Category: Lighting Basics

CRI stands for color rendering index. But before we can really understand what CRI is we first have to understand what COLOR is. The photographer Paul Outerbridge observed “No object of itself alone has color. We know that even the most brightly colored object, if taken into total darkness,...

If for some odd reason you’ve been just shopping around for LED lamps (that’s fancy jargon for “light bulbs”) just for the fun of it, you may have seen on the side of the box a number somewhere between 2700K and 6500K and wondered to yourself “What on earth...