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Old 15th February 2020, 10:59 AM
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can I shoot Xray film in my large format camera ,and develop as ordinary film ,if so what are the results like and is there a youtube link about it .


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I too have a box of X-ray film waiting to be used in my 10 x 8 pinhole, so yes it can be used in LF camera, well any camera, if cut to size. One of the benefits is that it is a lot cheaper than HP5+ etc. so experimentation is a lot cheaper.

A lot of it is double sided Paul, with some people leaving it as is after developing, whilst others remove one side of the emulsion with straight bleach.

I believe there are also variants of the film, with different colours reproducing better with different films. Mine is better or worse with the colour green I think. I'll only know after trying it I suppose.

There is a lot more info on the 'other site beginning with P', so I'd pop across and do a search there...

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thanks Terry ,I have been looking on ebay and all I can find is this Fujifilm IX 80 Nif Industrial X-ray Film 17.8x43.2cm X100 Sheets X Ray all for £25 ,having no idea what I am looking at doesn't help ,also can you cut film to size ,if so I could get 400 4x5 sheets from the box .
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I woud also check out the advanced search on the LF Forum
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can I shoot Xray film in my large format camera ,and develop as ordinary film ,if so what are the results like and is there a youtube link about it .

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There is an article about using Xray film on the Andrew Sanderson site. It is a few years old but should give you the gist. It is at: https://www.andrewsanderson.com/docs/X-rayfilm.pdf
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https://www.largeformatphotography.i...example-images

Hours of research.... Have fun.
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...can you cut film to size ,if so I could get 400 4x5 sheets from the box .
Yes, just treat it like other papers and film by cutting it to the appropriate size.

I was reading a bit about x-ray films this morning, and it also reminded me that you can use it under a standard b/w safe-light as well.

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There is an article about using Xray film on the Andrew Sanderson site. It is at: https://www.andrewsanderson.com/docs/X-rayfilm.pdf
I like Andrews work and his writing style and have one of his books.

The linked pages of his give a good overall understanding of using x-ray film, but he doesn't mention developing it in film developer, only preferring to use print developer. The other links on this subject will undoubtedly give more info on this.

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Interesting article on Andrew Sanderson's site. He mentions several XRay film stockists but none of which he had tried and the article was a few years ago. Out of curiosity I did a Google check on suppliers and the first that came up was Silverprint but the prices were eye-wateringly high

I then noticed a site called A Somerville which was mentioned on the LF forum. It sells Agfa XRay film at what seems to be almost unbelievably low prices by comparison.

Does anyone here have a supplier and what are the prices?

For alternative processes it would seem that making a paper enlargement from say a 35mm or MF neg and then contact printing on to the appropriate size XRay sheet is the only way to go if you want to remain fully analogue

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Old 16th February 2020, 09:17 PM
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has anybody tried this film Fujifilm IX 100 Nif Industrial X-ray Film ,its not double sided as far as I can tell .
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