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

[Tin Can]

No reason for me, I just picked green and stuck with it.

There may be no difference for our purposes.

Test them both and report?

[Andrew O'Neill]

There is quite a difference in the look between Ektascan single-sided and CSX Green Lat. double-sided, in my opinion. Green Lat. is softer, and renders greens lighter, especially when a light green filter is used.

[Corran]

So do we no longer have a simply image sharing topic for specifically x-ray? That's unfortunate. It's true that both threads would get a bit of discussion and a bit of simple photo sharing. Hmm...does anyone think we need a specific "x-ray" thread in the Image Sharing subforum? I guess it's already quite granular.

I've never used anything but the green stuff. It seems to work fine. I went through some different developers over the years but I'm back at Rodinal 1:100, now in tray. I stopped stripping them because I'm lazy. Sometimes they get scratched. The single-sided stuff seems nice but I still like the cheap stuff.

Here's a couple shots from Thursday morning, both on Fuji HR-T. First with a 240mm Graphic Kowa and second with a Nikkor 120mm:

[Andrew O'Neill]

One x-ray thread makes it easier.

[Tin Can]

11x14 Kodak X-Ray CSG 2 sided not stripped Rodinal 1/50 tray 4 minutes, Imagon 360 f7'7 holes open crop to 8x10 from scan on V700 cleaned up in PS

Second shot different from the one in Sept Portraits.

Discussion welcome

erin 2 XRay2x11x14crop by moe.randy, on Flickr

[Peter De Smidt]

Great job Randy!

[Pali K]

Randy that is just beautiful. Pali

[Tin Can]

Those pearls look a little odd!

This film exposed better than fresh Delta 100. It underexposed the face shadow side at ISO 100. All things same. almost...

I gave the X-Ray one more stop to ISO 50.

[Cor]

Those pearls look a little odd!

Imagon at work! great job, Randy !

best,

Cor

[Tin Can]

Thanks guys, I had almost given up on soft focus. Fortunately my model can sit very still as I slowly focus.