A recent post on social media went like this: “Attention all lighting manufacturers: Concerning the continuous rise in color temperatures in your discharge lights. Some of us LDs still like the color red.” I spoke with LD Alex Reardon, the originator of the Facebook post, about this lack of saturated colors that seems to be prevalent in today’s market, and the fact that few companies are bothering to address the problem. Here’s his take. “We lighting designers work using color, not just brightness. So it would be rather wonderful if we could have access to the entire spectrum. Manufacturers have done marvelous, quite stunning work on brightness, functionality, and reliability since the dawn of the moving light, but now is a perfect time to expand on those three to include color.”
-LD Alex Reardon, as referenced in Nook Schoenfield’s Editor’s Note, PLSN, July 2017, page 6.
