On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:33:04 +0100, Ronald Raygun
wrote:


I think you've misunderstood the thrust of what Arfa was saying.

It's not unknown. ;-)

You seem to think the problem was that he painted *by* the light of a
CFL and consequently got the thickness not quite right or uniform.

Indeed.

I don't think that's the case. They probably did the painting itself
by daylight, and the finished job looks great in daylight, and since
they know it's OK, they don't particularly notice that at night,

Ok.

by CFL
illumination, the colour balances look a bit odd. But the daughter,
seeing it for the first time in the evening by CFL illumination, spotted
the apparently poor colour balance immediately, and it was corrected
by deploying a "proper" lightbulb.

Ok.

Basically all he's saying is that CFLs have (or at least *his* CFL has)
such a bad colour spectrum that it messes about with our perception of
colours.

And you could well be right as I can't think of the last time I
actually considered / compared 'colours' of things and not sure I
would do so under any form of artificial light (other than stuff
designed for the purpose etc) in any case?

Also, any woman, with their excess of colour receptors (or whatever it
is that makes them see more colours than us guys) not liking the
colour of something can find / action a solution for themselves. ;-)

(And why I blatantly refuse to answer any of the 'Do these shoes go
with this top' type questions, ever).

Cheers, T i m