Possible to Replenish BW Chemicals?

[analoguey]

I still have some HC-110 replenisher, so I use HC-110 replenished to develop film. I too use visual inspection to adjust the replenishment.

I agree with Thomas about all the advantages of replenishment, but would add two more:

1) you no longer have to worry about wasting developer. Just use whatever works best for your tank size, as long as that amount isn't so small as to not provide enough developer activity (potentially a problem with rotary proccessing); and
2) when you use replenished developer, you can choose to always develop at room temperature. Just adjust time accordingly - much less concern about tempering solutions.

X-Tol and T-Max RS are simple to use replenished, because you use the developer to replenish itself. HC-110 is quite a bit more complex, due to the various dilutions, but it works as well, once you figure it out.
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Aha! That temperature bit makes my summer processing much easier then, thanks!


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[markbarendt]

I made contact sheets to determine 80ml. Always the same film. Always the same settings for each contact sheet, which was always made with the same enlarger at the same column height, with the same lens, at the same aperture, with the same contrast filter, printed on the same paper I make enlargements on, developed in the same developer. Everything always the same.

I like it.