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Re: Lighting and Lux levels

Marci,

The intention was good but...

First, the tube you mention has a 5500 K temperature. Many readers in this forum will find, like you, that this is too blue...

The same company offers the Optima 50, 5000 K tubes defined as they say as:
"the best lamp for Graphics Arts Industry - printing, color matching"

The link is:
http://www.naturallighting.com/store_front.cfm?&parent_id=72

In addition to the Optima 50, you may want to test GMB and Just tubes, as well as the Philips ones suggested by Roger.

And if you are picky, you can measure and compare their CRI and daylight simulator Quality Grade.

Danny Pascale

dpascale AT babelcolor DOT com
www.BabelColor.com

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:21:50 -0500
 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
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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>
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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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