I'm about to run out of my FujiHunt X-Press C-4 developer, but still have bleach and fixer, so I'm thinking I should get FujiHunt Environeg developer replenisher with appropriate starter. Starter comes packed in 6x1L which means that I'll use it up sometime in my next life (as I understand 1L of working solution needs 15ml of starter).
Is there somebody in EU that's in the same situation and would need a starter? Or even better, someone that has excess starter and would like to sell me a bottle?
So, I now have 6L of developer starter. Good enough for 500L of tank/working solution and so should be OK for the next 100 years
If anyone from EU should need a starter and can't get it in reasonable quantities anywhere, feel free to contact me.
Otherwise, I'm curious if anyone is running a replenished regime with their home C-41 processing and their experience with it. It seems the safest bet would be to just mix everything to a working strength and do one-shot processing. But since I process in Jobo tanks, to get the best economy, I have to wait until I have at least 2 rolls ready for processing. With replenished regime I could process single roll (or even a single sheet) of film and just add needed amount of replenisher to working solution. But, replenished systems and recommended replenishing amounts are definitely not designed on the typical home environment where you have a very small "tank" (like 1L of working solution). I'd think that it's more geared to tanks of 10L and more. I'm afraid I'd pretty quickly go out of specs and I have no ways to monitor my working solution (control strips or even pH meter; well, I do index scan every roll with exactly the same setting preset (for every film type) so I could see if index scans would start to get progressively different).
Though, I did run my last 5L of developer in a "self replenishing" fashion (1L of working solution that I replenished with adding fresh tank solution (125ml per roll) to my working solution) and I haven't noticed any problems. So, maybe I should just mix a tank solution and continue with self-replenishing.
Thoughts?