I swear, they like to live in a news studio-level brightness. Its all overhead lighting and bright, cool light at night
Absolute sensory hell for me.
Straw poll: which looks better?
Theyre both too brightly lit imo but the warm is definitey nicer. I want to escape any room place lit like the right
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Now, imagine its like the cool white, but its even brighter and o’erhead💀
Skeleton’s be cool white…
I only want that cool day light for putting on makeup purposes. Otherwise it can fuck right off🤣
Left is better for night time, right is better for daytime. Aggressive overhead lighting is the devil though, you’re right there.
Older people or just people? What is older to you, 35, 40?
Im 54 and dont have any shitty lighting like you show in your picture. Maybe go touch grass before exclaiming things about “old” people.
As one ages, their eyesight gets worse. Lots of light helps. In the warm light I wouldn’t be able to read anything, knit, do crosswords or a whole number of activities. I’d still need to sit on the end of the sofa with the lamp in the cool light one to do much. The real annoyance? I still have 20/20 vision but I feel that I can’t see half of what I could when I was younger.
I carry a small flashlight in my purse just in case I’m at a restaurant with bad lighting and terrible contrast on the menu.
20/20 vison but lower acuity of when younger
Thats insane, my vision is emphatically not 20/20 but since an eaye is nearsighted, i think it helps improve my low light reading somehow. I dunno, !RemindMe 10 years haha
I have smart lights so I can adjust them to my mood.
They’re usually green and purple even though there’s no such thing as purple light.
Kitchen/utility/work spaces -> bright cool light
Living room/relaxation spaces -> warm light
Mixed use -> bright cool ceiling light with standing warm light lamps.
Generally speaking…
In utilitarian areas, warm/cold light is less important than light with a high color rendering index.
When I got my first flashlight with a high CRI light source, I was amazed at how much of a difference it made, it makes everything far more visible.
Any examples of bulbs?
Not really, I just look for markings on the box when buying them.
They tend to be marked with either HI CRI or HIGH CRI.
For your consideration: Warm orange
Thats the good shit
Black is the new orange?
Hey, my black light isn’t even in frame
Warm white is always better in a home situation.
I see younger people doing the same.
It’s not an age thing necessarily.
I’d also argue someone older is more likely to have better lighting due to:
Experience
Time to learn
Exposure
Available time
Money
all of these answers are fine. but they are all wrong.
older people have been buying lightbulbs for many years and all they had to know was the brightness that they wanted. now that led has fully arrived, there are color temp questions to be answered that were not asked before. older people do not know the answer to this question and just buy for brightness.
also, my mom swears that she likes and can see better with ugly ass 6000k lights everywhere and i feel like im at the grocery store when i go to my parents’ house.
my mom swears that she likes and can see better with
This right here, for some older people, the “warm” light is not bright enough to see correctly. I still prefer to have almost no light at 50 but neither of my parents could cope with it as they would be effectively blind, I can still make stuff out.
the thing is, bright is bright and cooler is cooler. warm can be bright and cool can be dim.
Dim cool is easier to read with than bright warm, for aging folks, due to contrast difference.
I have a suspicion there’s an element of marketing over time involved. Companies in the olden days would advertise brighter, harsher light as ‘really seeing.’ It sucks because this idea has made vehicle headlights into glare producing crap.
I’ve noticed as I age that I can’t read things in low light anymore. For reading small print or seeing small details I need rhe equivalent of indoor daylight. At night, in a room lit with a single light fixture, that means more light.
But warm light, that harsh blue shit can fuck right off.
We put these full spectrum grow bulbs in our lamps because they have a yellow LED to make the white LEDs closer to really daylight look. SANSI Daylight LED Grow Light… https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07S2P69VC
I really dont get the appeal. Prison lighting
It’s not terrible lighting. It’s lighting that suits us instead of you.
Do you reject the newsroom comparison?
I’ve never been in a newsroom so don’t have the information to answer that.
They are bright and the opposite of claustrophic as fuck, like being in an open savannah
Oh yeah. My son put those in his house. It almost hurts my eyes to be in there.
Almost like as you get older, your low light vision worsens dramatically.
Kinda makes sense, altho I wonder if they also just dont notice or feel the impulse that they can just change whatever the default lighting situation is also
Pupils dilate in darker lighting, the bigger the aperture, the narrower the depth of field get. if you have old eyes that aren’t as good at focusing anymore, narrowing the aperture will cheat that and allow sharper focus, but you need more light to do it.
You can see this if you have an old SLR camera with DOF preview, and focus on a scene with object both close and far. As you close down the aperture (move it to a higher number say 2->16), you’ll see more and more of the scene simultaneously in focus, but it will also get darker and darker.
That’s why old people make rooms brighter. It’s easier on their eyes if they wish to see things in focus.
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Actually, my one eye nearsighted and i noticed if I physically focus it by using my fingers to create a smaller “aperture”, i can actually see farther with the nearsighted one!
Nice, squinting does a similar thing with your eyelids.
Go find some cheap pinhole glasses. They really demonstrate how vision is not just a mechanical thing.
THANK YOU. Always think this! Shadows are not a bad thing, it’s okay to have darker corners! It’s not only the brightness either. For everyone saying “we need it brighter”, I have both neighbors and elderly family who use single fluorescent lights to putter around their homes. They have VERY dark homes, just one giant harsh spotlight that shows their one area and then surrounded by dark all around their house.
We have several lamps and warm lights scattered through the house, it’s very bright but also never feels like you’re in an office or a garage. A simple warm light in the corner can make it feel brighter without needing hundreds of lumens from directly above.
You think you want daylight. You don’t. You want warm more natural lighting.
