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I would love to see a picture of this
by Navarr 5y ago
I would love to see a picture of this
- sinalc0 5y agoSecond this
- zmix 5y agoYes, photos, please :-)!
- lisper 5y agoA photo could not possibly capture the effect. Turn your monitor off and you will see what a digital photo of this black would look like.
- jjeaff 5y agoSure it would. And capturing the contrast between the regular wall and the black would give you much better results that turning your monitor off too. There are lots of cool photos out there of super black material.
- lapetitejort 5y agoI turned my monitor off and saw the most disgusting creature staring back at me. No idea why you'd want to paint that around your house.
- simondotau 5y agoA common mistake. You need to look at your monitor straight on, not at a 45 degree angle where it can pick up a reflection of your child.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoIf the camera has sufficient dynamic range, then it can give a sense of the effect, even if it's not as cool as the real thing. I thought I remembered reading that small sensors are worse at dynamic range than other cameras though, so a phone picture is least likely to capture it compared to other devices.
- meetups323 5y agoThe camera can't capture it fully of course, but here's the gist: https://imgur.com/a/zPGrkNp https://imgur.com/a/zPGrkNp
- Navarr 5y agoI've got just enough imagination to convert the black to void so it's a very helpful picture, thanks!
- meetups323 5y agoAh yes... phantasia :)
- bscphil 5y agoWhat a strange image! I fully expected the black painted portions to just be ... completely black, since after all the whole point is that it reflects nearly zero light. But that's seemingly not the case at all. You can download the image and put a black stripe over the top of it to compare, and the difference is quite striking. My color picker tells me that the black in the center of the mirror has a lightness of about 17 out of 100 (that's L in the LCH cylindrical color space), which is really just a medium gray all things considered. I wonder if this is due to imperfections in the paint and surface, or if the camera used just has an extremely high black level for some reason.
- Qub3d 5y agoI imagine its a limitation of the sensor capturing the image. When you use a tiny sensor on a phone its doing lots of post-processing, including bumping saturation and brightness.
- simondotau 5y agoThe apparent haze in the black portion of these photographs appears to be a product of inexpensive camera optics, likely a smartphone with a bit of finger grease on the lens. If you know what you're looking for, this haze is noticeable across the entire image but especially the left third. This is a common artefact of cheap lenses (or, for that matter, a lens of any quality that is smudged or dirty) but it goes unnoticed by most people in most circumstances.