There are many brands of lighting gear providing a full range of neon lights calibrated to a various colours temperatures and spectrums.
Those I remembered were Phillips with one 6 000 K and Osram with a 6 500 K.
But there is a more fundamental question: witch "daylight" are you talking about?
As Niel wrote in a past post daylight colour's temperature could vary from 2 800 K to 16 000 K depending of latitude season, weather and so long.
In graphic arts we have three standardised colours 5 000 K, 6 500 K and 9 500 K you could add 5 500 K and some more I don't remember for incandescent and halogen for photogs. We need standards because we needs reproducible and foreseeable results.
As a painter you don't need to reach any standart, and with this issue you are the only one who have to take a decision. I suggest you test the available, and some combinations of the neon tube in a range of 5 000 to 9 500 K.
All the light furniture brands have a catalogue where you can pick neon sorted by size and colours so you may choose and mix to fill your need. The main issue I found in France is some of them (6 500 K) are mainly sold in a package of one hundred, witch despite the low price of an unit makes the buying expensive.
I would like to rise an other issue: is the colour temperature enough to describe the colour of a light? With CR and C1 we have two settings for targeting the CT, ct and tint. Is it the same with neon? Have some brands a more "neutral" light even set at the same temperature?
Regarding the bulbs, I think it could be a good idea for the background but I guess neon will provide a widest range of wavelength.
For what it worth, if it doesn't change your live I hope it could help.
Best regards.
Fernand Ivaldi
Le 13 janv. 04, � 12:56, Lodge, Phillips a �crit :
The best thing I find to work under is the blue "daylight" bulbs available from art shops. A table lamp with one of these in, on my computer desk helps give the working area a more natural ambiance. I also usually supplement this bulb with the whitish light of low voltage QI type table lamps.
If somebody can tell me a better way of getting "daylight" from a lamp, it could change my life.....
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