How Many Photographers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb
May 20, 2021 16:26:12 #
TheShoe wrote:
And there would be a 6 day conversation about gray market light bulbs.
...and GE vs. Sylvania vs. Tungsram...
May 20, 2021 16:47:10 #
dsmeltz wrote:
300
One to worry about which bulb is better.
Three to offer useful advice based on the first one's stated needs.
296 to hijack the thread and talk about RAW vs. JPEG.
One to worry about which bulb is better.
Three to offer useful advice based on the first one's stated needs.
296 to hijack the thread and talk about RAW vs. JPEG.
I got a chuckle from this post!!
May 20, 2021 17:12:22 #
smussler
Loc: Land O Lakes, FL - Formerly Miller Place, NY
burkphoto wrote:
I believe in the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule). About 20% of the advice may have some merit. The rest is hearsay, innuendo, filler, puffery, misleading, irrelevant, or downright wrong. We are each capable of contributing to either group of answers.
I am very surprised at your response. I was expecting something doing with reading the fine manual for the bulb . . .
May 20, 2021 17:39:27 #
joer wrote:
What was I thinking...
NOW HE ASKS............OH MY !
May 20, 2021 17:52:59 #
May 20, 2021 18:20:52 #
smussler wrote:
I am very surprised at your response. I was expecting something doing with reading the fine manual for the bulb . . .
Rolling on the floor laughing!
May 20, 2021 21:08:59 #
May 20, 2021 21:29:35 #
May 20, 2021 22:16:50 #
Sidwalkastronomy
Loc: New Jersey Shore
dsmeltz wrote:
The trash can? I do not think they are recyclable.
I think LEDS have mercury should be put something. I imanage people throw them in trash
May 21, 2021 07:09:05 #
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
I think LEDS have mercury should be put something. I imanage people throw them in trash
And what make you think that they have mercury in them?
I think they're made out of lightning bug guts.
May 21, 2021 09:29:28 #
May 21, 2021 09:54:02 #
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
there was talk about disposing them
From what I've seen, LED bulbs go in the trash.
I can't envision them containing any mercury. CFLs do though.
May 21, 2021 09:55:50 #
Longshadow wrote:
And what make you think that they have mercury in them?
I think they're made out of lightning bug guts.
I think they're made out of lightning bug guts.
Rolling on the floor laughing!
But seriously, LEDs aren't the problem. *Fluorescent* lamps of all kinds contain mercury. They are hazardous to health if broken, and environmentally dangerous unless recycled properly. That's why, at our house, we've gone from incandescents (hot power hogs) to CFLs (cool, power efficient, but environmentally dangerous) to LEDs (very cool and power efficient and relatively safe). The visual appearance of rooms lit with LEDs is slightly different, but nothing like the whiners say it is.
Mercury is an extremely poisonous metal. I don't want it around. So when LED fixtures and bulbs fell in price and rose in spectral quality, I started buying them.
A side benefit of LED bulbs is that most contain no glass. Break one, and you don't get mercury or shards of glass all over!
We have many dozens of lighting devices in our house. Whatever our lighting power expense was in 2014 (nearly all incandescent), we have cut that to one seventh by switching to LEDs where possible. That also reduced the load on the A/C in summer.
May 21, 2021 13:06:32 #
robertperry wrote:
Even if the bulb still works, buy the latest and greatest to satisfy the GAS syndrome.
GAS is not an illness! It is a blessing!
May 21, 2021 13:08:23 #
l-fox wrote:
Meditate and distill Truth from the Confusion. 
"Go placidly amid the noise and waste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof"
National Lampoon's, Deteriorata
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