[geeks] "daylight" light bulbs

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

In consumer grade lamps I think you are out of luck. In the older style
tubes you can get lots of temperatures. Also in the PL-series compact
flourecents you can find lots of temps.

The GE Reveal line is a slightly reformulated product from the 1950's known
as a photoflood. It is a color corrected tungsten-incandecent light source
for using "daylight" color film indoors with incandecent lights. I used them
when "tungsten" color film became hard to find.

You could obtain some gels (filters) for the purpose and build tents to
cover your existing flourecents. Ask at a good photography center to see the
Kodak Wrattan color filter charts. You can get unmounted filters (sheets of
plastic) in sizes up to 8X10. Also stage lighting dealers have gels (plastic
sheets), but in fewer colors.


~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
~ Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:08 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [geeks] "daylight" light bulbs
~ 
~ 
~ For the longest time, we had the spiral-coil flourescent light bulbs
~ (that go in a normal socket) around the house, to save power 
~ (and because
~ i was tired of the "normal" ones burning out).  However, we 
~ switched to
~ the GE "Reveal" bulbs because they're "whiter" and look better in the
~ house..
~ 
~ Anybody know where I can find flourescent "energy saver" bulbs with  
~ a high Kelvin (K) rating?  The ones around here at Home 
~ Depot, etc, are
~ only around 2700K.  I'm looking for 3000K or better..
~ 
~ Bill
~ 
~ -- 
~ Bill Bradford     
~ mrbill at mrbill.net 
~ Austin, TX        
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