dental slide film??

anyone ever heard of kodak dental slide film?? i have a friend who worked at a camera store and she cross processed some dental slide film years ago and it made for some pretty amazing prints...i just can't remember what film it was? she doesn't remember for sure either. we don't even remember what iso it was, but we're pretty sure it was kodak dental slide film and she's positive its been discontinued since but i'd sure like to get my hands on a few rolls if anyone knows where to get it from?

Dental "slide" film is certainly still made. Some dentists have converted to digital X-rays, but this is still very uncommon. Many dental specialists and doctors I have talked to have said they have no plans on converting. Dental film is not made in 35mm cassettes though. It is exposed in a light-tight cassette by an x-ray source. I'm not sure how you could adapt this to artistic imaging purposes. It is also made in sheets, I believe, but not for dental x-rays. You'd have to visit a local hospital and ask if you could buy a small quantity or have some of their old or left-over film.

Regards.

Karl Borowski

X-ray art: http://www.nickveasey.com/nickveasey.html
I believe he used corpses.

There's got to be some natural source of X-rays though, besides black holes and supernovas. I think lightening emits it, but I'm not sure if it'd be strong enough to catch on film. I love x-ray images though. It'd be cool to see some more.

I suspect she is not asking about X-Ray film, but rather a standard E6 that is used for dental documentation etc. I found this on Kodak's site, but it has precious little information: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/heal...film/dental/slidePrntFilm/slidePrntFilm.jhtml

What they describe on that page sounds more like a packaging thing than film that is designed for dental use. My suspicion is that it was more the cross processing than the fact that it was dental film that made for the interesting images.

it was a standard e-6 roll in 35mm form, not xray film or anything crazy like that, although that sounds like it could be pretty cool to play with. i've tried looking into it on kodaks site as well as some others but have never really found anything helpful in terms of how to get it again. so i was hoping someone else would know about it. i'm somewhat obsessed with cross-processing and granted you can get some pretty cool effects with just any slide film, but some are definately better than others. this 'mystery' chrome was the best i've seen so far - it didn't shift the colours like most cross processing seems to do but it just seemed to intensify them SO much. oh well...((sigh)).

by the way - that nick veasey's website is pretty rad!

natalie said:

it was a standard e-6 roll in 35mm form, not xray film or anything crazy like that, although that sounds like it could be pretty cool to play with. i've tried looking into it on kodaks site as well as some others but have never really found anything helpful in terms of how to get it again. so i was hoping someone else would know about it. i'm somewhat obsessed with cross-processing and granted you can get some pretty cool effects with just any slide film, but some are definately better than others. this 'mystery' chrome was the best i've seen so far - it didn't shift the colours like most cross processing seems to do but it just seemed to intensify them SO much. oh well...((sigh)).

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I was kind of suspecting that it looked like Elite Chrome, have you tried that? Just an idea.

I have really liked what I have seen in cross processed slide film, I may have to start playing around with it myself.

Paul.

There was a special "scientific" slide film made, but I think it was designed to take pictures of specimens under a microscope. To my knowledge, Kodak never made a special E6 film for medicine. Thinking back to when I was a small child and people actually used 35mm film (hard to believe there actually could have been a time. . .) they used standard 35mm neg and prints when I was getting braces to show my mother how they were going to pull back my lower row of teeth. Anyway, I think that any special purpose films such as this were discontinued due to the common practice of "professionals" using the cheapest amateur film they could buy to save money.

Regards.

Karl Borowski

Hello there is a film which I stock in my lab called DPF or otherwise DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT FILM made by Kodak in the USA. It is a 100 ISO 12 exposure roll of 35mm colour negative film that yields some pretty amazing colours due to the fact its colour balance is designed to counter act both tungsten and fluro casts at the same time. Could this be the film you are thinking of? one thing i like about this product is that it has information from the AACD (American Academy of dentistry) inside the box on how to best use this product. Kodak made this in conjunction with a series of other materials all of which were specifically designed for certain industries. One other unusual film which is no longer made was Kodaks Marine films one which was called Underwater Film. It had a magenta balance so that underwater the blue cast was reduced however if shot in daylight skintones looked like lobster hahahaha. If you would like any more information on the Dental film I sell
my email is Steve@thelighthousebps.com.au Im happy to send you some information.