View Single Post
  #18   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
.
 
Posts: n/a
Default Anyone with experience of using LEDs for display lighting?

Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:26 GMT, "." wrote:

Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:31:18 GMT, "." wrote:

Dave Fawthrop wrote:

White LEDs are very *white*

Which is what *I* see.

IME they are very /blue/


snip

What you are seeing is the *difference* between the light sources.


what I'm seeing is different wavelengths given out by those
lightsources

very blue, very cold.

Colour is a very personal thing


it's totally impersonal, measured in Kelvin's.

Kelvins are a *temperature* scale.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/At...re/kelvin.html


oh, dear, poor dave :-(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature