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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 17, 2005 01:32 AM

Now I got disturbed with my ordinary bulb, since it is only EFR (12v 100w) resulting warmth color tempurature produced by this tungsteen light. Someone suggested to put filter in front of the lens. So what is the correct filter to whiten the light?

Thanks for your suggestion.

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

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From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted November 18, 2005 12:43 AM

I would think you'd want to go with something with a very light bluish hue to put in front of the lens.
But IMHO, EFP 12V/100W put out the same white tungsten light that EFR (150W) and ELC (24V/250W) bulbs do... just with less brightness of course. The only proper way to get a whiter (cooler) light, as far as I know, is to go with xenon lamps.

What brought on the sudden dissatisfaction with your EFP bulb, I wonder?...

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 18, 2005 08:15 AM

Winbert,

You might want to try one of these color conversion filters. As Jan said, light blue would be the way to go to reduce warmth.

82A,B,C

The 82A is the lightest blue, with the smallest amount of light loss (approx. 1/3 of a stop).

There's also the 80 series (80A,B,C): color compensating filters that subdue or suppress predominantly warm or reddish tinges but these are darker and would eat up quite a chunk of that 100 watter.

Doug

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