Marci,
Looks like those bulbs are 5500K - that would look very blue. So you are
probably not crazy.
charlie
On 7/15/05 4:21 PM, "Marci Fermier" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am dealing with a similar situation our offices are being remodeled, and
> the design team is being shuffled into a teeny windowless office (I don¹t
> have the exact dimensions).
> Unfortunately, the Art Dept staff was taken out of the decision to replace
> the overhead fluorescents with ³natural light² tubes and someone in
> Management ³researched² the new lighting and came up with these:
> Vite-Lite T12, 40 Watt, 48 In, Full Spectrum (VL-06430)
> http://www.naturallighting.com
>
> The office now looks BLUE.
> Am I crazy (and perhaps spoiled with the *actual* natural lighting we¹ve
> had), or is this how I should expect it to look??
>
> I am tempted to just ask for the old regular crappy fluorescents back and
> try to get some tasklamps, because I think sitting in that blue room all day
> might make me batty.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> -Marci Fermier
> www.crystalclearscds.com
>
>
>
> on 7/15/05 1:03 PM, email@hidden at
> email@hidden wrote:
>
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>>
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:57:13 -0400
>> From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Lighting and Lux levels
>> To: Charlie Rieger <email@hidden>, ColorSync
>> <email@hidden>
>> Message-ID: <BEFD7139.10BF7%email@hidden>
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>>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> I'd be weary of all those peaks as they will surely cause metameric
>> nightmares. Just look at the SPD here:
>>
>> http://www.venturelighting.com/TechCenter/Lamp-Color.html
>>
>> FWIW, I advised the unversity where I teach to put in regular Phillips
>> ColorTone fluorescent tubes instead of the ulgly warm white they used. This
>> is for a graphic design 25 G5s student lab. I recommended they instead got
>> Solux desktop tasklamps for each stations but, believe it or not, that fell
>> under another budget. At least they were able to change the lamps and they
>> made all the difference.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
>> http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
>>
>
>
>
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