What you're used to is an incandescent light bulb, with a fairly faithful blackbody radiation curve. Fluorescent bulbs, well, fluoresce, at several distinct wavelengths. These fluorescent wavelengths have been chosen to combine and give something that looks like a complete white spectrum to the human eye, but they are of course only distinct wavelengths, and this may cause some objects to reflect light differently, and change colour.
The good news, though, is that there are many different "colours" of CFLs, which whave different phosphors in the bulb, to fluoresce at different frequencies. Have you looked at the light emitted from any of the "warm" CFLs? Be sure to look at different brands, because it's likely that the perceived colour temperature will be slightly different on each of them.
We've purchased some more expensive CFLs, as well as some from the dollar store. The dollar store bulbs look positively blue next to the more expensive ones.
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Date: Wednesday, 31 October 2007 01:35 pm (UTC)The good news, though, is that there are many different "colours" of CFLs, which whave different phosphors in the bulb, to fluoresce at different frequencies. Have you looked at the light emitted from any of the "warm" CFLs? Be sure to look at different brands, because it's likely that the perceived colour temperature will be slightly different on each of them.
We've purchased some more expensive CFLs, as well as some from the dollar store. The dollar store bulbs look positively blue next to the more expensive ones.