Respectfully, no one can run the tests for you; you have to make that judgement call yourself.
Consensus of others is of little use if you eventually find you like one better over the other.
FWIW, I have used both and they both work well.
Could this opportunity be a fortuitous chance to give EcoPro a real-world trial and help cement your opinion?
I think so.
Thanks for your input Kino. I wasn't expecting anyone to run any tests for me, nor am I asking for their opinion on one vs the other--preference isn't my concern here, I was mostly curious
if folks have been reusing EcoPro Film developer without replenishing, and if they've had similar results to XTOL.
Whether or not EcoPro Film developer can be re-used without replenishing is the piece of information I wasn't finding through searching the forums or reading the documentation, and I was perplexed because the data sheet for EcoPro says it's a one-shot developer (but capable of replenishing) whereas XTOL specifically says it can handle up to 15 rolls
without replenishing.
Since most folks deem these two developers close-enough-equivalents, I was assuming I could treat their non-replenished capacity the same but the conflicting documentation brought me here to ask if anyone has experience using EcoPro as such, not to request their services to test for me
I won't have the time to run 15 rolls through before my event, so I may just weigh on the side of caution and use a 1:2 dilution, but i'd prefer to re-use the stock if the possibility is there.