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11/29/2005 01:00:17 PM · #1 |
| where can i find a CHEAP white bedsheet for my light tent? |
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11/29/2005 01:01:09 PM · #2 |
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11/29/2005 01:01:19 PM · #3 |
May I suggest going to you local clinic or hospital? I got 10 white bedsheets for free!! :-)
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11/29/2005 01:01:20 PM · #4 |
target, kmart, walmart, thriftstore,
sheets are relatively in expensive.
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11/29/2005 01:06:09 PM · #5 |
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11/29/2005 01:11:30 PM · #6 |
I wouldn't recommend bed sheets for a light tent. I have one in dacron and it weighs only 14oz. ;-)
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11/29/2005 01:56:28 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:
May I suggest going to you local clinic or hospital? I got 10 white bedsheets for free!! :-) |
Did they wash them before giving them to you?
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11/29/2005 03:01:20 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Tom_Robbrecht:
I wouldn't recommend bed sheets for a light tent. I have one in dacron and it weighs only 14oz. ;-) |
Why not? I use two - one in a newly constructed light tent I am experimenting with and pieces of the other as diffusers. They work quite well. Perhpas it is the dacron you are using. Try cotton. Just bought a king sized flat sheet at WalMart for like 6.00. Out of that I get a white background for seamless shots, a small light tent for macro shots and two diffusers - one for each set of lights. |
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11/30/2005 02:24:37 AM · #9 |
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11/30/2005 02:29:53 AM · #10 |
| I live in a dorm so if I walk around the building for long enough I can get any color/weight bedsheet I could ever want....though I doubt this helps you :) |
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11/30/2005 08:28:09 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Tom_Robbrecht:
Are you serious ? |
If you are responding to my post, yes, I am serious. I tried various materials for backgrounds and light tents and cotton worked the best, was the most durable, easily cared for, and works great. Dacron, being a synthetic, reflects/absorbs light much differently than non synthetics.
Dacron is a polyester fiber - plastic. It will never perform the same as cotton. I work with polyester everyday - we metallize it in one of my plants. A lot of the post manufacture testing of the raw material - polyester film - is done with optical devices. Polyester has very specific properties when it comes to light, reflection, refraction, absorbtion. So it does not surprise me you do not like it for a light tent.
Message edited by author 2005-11-30 08:29:14. |
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