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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by smcleod on Friday May 27, 2022 @09:44PM (#31536867)
Completely agree, fantastic lights and worth every penny, their CRI is high enough to fill out the visible light spectrum nicely - you don't get any "indoor greys" and they seem to last forever, several of my bulbs are over 10 years old and still working perfectly.
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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by haneul on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:08PM (#31537262)
I had a contrary response to the Hue. The color rendition felt dead compared to my typical lighting from Waveform.
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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by oxplot on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:12AM (#31537545)
Absolutely. I have a bunch of waveform light strips (the highest CRI) which I use for specific lighting conditions (e.g. taking photos) and it's the difference between literally night and day. I'm also using them for plants and they love it!

The only downside is their rather expensive cost so I'm yet to replace all my lighting with it, but it's a great investment given that it'll probably outlast me and so won't need to change them.

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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by smcleod on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:25PM (#31537341)
Did you have the >90 or >80 CRI bulbs?
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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by haneul on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:09AM (#31537533)
The white and color ambience bulbs, whatever CRI those are (2019).
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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by AuryGlenz on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:02AM (#31537502)
I put one up in my photo studio because I wanted some 6500k lights, and there’s no way it was actually white at 6500k. I forget what color it was tinged with but it was super obvious.

I suspect they’re only high CRI at certain color temperatures?

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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by smcleod on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:42AM (#31537667)
Yeah that absolutely could be true, I only really switch between 2-3 different colours / temperatures.
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Re:Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and ... by marvin on Saturday May 28, 2022 @07:47AM (#31539554)
This is my impression too. I’m not good at photography, but it does seem quite un-white.
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