Dive Light - colour temp important?

Rod911 · Jan 10, 2014

For recreational diving, is the colour temp of the LED important? Out of the water, I prefer neutral temps from 4000K to 5500K.

Under water, is it "better" to have a colour temp over another?

lucca brassi · Jan 10, 2014

I think this is mostly personal choice - same thing as color adjustment of your computer monitor .

It depends also from water colour you diving in ( absorbtion factor )

If you want made photos , you want '' true colours '' that usually mean white light , 4500-5000 °K and high CRI ( what mean specter of colours close to neutral light source )

DIWdiver · Jan 10, 2014

I agree it's a personal choice, and it also depends on what you are doing.

To see colors, I prefer a warm tint, as it's heaver in red which gets absorbed most readily and thus is most in need of high intensity. For seeing at a distance, higher temp tints have more blue, which both gives more light to start, and gets absorbed least. Turbid waters may push you toward different tints (or even different colors) depending on what's in the water.

MichaelW · Jan 21, 2014

For maximum transmissibility? Then yes you want extreme cool-white.

jspeybro · Jan 31, 2014

what do you do typically when you dive recreationally?
I agree it's a personal choise, but if you do underwater photography or video, you may want to use warmer tints to get nicer colors.

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