Is there anywhere one can buy X-ray film in the UK? Either cut down to 4x5 or in original boxes.
It is just that I do not know if there is a place locally with a darkroom and a guillotine so I can cut the film down myself.
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Is there anywhere one can buy X-ray film in the UK? Either cut down to 4x5 or in original boxes.
It is just that I do not know if there is a place locally with a darkroom and a guillotine so I can cut the film down myself.
You don't need a "darkroom"; you need a dark room. I use my laundry room, with a black t-shirt over the window, at night, and a $4 LED red light for a safelight. You will save the cost of a cheap rotary cutter with your first box of film.
I have been looking around but the best bet looks like getting it from the states... for some reason the UK suppliers are remarkably discreet about how much they charge but one where I did find a price was asking for over two hundred quid a box, which rather defeats the point of the exercise.
Neil
Neil,
depending on size of film, I can give a german source, but here we use the metric sizes.
And concerning darkroom - why not have a bit fun there while cutting film:-)
Ritchie
Hi Plaubel,
Being lazy, I'm looking at the Agfa Green 8x10 (20x25cm) which I'll have to cut down to my 4x5 slides. US prices on a well-known auction site are around thirty dollars for a box of a hundred, but about the same for postage.
Seems a bit silly to have to get it from the States when it starts a lot nearer home.
Neil
edit: perhaps FotoImpex are missing a trick here...
Yes, I went and checked Ebay UK earlier today, and all of the vendors of xray film were American! That's strange, isn't it?
Sorry, Neil Barnacle, I was talking to Neil Purling; my mistake.
Neil P. asked for buying in UK, and this is just a jump from germany...
Barnacle Neil, Impex ,Maco and other photo-stuff dealers do not sell Xray in germany.
No, that isn't the whole truth : Hans Mahn CoKG has sold the Xray film worldwide, but almost to countries like India, Afrika and so on.
If they do it today? I don't know. Of course not in small demands, and not to private persons.
But if Ilford and others don't offer film anymore, you can expect that Maco will sell xray as a fantastic photographic film :-)
I always have to buy from medical-stuff dealers, and a lot of them are not willing to sale at private persons. A few are willing...
Ritchie
In the US X-ray film is usually bought from medical sources, not photographic suppliers.
Ritchie, no worries - both Neil P and I are in the UK, so the same issues apply to both of us. I mentioned Impex because I'm fairly regularly in Berlin (and planning on retiring near there, in the next few years) and so have access.
There are medical suppliers in the UK but as I mentioned, the prices are not cheap. My whole intent for x-ray is experimentation, so £0.10 a sheet of 5x4 (cut down from 10x8) makes it worth the wait from the States, I think. I just grudge paying as much for the postage as the film, even though the film is cheap!
Neil
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Then you could use one of the german medical sources.
Do you have a german base/adress for shipping reasons?