Re: Regarding 6500K light source
Re: Regarding 6500K light source
- Subject: Re: Regarding 6500K light source
- From: email@hidden (Bruce Fraser)
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:09:05 -0800
At 3:48 PM -0800 2/1/02, DScharf wrote:
Thermionic light sources DO emit a continuous spectrum, but not
flourescent or discharge sources. The usual problem with thermionic, of
course, is that the color temperature does not start out high enough to
filter down to D50.
Here's a good reference page on the subject:
http://www.highend.com/news/colortemp.html
Thanks for that link.
Now I have a much better understanding of why the minolta-type meters
also give wildly inaccurate measurements of monitor color
temperature...
B
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