Promising new products for flocking and eliminating veiling glare.

[Doppler9000]

New The Black Market Ultrablack Foams

Absorb over 99% of visible light

Lower shedding and particulate issues, particularly (BOOM!) with the Fineshut SP product.

Easily cut with scissors

0.22mm (<.01”) and 0.37mm (<.015”) thick

I make no commissions on sales, sadly


https://the-black-market.us18.list-...d3c6b5caa4a82745c7&id=62c637ad1f&e=2060d19c8d

 

[buildbot]

Oh this is awesome! They have IR spectrum flocking sheets!

 

[rdeloe]

Excellent lead. Thanks so much.

 

[cunim]

OK, so i want to treat the inside of my Kipon adapter for Mamiya lenses. Exactly which of these is the best product to order?

 

[buildbot]

OK, so i want to treat the inside of my Kipon adapter for Mamiya lenses. Exactly which of these is the best product to order?

Probably this one? It has glue already so it seems easiest? https://www.the-black-market.com/marketplace/vl-flock-sheet/

This seems much better than using the black 4.0 I still have yet to try. The fact they have IR is awesome. Many plastics are very IR reflective, for example, with a 850NM bandpass filter, my Mamiya 210mm is clearly not black anymore, nor are some plastics and metals on my XF/IQ3.


Ft. PDAF lines, thanks Nikon

 

[cunim]

Just checked and the shipping (about $40) costs more than the product. I would like to get a couple of sheets of the A4 flock but I hate it when this happens.

 

[Doppler9000]

Just checked and the shipping (about $40) costs more than the product. I would like to get a couple of sheets of the A4 flock but I hate it when this happens.

The obvious answer - order enough more stuff that the shipping seems reasonable.

 

[rdeloe]

It's the same with the flocking I've been using from Edmunds. Two big sheets cost as much as the shipping. It's not quite a lifetime supply, but it sure lasts for a long time.

 

[anyone]

Just ordered 500mm x 1000mm of the 0.4mm sheet with thin tape. That is a lifetime supply, but shipping cost are more relevant than the material cost. Let's see how it performs! Internal flare is one of the biggest showstoppers when adapting tech cam glass.

 

[cunim]

This concerns me, from the Musou web site: Applies to both IR and VL versions of the flocking paper. Sensors are hard enough to keep clean without tiny specks of carbon floating about. Comments?

However, as a drawback of the flocking process, little bits of dust may be generated due to fiber loss, so please be careful when applying it somewhere where cleanliness is a top priority or in internal parts of precision equipment.

 

[buildbot]

This concerns me, from the Musou web site: Applies to both IR and VL versions of the flocking paper. Sensors are hard enough to keep clean without tiny specks of carbon floating about. Comments?

However, as a drawback of the flocking process, little bits of dust may be generated due to fiber loss, so please be careful when applying it somewhere where cleanliness is a top priority or in internal parts of precision equipment.

Yeah, I was initially very excited and about to order some of these when I saw that yesterday actually. I don’t like particles…on my sensor, or breathing them!

 

[anyone]

I chose the foil Fineshut SP which was labelled to be for use inside optical equipments - it's mentioned to be particle-free.

 

[cunim]

I will look forward to hearing how anyone does with the Musou products. By the way, here is a message I sent to Kipon about their P1/GFX adaptor. I would really like to use my P1 lenses with the GFX but the flare is really bad.

I have the PHASE M645-GFX E. With any longer P1 lenses this adapter exhibits serious flare. For example, the P1 80mm has enough flare to be a problem, while the P1 120mm macro is unusable.

Do you have a recommendation about how to treat the inside of this adaptor to reduce flare? Specific make of paint or flock would be useful to know. Even better would be if you would offer a custom flock treatment.