OT:Edit Bay lighting

snicholshms wrote on 10/24/2004, 7:57 PM

What kind of light bulb should we use in the track lights in our edit bays? Halogen standard, halogen "daylight" or standard flood? Does it make a difference during color correction? The bays are painted black so there's no "color influence" on the SONY monitors. Thanks for any help on this.

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Chienworks wrote on 10/25/2004, 4:08 AM

The monitors emit their own light rather than reflecting room light. As long as you don't have glare on the screen it shouldn't make much difference. Your brain will adjust it's color perception to the area your eyes are focusing on.

farss wrote on 10/25/2004, 4:16 AM

If you are doing serious CC it is absolutely essential that the area behind the monitors is painted absolute flat white and lit with daylight lighting. Any color adjacent to or that reflects light into the work area will affect your perception of what white really is.
Your eyes need constnat calibration, anything other than pure white changes their white balance. This issue is so important that in full blown CC suites even the waveform monitors and vectorscopes use special CRTs with white rather than green phosphor.
Now maybe you don't need to go to all that trouble and expense but that is the ideal so work back from that. Just as an audio mix needs to be monitored not only though good speakers but also in a room minus reflections so does video.

Bob.