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

#2 of 2 scratch in image upper left is on my AN. Same everything. Something different is drying...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/8...5ea9a161_b.jpg

Is Kodak 8X10 Film CSG1 Green X-Ray Film single or double sided. My mind is spinning from too much information, and cannot put my finger on this answer. Thank you.

PS-- and about corners--square or round?

to repeat,
I am using kodak CSG from CSXonline.com double sided at 80 asa, not stripping.

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Originally Posted by HT Finley

Is Kodak 8X10 Film CSG1 Green X-Ray Film single or double sided. My mind is spinning from too much information, and cannot put my finger on this answer. Thank you.

PS-- and about corners--square or round?

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Almost done testing. This is really a test of my Levy copy camera film size potential. The image is made of two 8X10 X-Ray Kodak CSG taped inside the camera to make a 10X16" negative.

You notice the odd patterns top and bottom are camera internal edges. This mean I can easily shoot 11X14!

Now I need to buy more X-Ray...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7311/8...e9b33c24_b.jpg

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Originally Posted by Randy Moe

to repeat,
I am using kodak CSG from CSXonline.com double sided at 80 asa, not stripping.

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Thank you. My first 6 hours on here and I'm to p85 of the thread.Helpful, but not definitive abundantly. Not sorry I read it though. I've named 8X10 Kodak Film CSG1 Green X-Ray Film, because of the fact I'll be doing either tray or color drum and rotating base, probably with pyro. And the price of 46.47$ is attractive at this site:
http://cheapxrayfilm.com/category/80-kodak-csg-1.aspx
Certainly not naming it as final choice, but still would prefer single sided, if at all possible. Randy Moe, your input is valued, as it shows up with some amouint of prominence, therefor credibility. I wounder how round that round corner are? Round corners can make your 8x10 neg into 7x9 prints pretty quick.
The process seems to yield results I could live with the rest of my life, I believe. fSomewhere the absurdity of 5 million dollars per shutter-click with pan film has to stop. I'm not a rich man.

You can see the round corners in most of my full image scans. You lose a tiny bit.

I am very new at this and by no means an expert in anything photographic.

http://www.cxsonline.com/ has it for $38.25 plus cheap shipping. I have bought from twice and it comes real quick.

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Originally Posted by HT Finley

Thank you. My first 6 hours on here and I'm to p85 of the thread.Helpful, but not definitive abundantly. Not sorry I read it though. I've named 8X10 Kodak Film CSG1 Green X-Ray Film, because of the fact I'll be doing either tray or color drum and rotating base, probably with pyro. And the price of 46.47$ is attractive at this site:
http://cheapxrayfilm.com/category/80-kodak-csg-1.aspx
Certainly not naming it as final choice, but still would prefer single sided, if at all possible. Randy Moe, your input is valued, as it shows up with some amouint of prominence, therefor credibility. I wounder how round that round corner are? Round corners can make your 8x10 neg into 7x9 prints pretty quick.
The process seems to yield results I could live with the rest of my life, I believe. fSomewhere the absurdity of 5 million dollars per shutter-click with pan film has to stop. I'm not a rich man.

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Thanks. Having done nothing at all so far, I am leaning toward Kodak CSG 1, even though its 10 or 15 dollars higher. Single sided, if at all possible. Seems like something like that shot with the most yellow filter you can get your hands on, developed in pyro, would make you never miss pan film again. Full pan doesn't have to be EVERYTHING. I'm not Gates or Buffett over here.

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Originally Posted by Ian Greenhalgh

Apologies if this has been asked before but 87 pages is a lot to trawl through!

Has anyone played with coloured filters and the blue senstive film? I am interested in enhancing skies giving more contrast between the clouds and sky as I often get skies that are almost plain white when using blue sensitive Kodak Industrex MX125.

http://forum.mflenses.com/userpix/20...60001WEB_1.jpg

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Ansel Adams says in his book "The Negative" that no color filters are useful with blue sensitive films. Perhaps a polarizer?

Cheers for the tip, I'll try a polariser. It wasn't as misty as that to the naked eye, the blue sensitive film seems to make any haze look thicker.

Ian, if you will go back on this forum, you will find the spectrographs for bot the so-called blue film and the green film. If you check that, you will see that both of these films are orthochromatic, the blue less so than the green, but both are modifiable by filters. Now real "blue'film, like lithographic film, and copy film is only able to differentiate the uv and blue end of the spectrum. There is also an ortho-lith film that Freestyle, and others sell, that is mildly orthochromatic.