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For the past many decades I have been mixing my chemistry for one shot use. I would work out how many rolls of film I wanted to get of a kit and just dilute that amount into what ever total solution I needed for my Jobo tank. I'd work up my new development times and went from there. It worked out pretty well and results were acceptable to me. The pain was is some parts of the chemistry were very low volume, mixing 1 or 2 mL could be challenging. I ended up using syringes for those small volumes. My whole reason for doing this is that I don't process often and I found the chemistry kept longer in concentrated form.

Anyway, I might just be getting lazier these days, so I tried something different for me. I still didn't mix the full volume of my kit, but split it in half. So for my 1L kit, I mixed up 500mL. So for me this was an experiment on how long I could use that 500mL.

I just processed my 8th 36 exposure roll with a 500mL batch I mixed on July 23rd. What I did for this batch was, 1rst roll time 6:30, then I added 15 seconds for each roll. So this 8th Roll was 8:30. I could have probably gotten more rolls out of this chemistry, but I called it done.

So I grabbed an Olympus 35RD I just repaired, grabbed a roll of 15 year old Provia F ( shot at box speed ), went out and shot some pics. I was mostly testing the camera, so I shot some sequences of the same picture at different shutter speeds to see how much exposure variance I would get. There is some, but given the way this camera works, it doesn't surprise me. I also take into account the simple metering it does, I did not try to add any compensation, just took the shots as the camera metered them.

I'm happy with the results.

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Haha, I also zoomed in onto the helicopter in those photos. @Joel_L it is not clear to me what you're testing though. Of course you got an image. It would be surprising if you didn't. The question is: how big is the delta between what you got and a fresh Provia developed freshly mixed E6? Comparing those side by side would tell you what you're losing (or not). These kind of questions used to drive me crazy. I found my peace in control strips :smile:
 
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For me it's mostly a matter of getting an image I'm happy with. I play with getting the most mileage out of my chemistry. Whether it perfect, or as good as a fresh roll in fresh chemistry isn't a big goal. I have done runs where I obviously screwed something up, but most the time I'm satisfied with the results, not so concerned with if it is the perfect process. way way back when I used to send film out the results were less consistent than what I get myself. Disclaimer - I never used pro labs, think Fotomat.

For some reason I could not get a picture that really represents what I see on the light table. They look much better in person.

So anyway the point of this was to see how far I could stretch the chemistry and still get satisfactory results.
 

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For me it's mostly a matter of getting an image I'm happy with. I play with getting the most mileage out of my chemistry. Whether it perfect, or as good as a fresh roll in fresh chemistry isn't a big goal. I have done runs where I obviously screwed something up, but most the time I'm satisfied with the results, not so concerned with if it is the perfect process. way way back when I used to send film out the results were less consistent than what I get myself. Disclaimer - I never used pro labs, think Fotomat.

For some reason I could not get a picture that really represents what I see on the light table. They look much better in person.

So anyway the point of this was to see how far I could stretch the chemistry and still get satisfactory results.

Look at this. Not the same thing but similar. I was experimenting with some decades old chemistry 😀
 
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Look at this. Not the same thing but similar. I was experimenting with some decades old chemistry 😀

I'm glad you finally used it, kind of thing I would have done just to see. Not as old as that, but when XTOL picked up a rep for failing, I had sone that was I think several years old that still worked fine.

I think if I was doing this in some professional capacity my attitude would be different, but as it is, I like to see what I can get away with.

Here's a scan of one of the frames. Still happy with the results.


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