Neutral-white LEDs - better when used in sunlight?

[mmace1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think LEDs tend to look washed-out/faint when in any competition with sunlight/room lights. Which is mostly fine, as those are the times you do *not* need a flashlight. However say during the day, an LED might look fainter than a competing incandescent, while at night the LED would blow the incandescent away.

Do neutral-white LEDs avoid this?

 

[Moonshadow]

It's important to remember that the human eye is compensating continuously for differing conditions - it has a sort of automatic white balance, if you like.

So in sunlight or under incandescent room lighting, an LED may well look cool or "washed-out" - but at night the same light could look pure white and make a competing incandescent torch look horrible and orangey.

There is no definitive answer to the tint issue. Some people prefer the neutral white and "warm" tints - others find them yellowy and horrible. This is more than opinion or personal preference: there are probably genuine (i.e. physiological) differences in colour perception between individuals.

 

[Crenshaw]

in a word. Yes.

In more then a word. Thats precisely why a lot of people prefer warm tints

Crenshaw