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----- Original Message ----- From: "roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:56 AM Subject: Re: Riding to Guggenheim, now Lights > > From: Dave Biasotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Riding to Guggenheim, now Lights > > > > I'm running PIAA's newest H4 bulb called "Extreme White" which is a step > > up from the "Super white" bulb. Puts out a light intensity of 4150 K and > > is definitely a lot more white, not as "yellow" as the previous one. > > Dave, > > That 4150 K should mean "kelvin degrees", i. e., color temperature of the > light, not intensity. Color temperature is a measurement of how yellowish or > bluish a certain light is, with standard daylight being 5500 K. Household > bulbs range from 2800 to 3200 K (orangish), the flash on your pocket camera > about 6500 K (bluish, hence the pale skin tones in many flash pics), and so > on. 4150 K is quite white, approaching sunlight (5000 K or so). But, it has > nothing to do with output intensity. To find that out, you should look for a > number expressed in lux, lumens, or usually in the US, footcandles (those > three are not the same thing, but they are all related to intensity). > > I don't know about that "European contact", but my GTS (a red-blooded > Spanish one) does have a two-bulb job, as all of the European ones, I > believe. > > Best, > > Roberto. > > PS: In our "Art of the motorcycle" exhibit at the Guggenheim museum in > Bilbao they had a blue one. Probably to get'er to keep still... >
