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

[Heespharm]

Bleaching one side of the emulsion isn't that hard, here I made a video tutorial for it.

https://youtu.be/S9WuGkhdjDQ

Good video ! Thanks... Does glass work well to tape down the negative to? Or would there be a problem with that...

[StoneNYC]

Good video ! Thanks... Does glass work well to tape down the negative to? Or would there be a problem with that...

Glass is actually BETTER, I just don't have any large sheets of glass bigger than 11x14 to tape them to, but yes glass or plexiglass would be ideal (just make sure there's no grit or scratches on the surface, you don't want to scratch the GOOD emulsion side from abrasion).

I also used special newsprint paper that was unprinted just for the video example, I normally just use regular newspaper...

[Heespharm]

Glass is actually BETTER, I just don't have any large sheets of glass bigger than 11x14 to tape them to, but yes glass or plexiglass would be ideal (just make sure there's no grit or scratches on the surface, you don't want to scratch the GOOD emulsion side from abrasion).

I also used special newsprint paper that was unprinted just for the video example, I normally just use regular newspaper...

Go to lowe's and buy a thin piece of polycarbonate and have them cut it to sizeBleach does erode it after a time but a long time ... After all they use them in fish tanks and we used to use bleach to clean fish tanks at the old fish shop I worked at... Also it's cheap and won't break

[StoneNYC]

Go to lowe's and buy a thin piece of polycarbonate and have them cut it to sizeBleach does erode it after a time but a long time ... After all they use them in fish tanks and we used to use bleach to clean fish tanks at the old fish shop I worked at... Also it's cheap and won't break

When my darkroom is up and running this summer I'll purchase that kind of stuff, for now it's paper, thanks!

[Michael R]

Someone posted this link on another forum and I figured I'd put it here just for general interest since quite a few of the pictures relate specifically to Kodak's x-ray film (made for Carestream) on the blue-tinted ESTAR base.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...ster/70299168/

[Rick Olson]

First attempt at x-ray. Fuji Super RX-N Blue, 7" x 17" with cutting to 5" x 7" for loading/shooting. Developed in Pyrocat-HD. Used a Paterson tank with constant agitation to avoid mottling of double-sided emulsion.

Rick

[andrewch59]

This was taken on my Deardorff studio using a peerless portrait lens and half speed blue xray film, excuse the poor quality of the reproduction, scanned on my wifes work printer

[Rick Olson]

Thought I would post this here also ... as it's in the "Images shot on X-Ray film" category.

First attempt at x-ray. Fuji Super RX-N, 7" x 17" with cutting to 5" x 7" for loading/shooting. Developed in Pyrocat-HD. Used a Paterson tank with constant agitation to avoid mottling of double-sided emulsion.

Rick

[Tin Can]

Yes, that's true. Assuming he even knows of the other X-ray thread.

Heck, now we have 3 X-Ray threads, since I started Tiny Format X-Ray thread, which needs a bump and practitioners. Can't post those here.



http://www.largeformatphotography.in...t-X-Ray-images

[salvatore]

Bleaching one side of the emulsion isn't that hard, here I made a video tutorial for it.

https://youtu.be/S9WuGkhdjDQ

My compliments for the clarity of your video.
But by removing one sensitive layer you obviously half the maximum optical density reachable with the original two layers.
Do you know which optical density you can reach with a single layer?