Consider a bulb's Kelvin temperature. There are two major ways to differentiate between types of light: The Kelvin temperature (this measures the warmness or the coldness of the white light spectrum) ...

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Have you ever noticed how white lights seem to vary in color? Some light bulbs seem yellowish, others almost blue; some seem to have no color at all but give an unpleasant “cold” light that’s very ...

LEDs offer a new palette of colors to the world of lighting. First, learn these two basic types: soft white and daylight. Soft white refers to warm golden light at 2700 Kelvin, close to the look of ...

How do you find the quality of the light a light bulb produces? Using the color rendering index, a measure of how well a light bulb illuminates a range of colors. Appliance Science looks at the ...

Philips Hue's "Natural Light" has starters rolling out to more users. The new feature gives users an option to set their lighting color temperature based on the sunlight. It is worth noting that ...

Back in the age of incandescent lights we only had one color temperature to choose for studio production. Until fairly recently, studio lighting was almost exclusively incandescent. There were a few ...