Re: matte black paint pen
From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: matte black paint pen Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:35:35 -0800 > The best generally available light absorbent paint I've > been able to find is Krylon Ultra-Flat-Black. I need to get one of those. > I think the paste-on flocking is better and there are some > hard to find specialty paints but this stuff is relatively > cheap, works well, and is available in most hardware stores. The surface causing reflection is the opening edges of a slit shutter in Horizon Perfekt camera. This US$500 piece of Zenit camera has so many small flaws, and I am working out hacks to solve them. The rotating lens platform is equipped with a set of rear slits to make a shutter. This is made from a black plastic, and the slit edge is straight cut, not even roughened. This edge is causing reflection that makes long tails as the shutter sweeps, whenever there is a street light in the scene. There is no space or access to place flocking. Also there is no access to roughen the surface with sand paper. I tried to roughen the surface with a solvent mixture (heptane and xylene) but this stuff melts to make a shiney surface again. I really barely have enough space and time (there's no good way to keep the shutter open in the middle of the rotation range without holding against the driving mechanism) to apply something on cotton swab. http://wiki.silvergrain.org/wiki/index.php/Horizon_Perfekt This is the only camera that made me feel like I should shoot color again. (and indeed, I bought a few bricks of color film.)
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