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LeonY

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AGFA Xray Film
« on: September 22, 2011, 02:23:12 PM »
Years back when i was at uni, was rummiging through a dumpster...(yeah they threw out allot of cool stuff, im not a hobo) found a box of old agfa xray sheet film. about 25 sheets all sealed, but the stuff was old, probably from the 70s..

Today...i said to myself, i have a brownie...my darkroom is clean(it was a mess) im gona experiment. I cut up a few sheets of this film in the dark and fited them into the brownie, here is 1 of 3 shots that made it. i did a contact print a few minutes ago! awesome!

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Re: AGFA Xray Film
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 02:34:27 PM »
Nice. I have batch of x-ray too. Works real nice

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Re: AGFA Xray Film
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 06:36:21 PM »
X-ray film is actually what the guys with big handmade cameras use. It's available in huge sizes so no cutting is necessary for them.
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Re: AGFA Xray Film
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2011, 12:05:48 AM »
Considering most hospital XRay machines use digital imaging these days, i bet there is a huge cache of this stuff all around the world.
If anyones interested in the Dev process:
-Exposed the film for 3 minutes in my kitchen using the ceiling fluro for light
-Developed in  ID-11 for 7min @20c + 3 drops of Defoger
-Wash
-Fix for 4 minutes
-wash