topic x-rays in General Discussion

x-rays

Pozo — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:23:00 GMT

I will be taking a flight with my dslr and gear for the first time next week. My gear is a T3i, 3 canon lenses, and a couple Sandisk Extreme SD cards. Do I need to worry about x-rays at security damaging the gear or the info on the cards when I return?? I am pretty sure this is no issue but I wanted to ask the forum, because I'm sure people in the forum fly with dslr's all the time. I was going to take the battery out of the camera body but that is the only precaution I was planning on taking.

Thanks forum

Re: x-rays

cicopo — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:03:49 GMT

My cameras, memory cards & batteries have been through the airport X ray machines MANY times with zero problems.

Re: x-rays

ebiggs1 — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:44:03 GMT

I have heard of strong magnets doing damage but not x-rays. You are probably thinking of the film days when we did have to be careful with the film. Not the caameras, though.

Re: x-rays

Peter — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:13:04 GMT

The radiation from an airport x-ray machine during the time it takes to x-ray your camera is like three hours in an airplane at 10000 meters altitude. The x-ray machine for the checked bagage is stronger.