Fri Jun 30 06:15:05 EST 2006 Aaron Reynolds wrote: > On Jun 30, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Vid Strpic wrote: > > > Well, maybe it would be better for me to shuddup now. But I won't. > > > > Earlier this year, I was in hospital for some time. They also took > > some > > X-rays. I was fascinated to see that they use ortho film for that... > > and when I was back home, i looked the images on my lightbox. Oh my. > > It was wonderful. But maybe I'm just an old fart and I can be safely > > ignored... > > I don't think that anyone would argue that the tonal range of a digital > X-ray is as good as a film X-ray -- but they're meant to be functional, > not to be pretty.
Talking about aesthetic side of the question, - back in 40s-70s, in the Soviet Union and probably other east-european countries, X-ray films were used to record "western" music smuggled in. That was how many people in the Soviet Union heard American jazz, and later, - rock/rock-n-roll. What is also interesting here is that at least one artist was insipired by this fact. http://web.utk.edu/~imprint/Mangubi.html Igor PS. From the practical point of view, - the digital X-ray machine that was used in the dental surgeon office allows to take an image of all teeths in one shot, - one panorama-like image. This is in contrast to traditional small prints, each containing 3-4 teeth. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
