Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
- Subject: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
- From: Richard Kenward <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:46:42 +0000
In his posting of Wed, 2 Feb 2005, writes Rich Apollo
snip
The following is an excerpt of an email I received from a manufacturer
of museum lighting. I was asking if there were any standards governing
the lighting of museum displays.
<No standard, but check out the website for the American
Association of Museums for publications about lighting. We see
balances set
at 3200K or 300K, as well as daylight balances around 5000K, depending
on
the strongest ambient source and other physical limitations. The eye
works
best seeing small details under low light at warmer temps, below
2800K.. An
overall balance with artificial sources can be easiest set at 3200K as
halogen sources are stable over time and very reliable.>
Dear Rich
I had an interesting discussion with a museum curator recently in the UK
who said that the gallery (one of the biddies) he is responsible for,
simply set up displays of pictures using three different sets of
industrial/domestic fluorescent lighting. Groups of visitors were then
asked which lighting they preferred and these were then the tubes used
throughout the galleries.
I was totally amazed that there was no consideration given as the
spectral response of the tubes, and so doubtless the colour rendition of
the pictures was skewered. The curator did not seem to be aware of the
consequences of throwing badly spiky light at the art.
Cheers
Richard
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Richard Kenward
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