I've used LL for glass plates before but I was trying to enlarge on it last night and had some issues. The instructions suggest a wide-open aperture and 20 seconds might get you in the ball park. For testing I projected a 4x5 enlargement from a 6x7 negative onto index cards double coated with LL and ran test strips wide open at 10, 20......50 seconds. The strips were indistinct, the image was faint but present. Thinking maybe the porous surface was interfering somehow I then did a test with a single-coated glass plate and got an extreeeemely faint image. Finally I did another index card at 30 second intervals and at least I could distinguish the strips this time but it was still faint, flat and horrible. I'm thinking I may have to get upwards of 5 minutes exposure before building adequate density.
Does it sound like there's something wrong here, or is this just par for the course? The glass was subbed, the cards were not, and I used D-72 1:2 for 2-3 minutes to develop. I didn't agitate aggressively because I didn't pre-harden, but I kept up a gentle rocking of the tray.
Does it sound like there's something wrong here, or is this just par for the course? The glass was subbed, the cards were not, and I used D-72 1:2 for 2-3 minutes to develop. I didn't agitate aggressively because I didn't pre-harden, but I kept up a gentle rocking of the tray.