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Re:LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplem... by kuschku on Monday January 26, 2026 @07:44AM (#46764963)
There's a massive difference between the 2600K of regular incandescent bulbs, and the 6000K of sunlight. That's why hollywood used HMIs until they migrated to LED.
Re:LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplem... by nicoburns on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:15AM (#46765256)
There is, but most humans are used to the spectral pattern of black body radiators at all color temperatures. Be that sunlight at higher temperatues or fires / candlelight at lower temperatures.
Re:LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplem... by kuschku on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:31AM (#46765403)
Regular exposure to fire/candlelight has only existed for a hundredthousand years, while mitochondria have existed almost unchanged for millions of years.

So even that assumption would require further study.

Re:LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplem... by scythe on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:23AM (#46765988)
For professional applications there are sulfur plasma lamps which have a continuous spectrum at high efficiency. Unfortunately they aren't economical below about 1000 watts which is impractical for many applications.

The technology basically works by continuously microwaving (think oven) a small amount of sulfur gas. The development of solid-state microwave emitters — most microwave generation is still done with vacuum tubes — might help miniaturize the devices. However, it's hard to beat the simplicity of an LED.

Re:LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplem... by zahirbmirza on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:40AM (#46766178)
wow - had no idea these things existed, fascinating.