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Old 01-08-13 | 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by cplager
One comment about brightness: The (human) eye basically has a logarithmic sensitivity to light. So if light A i putting out twice as many lumens as light B, our eyes will not register the light A as being twice as bright.
See, I didn't know that! I suspected something like that, though, which is why I tried to qualify my impressions by saying the difference between the two was not as significant as I expected, yet fully understanding my expectations were not all that well-informed and probably tainted by all the lumen hype and focus that has been going around.
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