Beltana X-ray images

[Bazz8]

X-ray film is a interesting medium I ended up making a BTZS file for my exposures which worked fine, at one stage I read 800 pages of x-ray film from the American LF page incredible info.
This image was taken at some of the ruins around Beltana Negative R Minn Mammogram film[img]

The print is on Foma resin Contact printed, at the time I was bamboozled by the light leak see the sky after almost a year I narrowed it down to my gentle carpenters hands causing a slight movement when removing the dark slide. I process the negative in 8x10 trays with glass in the tray the even development occurs. MY issue was to much agitation my method now is for 15 sec agitate gently every minute development 1 lift of the tray until completion.
This gives a good neg to print with.
Barry

[Maris]

Bazz8, I remember only the chimney left Beltana Flinders ranges you posted on 3 Feb 2019 and I thought there's got to be more. Old Beltana appears to be a target rich environment with lots of visual metaphors for time and decay, desert and dust.

Now your Beltana X-ray images is a real beaut with the texture of the old wall amazingly strong. Tourist snaps of the ruins show reddish mortar between the wall stones. Could your mammography film be orthochromatic thus rendering the red mortar as nearly black?

[Bazz8]

Maris Yes there are more I scanned some yesterday.
Beltana is rich in history unfortunately it has been invaded by Bunning's fixer uppers
as a builder I drove around and shook my head.
The film is orthographic and would be the reason not that I knew that!
I will post up the set that I took and developed and ruined by over agitation.
Here is another warts and all.
I changed the view point and love the pathway through the ruins
the darkened clouds are due to over agitation I had not realised
Incidentally I have the most light proof Kodak 2D in the world triple layer
of light proofing material, velvet all solved by the use of velcro to tighten the back
of the camera,looks daggy but works.

[Walter Glover]

Great location. ideally suited to the shared exploration. off the X-ray stock.