R5 Monobath Capacity?

[NortheastPhotographic]

Hi, I got a bottle of the newer R5 Monobath but it doesn't make mention of capacity. It's not one shot is it? Just curious how many rolls I can run with this stuff.

Thanks!

 

[jeffreythree]

It is reusable. They don't really state capacity since they don't know what you are developing, and just say stop using when quality of the negative degrades. I used their R3, but not enough to reach capacity since it gave me all sorts of problems with roll films.

 

[NortheastPhotographic]

Thanks for clarifying. The R5 is supposed to help with the roll film problems some. I think agitation technique during the first minute. I wouldn't be bothering with a monobath, but I live in a Brooklyn apartment. I have a roommate and a girlfriend, and I can't have my home looking like a darkroom haha. Hopefully R5 will work for me.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Perhaps more important is whether the problem of sludging common to monobaths has been solved. Sludging is usually what limits a monobath's usefulness.

 

[Ces1um]

I tried filtering sludgy monobath through a cheese cloth once. It didn't catch anything at all. The sludge/monobath may be filterable but would require something with a very fine pore size.

(sorry to resurrect such an old thread)