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[VAC] Re: Vintage lighting



After I watch a few episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in a row, I get turned on by those yellow parking lights at Walmart.  Ever looked at your partner under that light.  They look positively demonic.  Why?  Because those silly lights lack most of the color values that are needed to constitute a skin tone.  Fluorescent lights do the same thing but to a lesser degree as do Halogen.  Incandescent lighting does a fair job of reproducing the spectrum but even with Thomas Edison's best efforts, it fails to deliver all the colors of shaded sunlight (northlight).
    Since my degree was in photography from RIT the least that I can do is keep my coach as a decent photographic environment.  I am going to follow up the lead from Stephan on full spectral fluorescents and meantime am getting the aftermarket covers for my stock lights from Andy at InlandRV.  It's nice to have a place to go for aftermarket parts.  I hope they thrive and make many more parts for us.
 
Bob Kiger  http://cruiserbob.com
66 Airstream Safari
Mira Mar Mobile Park
Oceanside, CA