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"White" light sources are generally not really white. For example compared to sunlight ordinary light bulbs are a bit orange and fluorescent tubes have a green
by pepve 12y ago
"White" light sources are generally not really white. For example compared to sunlight ordinary light bulbs are a bit orange and fluorescent tubes have a green hue. Our brain mostly ignores these differences, but a camera sensor does not. The author might have turned up the saturation on these images though, I don't know how strong the difference is supposed to look.
- moogleii 12y agoSomewhat related: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/las_new_led_streetlights_are_changing_the_way_movies_look_1.php http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/02/las_new_led_streetligh... NYC is supposed to complete its switch to LEDs by 2017 (but no idea on the current progress)
- foz 12y agoStreet lamps in NYC are mostly the old-school sodium lights still, which give the eerie yellow hue to the smaller side streets. I with that when they switch to LEDs that they keep that would keep that color (but they wont).