Replenish, how to do?

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Thomas Bertilsson said:
And sometimes results are better than with straight or diluted developers.
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And sometimes not, "better" is pretty subjective term.

I would say that replenished systems definitely impart somewhat "different" characteristics and that they are well worth exploring.

I very much enjoyed learning and working with my replenished Xtol and got negatives that were really nice and it was really economical.

I now very much enjoy my DD-X and the convenience it provides and I get negatives that are every bit as nice IMO.

Sure, DD-X costs me a bit extra compared to replenished Xtol, but a $10 or $20 difference in real cost over 6 months is nearly insignificant when amortized over that same time.
 

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@Ian Grant is extremely well informed about the information on the lostlabours website .
 

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MattKing said:
@Ian Grant is extremely well informed about the information on the lostlabours website .
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thank you! hopefully he has time to respond.
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is the attached photo the same result you have from google?

also I'd also love to know the replenishment for id-68 since I use that quite a lot as well. if you happen to know please lmk - but I haven't googled it yet so it's prob right in my face.
 

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MingMingPhoto said:
is the attached photo the same result you have from google?
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Nope; Google has a habit of tailoring search results to the situation. So you see something different from what I see, and this even changes all the time, to boot. The idea is that you use Google to locate relevant sources and then start reading.

For Autophen, there's some text here: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.283040/2015.283040.The-British_djvu.txt
This gives a data point of 50,000 films developed while 120 gallons of replenishment (of the original 60 gallon volume) took place. This boils down to 9ml/film.

MingMingPhoto said:
also I'd also love to know the replenishment for id-68
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I think it's the same rate.

Ilford Microphen/ID-68, origins and replenishment?

Hello all, Frequent lurker, very rarely post. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows when the Ilford ID-68 formula was first published, and if Ilford recommended top up or bleed replenishment for it? Given that it is a PQ developer, I'm guessing at top up. I've recently started using it as my...
www.photrio.com
(note Microphen = ID68)
 
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