Use of X-ray film: technical discussion with example images

INDUSTREX Film

https://www.carestream.com/en/us/non...industrex-film

5X7 X-Ray Bargain

Fresh in date film

ZZ sells 7X17" 2X 100 sheets for $53 plus shipping

I cut into 300-5X7" 2X films making my cost 25 cents per 5X7 sheet

I assume $53 film, $22 shipping = $75

I cut one sheet at a time, and only what I need at the moment

The 2X7" leftover has many uses, including testing fixer clear time

or make a pinhole pano

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Originally Posted by michael_wi

Do you have a source for thus film that massively cheaper than a buck a sheet? Please share! If nothing else, it would make a great light leak tester for my holder, Haven't been able to shoot, so I know they developed leaks to get back at me.....

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hard to say which specific film they're repackaging, but it's double sided orthochromatic, so fuji hr-u green would be similar but at a more useful 50-100 iso. i've bought from these guys before. https://www.ebay.ca/sch/xrayexpress/...1&_ipg=&_from= a box of 10x12 would give you 600 4x5 sheets at 8 cents each.

Here in Europe we only have 18x24cm mammo single sided films. Where do you buy your 8x10 mammo films?
Thx in advance,

Maybe nowhere

I got a camera to match

X-Ray future may be only https://www.labtesting.com/services/...ay-inspection/

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Originally Posted by Philippe Grunchec

Here in Europe we only have 18x24cm mammo single sided films. Where do you buy your 8x10 mammo films?
Thx in advance,

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Kodak T-mat G/RA 18x24cm expired 2017 and cutted down to 4x5. Exposed at 100 ASA. Developed with Rodinal 1+100 semi-stand for 45 minutes. Symmar-S 210mm. Castanea sativa in Sotoparada - León (Spain)

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...59173b7257.jpg

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Originally Posted by Philippe Grunchec

Here in Europe we only have 18x24cm mammo single sided films. Where do you buy your 8x10 mammo films?
Thx in advance,

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In Poland, you will buy a 2-sided
https://sklep.emtim.pl/blony-super-r...00sz,3,842,466

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Originally Posted by fotna

In Poland, you will buy a 2-sided
https://sklep.emtim.pl/blony-super-r...00sz,3,842,466

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In fact you can also get:
https://sklep.emtim.pl/blony-do-mamm...ztuk,3,839,413
which is, BTW, the one I use! But I'm looking for 8x10"!

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Originally Posted by Philippe Grunchec

Here in Europe we only have 18x24cm mammo single sided films. Where do you buy your 8x10 mammo films?
Thx in advance,

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I have been buying 18x24cm Mammo film here and there on Ebay for lower money. And 18x24cm Sinar Norma era film holders :) I have 600 sheets on hand. I'm setting up an 8x10 Kodak Hard Rubber Basket line for processing. Going to start with DK-50 'cause that is what I have in quantity, along with the replenisher. Should make nice RC VC contact print work prints for starters. I followed Tim Layton's lead and made a variable contrast light source that fits my large Multigrade filters. Split printing these XRAY negs will be fun.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...694d0ed3_c.jpgDarkroom Renovation Phase II 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9bb6948f_c.jpgSinar Norma 18x24 Lisco Holders XRAY by Nokton48, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5123a533_c.jpgVC Contact Printing Source by Nokton48, on Flickr

The first X-ray film I got was via Forum members. This is medical stuff. Then I got a huge amount of Foma Indux R4 4x5, this is industrial use film.
It seems to be 6 ASA at best. I am still not altogether sure of that because then I was shooting at around 2:00pm on a winter's day (January) & the sun was already low.
I think that I have the right development time...
A non-colour sensitive film does not seem to have a fixed 'speed'. I'm thinking approx 3 ASA when the sun is low, as it was that January day. Then maybe as high as 10 ASA at mid-day in the summer months.
It makes a shoot interesting. Thank goodness landscapes don't move.