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Old 05-04-2023, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
CRI is import for sure but in real world testing just about nothing I'm nature likes to reflect light at 6k. Nature is yellow and brown and reflects like hell at 4300 but terrible at even 5000 much less higher. The white is pretty at 5000 and reflects white concrete pretty well but at the cost of depth perception. There's a world of difference between my 5000k of past and 4300 of current car.
I think that it's worth noting that one of the big problems with the color temperature scale is that it 6000K in one light is not the same as 6000K in another light. After all, daylight is around 6000K. (100 CRI light sources should be the same at a given temperature, mind you.)

6000K xenons produce a shit ton of blue because xenons are kind of shitty light sources. Hell, it looks like the Phillips 85122 - a OE level 4300K xenon bulb is 65 CRI.
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