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

Lets see... it's 11:20pm here in Vancouver... aren't you in the am there? Are you a night owl, Stone?

Stone stays up later than I do and he's an hour later, EDT vs CDT.

30 years of night shift, is a hard habit to break, for me.

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Originally Posted by Andrew O'Neill

Lets see... it's 11:20pm here in Vancouver... aren't you in the am there? Are you a night owl, Stone?

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Originally Posted by Andrew O'Neill

Lets see... it's 11:20pm here in Vancouver... aren't you in the am there? Are you a night owl, Stone?

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Originally Posted by Randy Moe

Stone stays up later than I do and he's an hour later, EDT vs CDT.

30 years of night shift, is a hard habit to break, for me.

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Yea I'm definitely a night person...

well made. Contact print certainly looking better that scan on my poor monitor, but i like it.

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Originally Posted by photoevangelist

https://ycpi-farm8.staticflickr.com/...3854b7f4_c.jpg
Stephen by Lee Smathers, on Flickr

8x10 Korona, 12" Dagor, Fuji HR-A in Rodinal 1:100 (tanks and hangars) for 4 min.
8x10 Contact Print on Ilford MGFB Warmtone in Moersch ECO 4812 and MT1 Selenium Toner 1:10 for 5 min.

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Yesterday I've made 1 liter of D-23 developer. Caffenol is nice, but it's hard to see how developing is going and it takes 15 min to develop.
D-23 is transparent and it took only about 5-6min to develop.
Negative looks really nice, with dense highlights and almost completely clear shadows.
Should be nice for kallitype.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/1...17897885_o.jpg

http://u1.ipernity.com/40/52/05/3027...0f1f27.640.jpg

Out shooting some X-ray in the full sun! Seems to work pretty well. Very much so liking the Fuji Lens!

1897 Ak-sar-ben Camera - Fujinar 250mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray - Dektol 1+10 - Unaltered Negative Scan

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Originally Posted by ostrygad

well made. Contact print certainly looking better that scan on my poor monitor, but i like it.

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Thanks, I'm trying to stay away from scanning my black and white negatives this year. I'm forcing myself to do more wet prints.

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Originally Posted by grzybu

Yesterday I've made 1 liter of D-23 developer. Caffenol is nice, but it's hard to see how developing is going and it takes 15 min to develop.
D-23 is transparent and it took only about 5-6min to develop.
Negative looks really nice, with dense highlights and almost completely clear shadows.
Should be nice for kallitype.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/1...17897885_o.jpg

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I think this experiment was a great success! Where I grew up, (Hollywood) cameramen told me that any developer that brought out the subtle beauty of Greta Garbo is great stuff and it's called D-23!

Thanks :)
Yesterday I've tried another one with D-23 and I think I really like this developer. So easy to develop by inspection and it's quite fast, but not too fast so it's easy to see when to stop developing.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3780/1...52e2a729_o.jpg

Scan of Ektascan developed in very dilute pyrocat-hd. South Lawn Bld, at the recently closed down Riverview Hospital grounds.