[pure-silver] Re: Replentishing With New Developer
- From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "(Redacted sender msampson45 for DMARC)" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:57:38 -0500
On 07/14/2017 02:48 PM, (Redacted sender msampson45 for DMARC) wrote:
I imagine that few of us these days process enough b/w film to make a
replenished system practical, since they thrive on volume. When I was at
Kodak I ran a 3-1/2 gallon replenished sink line that used first D-76 and,
later, HC-110. But in those days (late 1980s on) we shot a great deal of 4x5
b/w. For a number of reasons that system was replaced with a Wing-Lynch 4E,
but that's another story.
XTOL is the only developer I know of that replenishes with itself (an oddity
when it was introduced in the '90s.) Edgar Praus in Rochester does a great
job in his lab using replenished straight XTOL. As far as manufacturers
offering replenishers to go along with their developers, it's for a reason.
Many, many tests in the research lab proved that it works.
In my personal photography, I've long used one-shot developers, as much for
convenience as anything else.
So, mostly, I'm in your camp on one shot, using HC-110 and PMK Pyro. But,
of late, I've been doing a lot of stuff in DK-50 because I really like the
lower fog levels it seems to yield.
But, you're right, there just isn't the volume to justify fiddling with
this, so I'll use the DK-50 1:1 until time or capacity are exceeded, and call
it day :)
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