Are the color temperatures going to always read close to the temperature of the room?
In photography, and other applications, you will sometimes see what is called a color temperature.
Generally any color temperature other than 2700K will look unnatural in a home setting.
He did pioneering work in measuring the color temperature of stars.
In the desktop publishing industry, it is important to know a monitor's color temperature.
A black body can be described by its color temperature, whose hues are depicted above.
Natural daylight has a high color temperature (approximately 5000 K).
This presented a continuous range of color temperatures to choose a reference from.
Both of the cited standards specify a 6,500 K color temperature.
Flash also eliminates any worry about the color temperature of the lights.
