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Default Old style filament lamps?

On Apr 29, 8:05*am, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:
Probably warm / soft white; any other fluorescent is
horror movie lighting. *If you don't have the color temp
spec, hold a lit, known temperature bulb next to it and
see if it looks redder, bluer, or the same.


It is difficult to specify a "color temperature" for a non-continuous
source.

The bare bulbs look "white", leaning a bit to the warm side.


It's amazing how blue a 3500K warm white bulb will look when
held next to a 2700K.