Billy mentions this morning the compact fluorescent lamp [1]. I went to some length on this subject, [1] several days ago, sometime around the beginning of the month. One topic I didn’t get into, with regards to those units (old habit, I still call them lighting units) is the color they generate. Billy, understandably, doesn’t like them for that reason. He’s a lighting technician; I would expect that kind perfectionism of a professional, Particularly one who apparently knows his stuff as Billy seems to. (Sadly, I’ve never seen the man’s work)
That said, there are CFL’s and CFL’s so far as color goes. I found that the color output of such units is anything but consistent, brand to brand and apparently, from production run to production run, for that matter. I have one over my desk, here, that actually works quite well as far as color goes. Surprisingly enough it doesn’t get into arguments with my CRT’s either, as regular commercial fluorescent lights have a tendency to do. The CFL it replaced, tended toward the blue side, and had a flicker on it that made one think they were watching old- time movie.
With those two examples in mind, it would seem that the problems that he’s mentioning are not universal; and as such I wonder if the eventually such problems couldn’t be dealt with technologically. I don’t know, but it strikes me that we’re possibly dealing with the arguments that the soldering irons and hum- heads had years ago, between digital and analog audio.
Afterthought:(Bit) At least, if the technology improves as seems possible, what the argument would be raised, to, anyway. I should have mentioned, the color quality on the majority of what I see today, is garbage. Given that I see the occasional one slipping through that really isn’t all that bad, it seems possible to create them all that way, from a technological standpoint. But, they’re not there yet.