry if its a really thick question, not sure how memory cards work) What about if I check my camera in my suitcase?-I know those x ray machines are more powerful

 

[Lizzy Lemon]

We had both of our cameras in our hand luggage and it went through the screening process with memory cards in them without a problem. We are just in the process of sorting through the 5,600 photos we took!

 

[Hobbes]

We had both of our cameras in our hand luggage and it went through the screening process with memory cards in them without a problem. We are just in the process of sorting through the 5,600 photos we took!

Agh! 5600, really? I'm hoping to take less with a digital cos I can delete anything that isn't perfect. Thanks for the speedy reply though.

 

[wayneg]

Agh! 5600, really? I'm hoping to take less with a digital cos I can delete anything that isn't perfect. Thanks for the speedy reply though.

They easily mount up, we just did Vegas/LA for 9 nights but with travelling only 7 days of photos, took almost 2,000. We just throw them all on laptop every evening then sort out when we get back to UK, easier than going thru them all on holiday. Mine go thru Xray anything upto 20 times a year never had a problem.

 

[Lizzy Lemon]

DH bought some gadget that he downloaded the photos onto daily, he used to delete photos at the time if they were not 100% to his satisfaction but he found one day that the pictures we took after weren't quite framing properly so he never risks it now. A lot of our photos were duplicated as both of us were snapping away, we sometimes got the back of peoples heads if we didn't take it fast enough or sometimes we tried using flash and the same picture without so there is a lot of editing to do. About half the phots are not usuable due to having a teenager in our party who didn't always want his picture taken and looks extremely sulky!

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

as I take my laptop for communication, I download my pictures to that then burn a copy to a DVD, so that short of losing ALL my luggage and possesions I have at least one backup set of photos.

 

[dee slack]

Agh! 5600, really? I'm hoping to take less with a digital cos I can delete anything that isn't perfect.

we had 412 AFTER deleting poor/duplicates and we were only in DL Paris for 2 days and a few hours - and there's only the 2 of us!! Heaven knows how many we'll have after 17 days in Florida!!!!

We've never had any problems with our cards from going thru' security with them either in or out of the camera.