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

[Jay DeFehr]

Poke around the Chemistry Store a little and you'll see it's not really a photo chemical supply-- more like a soap and cosmetics supply-- but you can still get 2 of the three ingredients for my developer there, along with many others useful in compounding photo processing chemicals. If there's something similar in Indianapolis, you might give them a try, but you're not likely to find the phenidone. But 100g of phenidone will last a very long time, and costs little to ship.

[Jay DeFehr]

The question now is when will someone put this together with images, film supplier links, recommendations and user info and put it in the articles section of the Home Page?

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[Tri Tran]

This shot taken at Soka University with Jim F.
Xray 14x17 E print

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Tri, that came out sweet! We need to go back to that place!

[Tri Tran]

Yes we have to go back to this place , in the mean time I have to make an E print for a friend because the neg is a little weak for Carbon.It was fun that day though.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Since this was shot on green sensitive x-ray film I thought I'd post it here. I bought jim Galli's half an Edioscop a while ago knowing that I could produce something like this with it. I printed this in carbon and the print in real life glows very nicely. For me this is a wonderful match.

[Corran]

Actually, having just done my first developing, stripping, scanning, and soon contact printing of x-ray film, I'm considering doing a write-up and possibly a video to describe the process. The results so far: pretty stunning. I'm using 8x10 Fuji green-sensitive x-ray film and tried some different dilutions and times for Rodinal and finally got a really great, full-scale negative.

[Corran]

And here's a sneak-peek:
(Taken with Fuji Super HR-T with Nikon 300mm f/9 @ f/45 for 2 seconds and developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 6 minutes)

[Corran]

Taken with Fuji Super HR-T with Nikon 300mm f/9 @ f/45 for 2 seconds and developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 6 minutes:

[gchu1970]

I'm going to start using X-ray. I found you all need to strip one side of the emulsion after exposure. How to do it? Any one can help to detail explain the exact process of development of X-Ray film(green sensitive)?