On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:13:17 +0000, Andy Dingley wrote:

I like the idea of deeper white painted box but I'd use matt white
rather than gloss otherwise you will get a highlight from the light
source at some points.

Use a fluorescent - if you have a large source you can avoid the hot
spot problems.

You can still get a flare from gloss and fluories. Perhaps my choice
of the word "points" wasn't descriptive enough. A linear fluory will
produce a linear flare. A 2D type might be better but making the mask
will be harder. One to covering the entire back of the tube area I
think you be to big and produce a dark area.

There's about four stops brightness difference between typical matt
and gloss white paints.

Shouldn't imagine that is a problem for a light box for view slides.

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