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

[premortho]

I'm in roughly the same ortho experience level as Jim Noel, and I never bracket either. I have, and use a Weston Master light meter, but I'm not a slave to it. When I shot every day, I rarely used it at all. You develop a feel for what the light is. When I go shooting for myself, I often don't expose more than one or two sheets of film per day. I develop them the same night (it is so EASY under that red safelight), so I know what is going on. There was a reason that cameras came with only one or two sheetfilm holders. I don't like roll film cameras for that reason - - I can usually find only two at the most pictures that I really want to take. Why tale pictures you don't want to take?

I do not and never have bracketed. My belief has always been that the Great Yellow Father invented the idea in order to sell more film. Knowledge of materials and equipment is far more valuable.

[SergeiR]

Your xray images are fantastic!!

thank you. I just hope they will not stop making it for a while , as i shoot a lot (relatively speaking of course)

[HoodedOne]

thank you. I just hope they will not stop making it for a while , as i shoot a lot (relatively speaking of course)

Ferrania wiil probably also make x-ray film in the near future.

[SergeiR]

Dunno. Dries in about same amount as regular film for me, but then i do use drying cabinet with heat pumping fan And of course drop of dishwashing liquid.

[Tin Can]

You are putting Kodak out biziness, PhotoFlo needs you...

Dunno. Dries in about same amount as regular film for me, but then i do use drying cabinet with heat pumping fan And of course drop of dishwashing liquid.

[StoneNYC]

You are putting Kodak out biziness, PhotoFlo needs you...

Dishwashing liquid is the same as a photo flo?

[Tin Can]

I never tried it, but I have been meaning to, and Sergei always has solution.

Dishwashing liquid is the same as a photo flo?

[Jim Noel]

Detergents, Photo flo and LFN are all surfactants so they all have the quality of causing water to sheet off surfaces.

[SergeiR]

Dishwashing liquid is the same as a photo flo?

yup. Picked it up from the book, tried - happy ever since.
Just watch out to use normal ones (Dawn is ok, its clear enough, recommended to wash stuff for babies), and not things heavily polluted with additives (Ajax & etc).

I just drop a bit into tank, for about 15 s of last rotary wash cycle, it doesn't make much of foam (about 500ml of water there at the time), and film is dry and scan/print ready in about 15-25 minutes. Makes huge difference for me, as i tend to leave film in cabinet for forever otherwise and it gathers dust.

[SergeiR]

You are putting Kodak out biziness, PhotoFlo needs you...

I kept running out of it and there is no longer any stores in Dallas or nearby that carry stuff. And i don't have huge storage space its bad enough i can't park car in garage with all the … stuff.. i have - costumes, light stands , camera bits and pieces My wife is patient about it, but i don't want to push it Or she will stop posing for me