Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about

Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>

What you are seeing is a number saying "This looks to the eye kind of
like blackbody source with a 5000K color temperature."

>
Which is certainly sufficient for the typical lightbulb buyer who wouldn't know
color temperature from a hole in the ground.

Yes, but it doesn't tell them what they really want to know, which is
what the color rendition is like.  With some of the cheaper LED lamps
and even some of the better CFLs, I can't tell the difference between
red and orange stripes on resistors.  It's very obvious under incandescent
or daylight.

It's nice to know the approximate color temperature, but it's more useful
to know that these lamps will make your face look green when you look in
the mirror to shave.
--scott
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