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Flashlight Enthusiast
I like standards. It gives me a point of reference. Like measuring the size of a flashlight with something you are familiar with. In photography one uses a gray card as a point of reference. Printers use the Pantone Matching System. PC Computers use Bill Gates as a point of reference. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Using a standard helps me when I want to deviate from the standard and tells me how far I have deviated.
Is there a standard for a Lux LED emitter? I would like to find the ideal light-tint emitter so I can use it for a reference to see the difference between emitters. Is there a "Holy Grail" emitter tint that matches the tint of the Sun?
Yesterday the man from MARS came to do a job at work. Really! He is the Mobile Auto Restoration System man. The man from MARS. He saw me playing with one of my MicroMag lights. He told me he uses a neat light that is 99% accurate to sunlight and within 30 seconds we had the web page SOLUX on the computer. Dennis, the Man from MARS, told me he uses the light to match his airbrush color repairs on cloudy days so when the sun finally comes out the color will remain a match. Dennis is good; he knows his stuff. Dennis then asks, "Would you like to see my light? I have it in the trailer of my truck."
And how I would! In the truck he pulls out a box that looks a lot like a movie klieg light with a small reflector and bulb in it. He plugs it in then switches the Solux on. We are bathed in a happy warm yellow beam that is very pleasant. It is like sunlight in the trailer.
My ulterior motive was to color match my favorite emitter color tint to see how far I was off the norm my favorite light was. I wanted a standard that I could match tints with other lights. What surprised us both was when I turned on the MicroMag light. The two lights were an exact match...EXACTLY THE SAME.
When I describe the emitter tint I like I use the word sunshine. My emitter tint of my choice is the Lux 3 TV1 series. The MicroMag we were comparing has the TV1 series emitter.
We tested the TV1 emitter and the Solux light against lots of color charts and the TV1 emitter matched. Dennis told me metallic paints were the toughest colors to match but the TV1 emitter and the Solux still matched. We moved the beam of the two lights together and separated them and the two beams seamlessly merged together. Unfortunately it was cloudy and rainy outside the trailer so we couldn't do a real sunshine test but Dennis assures me that the Solux light does match sunlight. Do you realize how silly it all looks to have two people in a trailer for 10 minutes waving lights around? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Dennis was impressed enough with the MicroMag to ask if he could have one like it so he could have a portable Solux light.
Could I have found the "Holy Grail"- a standard of a piece of sunlight to compare other LED emitters to or have I found "fools gold?" Is the TV1 emitter the Holy Grail?
Using a standard helps me when I want to deviate from the standard and tells me how far I have deviated.
Is there a standard for a Lux LED emitter? I would like to find the ideal light-tint emitter so I can use it for a reference to see the difference between emitters. Is there a "Holy Grail" emitter tint that matches the tint of the Sun?
Yesterday the man from MARS came to do a job at work. Really! He is the Mobile Auto Restoration System man. The man from MARS. He saw me playing with one of my MicroMag lights. He told me he uses a neat light that is 99% accurate to sunlight and within 30 seconds we had the web page SOLUX on the computer. Dennis, the Man from MARS, told me he uses the light to match his airbrush color repairs on cloudy days so when the sun finally comes out the color will remain a match. Dennis is good; he knows his stuff. Dennis then asks, "Would you like to see my light? I have it in the trailer of my truck."
And how I would! In the truck he pulls out a box that looks a lot like a movie klieg light with a small reflector and bulb in it. He plugs it in then switches the Solux on. We are bathed in a happy warm yellow beam that is very pleasant. It is like sunlight in the trailer.
My ulterior motive was to color match my favorite emitter color tint to see how far I was off the norm my favorite light was. I wanted a standard that I could match tints with other lights. What surprised us both was when I turned on the MicroMag light. The two lights were an exact match...EXACTLY THE SAME.
When I describe the emitter tint I like I use the word sunshine. My emitter tint of my choice is the Lux 3 TV1 series. The MicroMag we were comparing has the TV1 series emitter.
We tested the TV1 emitter and the Solux light against lots of color charts and the TV1 emitter matched. Dennis told me metallic paints were the toughest colors to match but the TV1 emitter and the Solux still matched. We moved the beam of the two lights together and separated them and the two beams seamlessly merged together. Unfortunately it was cloudy and rainy outside the trailer so we couldn't do a real sunshine test but Dennis assures me that the Solux light does match sunlight. Do you realize how silly it all looks to have two people in a trailer for 10 minutes waving lights around? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Dennis was impressed enough with the MicroMag to ask if he could have one like it so he could have a portable Solux light.
Could I have found the "Holy Grail"- a standard of a piece of sunlight to compare other LED emitters to or have I found "fools gold?" Is the TV1 emitter the Holy Grail?