Re: [Avid-L2] Phillips Hue lights for a monitor backlight?

You need to go for High frequency fluorescent. They multiply up the frequency to make the flicker much less noticeable.

Pat Horridge

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A fellow editor told me he tried some fluorescent back lights and they flickered or made the monitor appear flickery.  He found one little fluorescent fixture that didn't seem to flicker.  I don't know what aspects of a fluorescent tube that would effect it's flickeryness and I wonder if it would depend on AC line frequency vs. monitor frame rate/refresh rate.


On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 03:39 AM, bouke wrote:

Or, why not use fluorescent tubes?

Those are dirt cheap, can have (if you spend a few buck more) a high CRI, produce close to no heat, and can be dimmed with pieces of gaffer tape if needed.

 

Can someone explain why a high CRI is important when the puropse is to the light a one-color wall? I would think the wall only reflects the color it was painted in.

So if that particular color is missing / lower in the light source, it simply would not come back. (And you have a free dimmer :-)

 

 

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On 27 Dec 2019, at 12:20, Pat Horridge <pat@horridge.org.uk> wrote:

Isn't it better and safer to just get 6500K bulbs? And you want a CRI that's as wide as possible.

Re dimming I'd be temped to use ND gel to dim if needed as its less likely to alter the colour temp.

 

 

Pat Horridge

 

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In my recent DolbyVision mastering class it was mentioned that the Phillips Hue Bulbs can be adjusted to proper color temperature for a monitor back light.  It says in the various info I've obtained that the White Ambience Bulb is controlled by blue tooth and it can have a color temp of 27002K to 6500K.  I picked up a couple lights and got them working.  The interface on my new iPhone, yes I finally retired the BlackBerry Torch, and I can swing the color temp but the interface is not set up with a degree Kelvin parameter.  It's either choose a preset or move the icon in a circle with the bottom going more blue white.  I'm assuming the bottom of the circle would be approx 6500K.

 

Anybody played with these bulbs using a real color temp meter or know if there is a way to get a preset that is designed to set the bulbs to 6500K white.

 

They also have dimming and I'm wondering it the dimming would effect color temp.  I know it did on tungsten lamps on the stage.

 

 

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net