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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Colour Management => Topic started by: Redcrown on November 03, 2015, 12:26:32 am

Title: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: Redcrown on November 03, 2015, 12:26:32 am
This is interesting. Guy uses a CD/DVD disk as a prism to show the spectrum of daylight vs. CFL vs. LED light sources. That part is the first 3 minutes. The rest is about wiring and not relevant.

Not sure what to think of it? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoAZ-u6hn6g
Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: Bart_van_der_Wolf on November 03, 2015, 07:32:57 am
This is interesting. Guy uses a CD/DVD disk as a prism to show the spectrum of daylight vs. CFL vs. LED light sources. That part is the first 3 minutes. The rest is about wiring and not relevant.

Not sure what to think of it?

Well, it give a good impression of how continuous the illuminant's spectrum looks to the human eye (color sensitivity imperfections included).

Cheers,
Bart
Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: digitaldog on November 03, 2015, 10:17:35 am
As they used to say on Laugh in on TV: Very interesting but stupid  ;D


If you want to examine the spectrum of an illuminant, use a Spectrophotometer and good software to plot it.
http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200604_rodneycm.pdf (http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200604_rodneycm.pdf)
Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: xpatUSA on November 08, 2015, 10:26:54 am
This is interesting. Guy uses a CD/DVD disk as a prism to show the spectrum of daylight vs. CFL vs. LED light sources.

I made a spectroscope using a cheap diffraction grating, a cardbox box and a ~50mm projector lens as a collimator:

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/LT130402/scope.jpg)

The grating - dirt cheap on eBay:

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/grating.jpg)

You shoot the grating with the lamp shining through the slit (two utility knife blades) at the other end (guess the type of lamp).

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/LT130402/IMGled.jpg)

The nearest WB to "equal energy" seems appropriate. On my Sigma DSLR these days I remove the hot mirror (easily done with the thumb nail!) to eliminate it's UV/IR blocking effect.

Then convert to TIFF and open in ImageJ to get a response graph.

Here is a comparison between an LED Flood Lamp lab test and the method describe above:

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/LT130402/lampLED.jpg)

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/LT130402/specCompLED5000K.jpg)

The blue was not as evident in shots as the peak would suggest but, based on the graph, I now use their 3500K model with great success.

Here's a CFL compared to a GE Halogen flood:

(http://kronometric.org/phot/lighting/spectroscopy/LT130402/HalCfl.jpg)

Hope this is of interest.

Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: Jim Kasson on November 14, 2015, 11:02:26 am
Good job, Ted.

Jim
Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: xpatUSA on November 14, 2015, 11:55:14 am
Good job, Ted.

Thanks Jim, praise indeed!

I was beginning to think that I had posted a thread-stopper ;)
Title: Re: CFL vs. LED vs Daylight spectrum.
Post by: GrahamBy on December 05, 2015, 02:44:27 pm
Nice, love it :)