What is the best surface for reducing scattered reflections?

[Galvonaut]

Would matt black stove paint paint work? High temperature too.
http://www.housingunits.co.uk/mall/tplsearchstore.cfm

An effective surface might be a series of baffles with extra absorbing surfaces or just cover a heat sink with matt black paint.

[kitatit]

Hi Galvonaut good idea.

I just had a look at that link and went searching for similar stuff in Oz. looks pretty good. I cant find much about what is in it or what it's light absorbing properties are (not too surprising I guess)

I think I might have found who has the black velvet super absorbent material. http://www.acktar.com/category/BlackOpticalCoating There A4 sample packs are $129. Would be interesting to play with.

Here it is at Edmunds http://www.edmundoptics.com/lab-prod...bent-foil/3634

Yikes expensive bugger!

here are some other materials
http://www.protostar.biz/hitack.htm

http://www.edmundoptics.com/lab-prod...-material/1502

[Galvonaut]

The insides of cameras sometimes use a moleskin type material to stop specular reflections. It is cheap as anything, so worth experimenting with. This is cheap from an AV production supplier >> http://www.trewaudio.com/store/Mole-Skin.html

[kitatit]

I did a search on moleskin+ flock+ camera and got this thread about applying similar stuff to telescopes.
http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/13...flocking-mods/

[Jem]

I did a search on moleskin+ flock+ camera and got this thread about applying similar stuff to telescopes.
http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/13...flocking-mods/

Nice find...

Just what I need for a few of the 'brighter' components in my holography setup

Thanks