cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tenforward/p/1493398/the-plague-continues
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- _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
The ironic part is that the lights used to create light that bright used to be huge ridiculous multi-killowatt-range lamps that almost made more heat than light. It’s sad that assholes tarnished the good name of the humble LED :(
- Ariselas@piefed.caEnglish12 days
I had a set of 1000w halogen lamps for photography, absolute lovely light, but yeah, they would heat up the studio in no time at all and if you forgot to put on a glove, you’d burn off your finger prints adjusting the barn doors. I eventually switched to photo strobes.
Lots of photographers love LEDs now, but I just can’t get into them, and still use strobes.
- sunsofold@lemmy.zipEnglish12 days
All high kelvin lights suck, regardless of type.
Also, fucking, just because some fucking fuckwit censored it.
- 11 days
You are allowed to say fuck on the internet. Stop this.
11 dayscan we please stop acting like the way the light is produced somehow magically makes it worse?
It’s the fact that the lamps are ILLEGAL AFTERMARKET MODIFICATIONS that makes them bad. You should not be able to walk into a gas station and buy things that are ILLEGAL to put in your car.
There are plenty of people driving around with LED lights in their cars, you just don’t think about it because they meet the legal specifications and thus look identical.- fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish11 days
I doubt this is as much of an issue in Europe, but here in the States the headlights of the average pavement princess (large truck that hasn’t ever seen a day of work) shines directly into the rearview mirror of a regular height car. Nothing aftermarket at all, just stupidly large vehicles being a nuisance.
I still prefer halogen bulbs because they’re so inexpensive to replace, while if your LED goes bad it’s gonna be expensive costly.
i see no actual reason why LED lamps should still be more expensive than halogen, that just sounds like companies fleecing you
- fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish11 days
Because with LED any issue requires a new lamp, the whole thing. With halogen bulbs you can simply replace the bulb or malfunctioning piece and it’ll cost significantly less. Had a clip break on an LED and the only fix was a whole new assembly.
again, that’s not a fundamental issue, that’s shit design to fleece you on money. It’s like landlords installing self-contained LED fixtures that lock you out of switching the bulb yourself.
From what i can tell this isn’t a problem in europe, there are plenty of replacement LED bulbs available.
- pahlimur@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
We bought a 2024 volvo recently and it comes with LED headlights. They are hilariously accurate with their beam pattern. Bright as fuck everywhere except the oncoming lane, it almost looks like a defect when driving on an empty road.
European cars with LED headlights are fine because they have to actually prove to their government they pass headlight standards. In the US the manufacturer only has to say they did the regulation. European cars mostly chose to only make European approved headlights.
- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
no, because it is worse
perfectly legal stock headlights here in Canada are absolutely blindingly bright
- 11 days
More light = more safety, right?
Or: I can see more = I can drive faster.- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
yet they get mad when I turn my LED highbeams on so that neither of us can see
curious…
- pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
You know how old cars with not-that-powerful but totally hazed headlights will blind you? Guess what today’s cars are gonna be like a decade from now…
