HighlanderNorth
Flashlight Enthusiast
**Im not sure whether this is the best place for this thread, or if general lighting would be better. Please move it if necessary.
I didnt think id ever be discussing anything relating to LED lights and eye damage, except for maybe the possibility of eye damage due to staring directly into a 2000+ lumen flashlight for too long. But just as most of us dont sit on our front porches at high noon, while staring directly at the sun for long periods of time, most of us also know better than to stare at high lumen LED's.
That being said, i just stumbled upon a bunch of articles and videos that claim that LED lighting is bad for our eyes, due to their excessive blue light spectrum, and lack of red and some IR spectrum wavelengths. Some of these are authored by alleged scientists and doctors.
Its certainly a possibility that these 'experts' are only aware of the older, cheaper blue tinted LED's, and unaware of the newer, higher quality LED's with warmer, yellow tinted models. But i intentionally watched and read articles and videos from 2017 and newer, and these claims were made at those late dates. Now we have choices of many different LED's, with varying color wavelengths.
Even so, are these people correct in their claims that even the newest, least blue tinted LED's are still lacking in the "important red spectrum wavelengths", while still emitting "potentially damaging blue spectrum wavelengths"? Or is this just a matter of exaggerated sensationalism, or a lack of knowlege about newer LED's? Are there modern, home and office LED bulbs that offer a safe and healthy spectrum of color wavelengths that include red and some IR?
I didnt think id ever be discussing anything relating to LED lights and eye damage, except for maybe the possibility of eye damage due to staring directly into a 2000+ lumen flashlight for too long. But just as most of us dont sit on our front porches at high noon, while staring directly at the sun for long periods of time, most of us also know better than to stare at high lumen LED's.
That being said, i just stumbled upon a bunch of articles and videos that claim that LED lighting is bad for our eyes, due to their excessive blue light spectrum, and lack of red and some IR spectrum wavelengths. Some of these are authored by alleged scientists and doctors.
Its certainly a possibility that these 'experts' are only aware of the older, cheaper blue tinted LED's, and unaware of the newer, higher quality LED's with warmer, yellow tinted models. But i intentionally watched and read articles and videos from 2017 and newer, and these claims were made at those late dates. Now we have choices of many different LED's, with varying color wavelengths.
Even so, are these people correct in their claims that even the newest, least blue tinted LED's are still lacking in the "important red spectrum wavelengths", while still emitting "potentially damaging blue spectrum wavelengths"? Or is this just a matter of exaggerated sensationalism, or a lack of knowlege about newer LED's? Are there modern, home and office LED bulbs that offer a safe and healthy spectrum of color wavelengths that include red and some IR?
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