RE: Re: reusing diluted developer ?

[Adrian Smythe-Hunt <intihuatana@xxxxxxxxx>]

You cannot re-use dilute developers. To do so is foolish, and wastes the much more expensive film, not to mention the images you took time to make.

You can reuse the developer if you use it undiluted and return it to the bottle, but even then you must compensate for weakend potency by extending develpoment time 10% for each reuse.

------Original Message------
From: jenbob@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob & Jennifer)
To: infrared@xxxxx
Sent: November 4, 1999 2:45:33 PM GMT
Subject: Re: reusing diluted developer ?


>Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:52:12 +0100
>From: Eckhard Stephan <eckhard.stephan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: reusing diluted developer ?
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>over the last few weeks I did some development tests with HIE / Konica
>IR and diluted developers (D-76 1:1 and XTOL 1:1; 1:2). So far I haven't
>tried to reuse the diluted developer, because Kodak tells you not to do
>this. But maybe they simply want to sell their chemicals...;-) So what
>are your experiences? Is it possible to reuse diluted developer and if
>yes, how many times does the solution work ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Eckhard
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