Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Re: [Digital BW] Light source for evaluating prints?

2007-01-29 by CDTobie@aol.com

In a message dated 1/29/07 10:59:31 AM, paul.roark@... writes:


> Does anyone know how far off the white (balanced) LED lights are?
> 
> Frankly, I don't want to invest much in lighting with today's hot lights if
> we're close to an efficient lighting technology.
> 
I can't go into detail on this, but keep in mind that LEDs are almost 
laserlike in their ability to emit at only one wavelength. So "white" LEDs are not 
simply LEDs, or they would not resemble white, they would be blue...

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.