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Film Amount per Liter of Chemicals?

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When looking at sites like adorama, freestyle, etc. for darkroom chemicals, I notice that many product listings do not list the amount used per film or the number of films that can be processed with the quantity being sold. Is there a standard number of films I can process per liter of chemistry?
 
No. Developers in particular vary a great deal in respect to the amount of stock solution needed per film. The developer manufacturer's data sheets will show the minimum amount recommended per roll.

Cheers, Bob.
 
Ultimately, Bob is right; you need to research each product individually. That said, most developers are used "one-shot," meaning that you use it and then immediately discard what you've used. The trick is that you can use most developers at multiple dilutions, and acceptable dilutions vary greatly from one product to another. For instance, D-76 is generally used at somewhere between stock strength (1 part developer plus 0 parts water, or 1+0 or 1:0 for short) and 1+3, whereas Rodinal is typically used at between 1+25 and 1+200 dilutions. Changing the dilution changes developing times and various characteristics of the finished negatives. Many developers can be re-used, but this is typically recommended only for stock strength (at least for developers like D-76 that are used at low dilutions) and it's usually done by large photofinishers; hobbyists typically dilute the developer and use it one-shot.

Some other types of chemistry are typically re-used. Stop bath can usually be re-used, and some varieties include an indicator dye that changes color from yellow to blue when the stop bath is exhausted. Fixer is almost always re-used a number of times, although some people prefer to dilute it down for one-shot use. Capacity is usually similar from one fixer to another, but it's not always identical. Hypo clear and wetting agents are generally used one-shot, and they're cheap enough that there's little reason to even consider re-using them.
 
Thanks for your answers. I was able to find the information I needed on Kodak's website (per Bob's suggestion to find the manufacturers publications).
 
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