Sounds like a great way to pass the "total darkness" time! All I have is
classical music from online radio!
From: "Richard Lahrson" <gtripspud@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 12:42:18 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Replentishing With New Developer
Hi,
When I had my color lab, I also had a 3 1/2 gallon line for internegatives
in a separate room. It was kind of spooky fun as I was next door to a dive
bar and you could hear conversations.
Rich
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Tim Daneliuk < [ mailto:tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
| tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] > wrote:
On 07/14/2017 11:01 AM, bobkiss [ http://caribsurf.com/ ;| caribsurf.com ]
wrote:
SENT TOO SOON!!! Let's try this again!
DEAR KEN & TIM,
Way back from the mid 70s until I sold my NYC studio and moved to Barbados in
93, I had a 3 1/2 gallon D-76 processing line in a separate film darkroom. I
had a careful replenishment regimen. As I went through, literally, hundreds
(and over 1000 some years) of rolls of b&w film (and many sheets of b&w 4X5)
it would have been very financially inefficient to use anything except a
replenished line. After the first few dozen rolls and replenishing, what was
in that tank was only D-76 in name as I am sure that things had radically
changed including build up of bromide ions and exhausted dev agents. But the
results got better with age so neither I nor my clients complained.
One place I was quite careful was with print dev. If it hit the tray, it was
NEVER saved to be reused to make prints. If is was barely used, a very few
times I might have saved some to make contact sheets.
Anywhom, replenishing can work.
CHEERS!
BOB
