The intense, brief pulses of X-rays from upcoming free-electron lasers will greatly extend X-ray microscopy to the femtosecond time domain and to interatomic length scales. From recent experiments ...

Film fog is the effect that occurs when radiation from an X-ray machine deteriorates the quality of a film, causing colorful streaks or blurring to appear across the pictures. The reason film fog ...

The use of radiographic films in X ray imaging might become obsolete in a few years ... The primary reason is that over-exposure goes undetected, unlike with film where the image turns dark or black.