Blackout cloth A good inexpensive screen
#1
Posted 17 December 2003 - 08:48 PM
Has anyone found a material they like better than blackout cloth in about the same price range?
#2
Posted 21 December 2003 - 08:41 PM
#3
Posted 05 January 2004 - 06:36 AM
White Muslin @ JoAnn Fabric 90" wide!
As of this writing, it's currently $4.49/yard ideally, one would only need to purchase about 2 yards, since it's already 7.5 feet wide!
#4
Posted 05 January 2004 - 08:10 AM
As for the muslin I doubt it would make a good screen. I suggest you obtain a sample first and compare it to various materials...I think you'll end up with blackout. If the screen transmits light, that's light that's not getting back to your eyes. Also irregular surfaces including canvases tend to soften the image, making it appear slighly out of focus.
#5
Posted 06 February 2004 - 10:00 AM
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Did you mean absorbs light? I am a little lost on this... to me if the screen transmits light is light that gets reflected to the eyes. I am wrong? That's why screens come always in colors tending to white (grey, pearl, etc.) rather than tending to black...a black screen will reflect no light and absorb all making a black screen useless for projection.
Where else can I find the blackout cloth? I asked around in NYC and photographers seem to know nothing about it.
thanks
#6
Posted 06 February 2004 - 03:00 PM
#8
Posted 11 February 2004 - 05:13 AM
This is supposed to be 100 percent cotton, but there is a tight knit side that is semi glossy like vinyl.
Rain No Stain Drapery Lining
http://joann.com/cat...42&PRODID=34538
#9
Posted 17 February 2004 - 04:09 AM
#10
Posted 27 February 2004 - 07:23 AM
and would the large size ones have seems in them?
http://www.walmart.c...109684%3A110572
thx all
payne
#15
Posted 27 February 2004 - 08:01 AM
I just wrote a letter to roc-lon asking them which grade
of roc-lon blackout cloth wallmart has.
here is the rain no stain by loc-lon found at joann.com(as earlier stated
by msk1hc)
http://www.roc-lon.c...at_products.htm
but i though a projection screen would be better with the coated blackout
cloth?
http://www.roc-lon.c...ed_products.htm
thx
#22
Posted 25 March 2004 - 03:18 PM
steve@lumenlab.com
#25
Posted 26 March 2004 - 12:23 AM
Lucky, I found a piece of blackout cloth in my girlfriend's airing cupboard, measuring 5' 8" by 7' 8", marked 'blackout lining' in this case.
I might try the silver-on-masonite approach, and maybe stretch a piece of this cloth over the back, make a double-sided screen, hangable on both sides. Gotta keep my thumbs from twitching til my 1515 arrives
steve@lumenlab.com

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