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

[Tin Can]

It's a visual I cannot erase. Happened in a large crowd of people very quickly.

[Will Frostmill]

8x10 Ektascan b/ra in old dektol. Kodak 305 portrait lens in the wood of birch point beach state park.

img916 by philbrookjason, on Flickr

This is really nice. The puffy bokeh in the sky complements the bark texture really nicely.

[SergeiR]

8x10 Kodak CSG, 8x10 Gundach Radar @4.5

1:125 R09, 12m rotary development

Tenth gate: Conversations on the edge of forever by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

Tenth gate: Gardener by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

Tenth gate: Trip planning by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

[Tin Can]

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[bcli]

[IMG]Tools of a champion by bc50099, on Flickr[/IMG]

Fujifilm HR-T, Rodinal 1+100 10 minutes (first sheet of X-ray film!)
Woodman 45
Schenider Symmar 90mm lens

[SergeiR]

8x10 Kodak CSG, 1:125 Rodinal (yay! fresh batch from digital truth arrived, so i poured old half-dead brown one away), rotary development 12 min.

2015-04-12-0004www by Sergei Rodionov, on Flickr

btw, that is 300mm convertible Symmar with yellow-green filter on overcast day

[andrewch59]

Great pic!

[Fr. Mark]

Why did you think the Rodinal was dead? I've made it at home and it starts out pale and gets dark but still works. N-oxides of aromatic compounds like p-amino phenol (rodinal's main ingredient) tend to be highly colored so you may still have 95+% of the Rodinal despite the dark color. Diluted for user think most consider it a one shot developer.

Like picture. Didn't get the skeleton stuff.

[StoneNYC]

Yea, Sergei, that Rodinal wasn't bad, it always goes brown after a while, it has easily a 20 year shelf life even opened... At least it was cheap so you didn't waste too much money.

Of course that much Rodinal is a lot for the water plant processing to handle in one shot, but that's another story for the environmentalists.

[SergeiR]

It wasn't much.. just leftovers on old bottle. and had some crap slowly accumulating on the bottom of the bottle.

I know about shelf life and such. However , b/c i am one limited crowd of people who do development to full exhaustion and thus its important to me that certain volume of chemicals i pour in rotary processor would be active, and not just 50% active. I ruined previous batch of shots b.c it started to go funny, so i felt like being on safe side