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Purpose: An automatic developing apparatus for a silver halide photosensitive material, and more particularly an automatic developing apparatus, in which the automatic developing apparatus is made compact in size and the work efficiency thereof is improved, a low replenishing level is facilitated and a stabilized photographing performance is obtained. Constitution: An automatic developing apparatus of a silver halide photosensitive material, comprising: at least one processing tank for storing a processing liquid for processing an exposed silver halide photosensitive material; a storing means for storing a solid state processing agent; a supply means for supplying the solid state processing agent into at least one of the processing tanks; a detecting means for detecting information on a processing quantity of the silver halide photosensitive material; and a control means for controlling the supply means in accordance with the information on the processing quantity of the silver halide photosensitive material, which is detected by the detecting means. |