Is there any way to (cheaply) photograph negatives from a tri-x-pan negative?

I took this picture of an X-ray of my broken toe with my digital camera by pulling up a blank screen, a plain white screen on my 24” iMac, I think it may have been a blank word processing document , I don’t remember, and then laying the xray on top of the monitor/screen. It’s not perfect but it is cheap and easy. You do need a monitor big enough to accomodate the size of the X-ray.

You can take the neg to Walgreens (assuming you’re in the US) and digitize it there, then take the file home and manipulate it.