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Few bulb manufacturers even bother to report CRI, unless it is decent (CRI > 90). If CRI is not reported, you can be sure it's bad, 80 or less. Unfortunately,
by fmajid 4mo ago
Few bulb manufacturers even bother to report CRI, unless it is decent (CRI > 90). If CRI is not reported, you can be sure it's bad, 80 or less.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a way for a consumer to know short of buying a spectrometer like my Sekonic C-800 Spectromaster.
For illustration, I have uploaded a few readings here, mostly flashlights, not LED bulbs: https://majid.info/images/reddit/spectro/ https://majid.info/images/reddit/spectro/
If you look at the Zebralight SC64c LE, for instance, it has an excellent Ra of 92, but only 75 for R9:
https://majid.info/images/reddit/spectro/ZL_SC64cLE/SC64cLE_01_4160K_ColorRendering.png https://majid.info/images/reddit/spectro/ZL_SC64cLE/SC64cLE_...
- wlonkly 4mo ago"C-800 Spectromaster" is exactly how specialized devices like that should be named.
- throw0101a 4mo agoSekonic video on the C-800 (and the standards it can measure CRI, etc): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXqWlUuSNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXqWlUuSNA