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I recently purchased a pack of Agfa Ortho CP-G Plus Medical X-ray film, its something I’ve wanted\u00a0 to try for many years and I’d never got around to it. Recently Dave Shrimpton posted some lovely pinhole x-ray film images on his Instagram and that was a timely reminder.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Sanderson<\/a> was kind enough to sell me a box of 30x40cm Agfa Ortho CP-G Plus Medical X-Ray film for me to try. He also offered a wealth of advise for its use. Thank you Andrew.<\/p>\n

Today I cut up a few sheets for some tests. The good thing about x-ray film is that it is orthochromatic, in this case its mostly Green sensitive, so it can be handled easily under safelight conditions. So, carefully in the darkroom with a sharp blade I cut a sheet into six 12×16 cm sheets that fitted nicely into an adapter for one of the wooden half plate holders.<\/p>\n

Its rated at around ISO 100, so that was my first issue, its much faster than wet plate collodion. All my large format cameras and lenses lack a shutter mechanism, relying on lens cap exposures. It was also one of the brightest days so far this year. So I had to stop the lens right down to F32 and it was still 1-2 second exposures, which I can just about guesstimate with a lens cap.<\/p>\n

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There is emulsion on both sides of the film, so the possibility of scratching has been noted online, but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I was expecting.
\nThese are developed in Ilford PQ Universal but at 1:18 instead of the usual 1:9. Dev time was kept to 1 minute 45 seconds as a suggested ball park figure. A Weak stop bath and then standard Ilford Hypam fixer.<\/p>\n

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These are just contact printed on some old RC MG paper at Grade 2 and Grade 4, f5.6 for 45 seconds. Which seems a little long.<\/p>\n

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\nAs I’m unsure how an x-ray negative is supposed to look so these will have to do , I was quite pleased with these first attempts, I just shot some stuff in the studio with window light. I have a student visiting next Friday for some work experience, so maybe we’ll try some full sheet (12×15 inch) negatives and contact printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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