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Old 05-20-2008, 01:34 AM   #8 (permalink)
Geoff_T
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Originally Posted by Rainer View Post
No.

But a good reflector and subsequent tight beam, plus color spectrum CAN make up for less lumen output in many cases.

That said, I just saw someone post about a recent 3W back up "appearing" to him to be brighter than his 21W.

And some people claim to have seen UFOs and Big Foot. I don't place too much stock in some people's eye witness accounts.
actually when dealing with light it is the output in foot-candles that is what matters. Your lumen rating will effect this number. see wikipedia for more Foot-candle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Basicaly while the water will filter some wavelengths faster than others effecting perception of strength. The strength of a light can only be measured in foot candles so that you are compareing apples to apples.

now if you wanted to get realy tecnical you could bring a light meter under watter inside a video houseing and compare different types of water and at different depths to see which color tempratures of light fall off faster.
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