Blackest Black

[Pieter12]

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/very-black-is-the-new-black

Could come in handy for camera refurbishing, if it's not outrageously expensive when it comes to market.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/very-black-is-the-new-black

Could come in handy for camera refurbishing, if it's not outrageously expensive when it comes to market.

not to piss on their parade but, my inkjets have a Dmax of 2.57.that is a light absorbtion of 99.7%!

 

[Pieter12]

not to piss on their parade but, my inkjets have a Dmax of 2.57.that is a light absorbtion of 99.7%!

Try to coat something besides paper with your inkjet?

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I thought Vantablack was the blackest substance?

You could buy this stuff if you wanted black-

https://www.nano-lab.com/singularity-20ml.html

 

[fiddle]

It think the article is about Vantablack. By the sound of it. Not sure how useful for camera stuff. I won't be able to find my camera after its painted...

 

[AgX]

not to piss on their parade but, my inkjets have a Dmax of 2.57.that is a light absorbtion of 99.7%!

Metered without reflection shine.

 

[EdSawyer]

Vantablack is not easily obtainable, nor practically useful. The blackest easily obtainable paint is the Stuart Semple Black 3.0, from my understanding. It's blacker than the singularity stuff, from what I have read.

 

[tezzasmall]

And I thought that Father Ted knew about blackest black, especially when it came to his priest socks, but apparently they are actually about 10x very dark blue!

The text of the script is here:

https://carolgreenleaf.livejournal.com/30046.html

Or you can watch a VERY WONKY bit of tv taping that might make you seasick here:



Terry S

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Vantablack is not easily obtainable, nor practically useful. The blackest easily obtainable paint is the Stuart Semple Black 3.0, from my understanding. It's blacker than the singularity stuff, from what I have read.

Nice info right there.

 

[jim10219]

It think the article is about Vantablack. By the sound of it. Not sure how useful for camera stuff. I won't be able to find my camera after its painted...

It's technically not Vantablack. But you're right, it sounds like a very similar process. They both involve carbon nanotubes applied in a lab.

I've never seen anything like this in person, but one thing I've noticed is all of the pictures of these products and processes look a lot more impressive than the videos I've seen. I think a lot of the photographs are carefully lit to exaggerate the effects.

 

[Luckless]

I think a lot of the photographs are carefully lit to exaggerate the effects.

Exaggerating the effects when showing off things like that is pretty common, as the actual different looks pretty minor when you get down to real world conditions. There aren't a lot of people who can look at a black pigment and say "That one's totally way more black and this other one" without lab grade gear when we get down into the blackest of blacks humanity has ever worked with.


That said, I don't know what I would do with this kind of material, but I kind of want to try working with it at some point. This stuff mixed with some retro-reflective micro crystals maybe?

Wonder if I could find a way to get a black pigment that offers effectively one way light piping from the black into a white area...

 

[tomkatf]

Hasn't this already been accomplished??? This black goes to 11...

 

[Anon Ymous]

Finally, the spinal tap reference I was waiting for.

 

[Vincent Peri]

I thought it was a Gumby and Pokey reference...

 

[ic-racer]

Nothing to indicate it is better at reducing reflections in cameras than flocking. It does not indicate it is an anti-reflective material.

 

[nmp]

Vantablack has been around for a while. It also absorbs 99.96%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

So if this new material is supposed to be 10 times blacker, then it should absorb 99.996%. But the article claims 99.96% which is about 7 times inkjet's Dmax of 2.57 obtained by Ralph, which although very good is not the blackest material known, obviously.

Something is not quite right somewhere....