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Has anyone with an awful pea-green luxeon tried using some sort of filter to color-compensate for it? It occurred to me that the pea-green tint of some of the off-color luxeons is very similar to the greenish tint that can show up in photographs taken under fluorescent light. I don't have a flourescent or CC10M photography filter, but I tried shining one of my green-tinted luxeons through my skylight filter, which is just barely magenta to the naked eye, and it seemed to me that there was significant color improvement even with that.
Photography filters are going to be too large and expensive to use with the LS, but if you are looking for the same effect on the cheap, you may be able to do it if you have access to an inkjet printer and color transparencies. I don't, but experiments with a magenta highlighter and a transparency suggested that if you could get a light enough pink (I wasn't quite able to), you might be able to color-correct for the green corona and get a nice white.
You will of course, reduce overall lumens. Anyway, color compensation seemed like an alternative to throwing away the all the green luxeons. Just a thought.
Photography filters are going to be too large and expensive to use with the LS, but if you are looking for the same effect on the cheap, you may be able to do it if you have access to an inkjet printer and color transparencies. I don't, but experiments with a magenta highlighter and a transparency suggested that if you could get a light enough pink (I wasn't quite able to), you might be able to color-correct for the green corona and get a nice white.
You will of course, reduce overall lumens. Anyway, color compensation seemed like an alternative to throwing away the all the green luxeons. Just a thought.