SoLux: The Answer to BAD Lighting 
SoLux: The Answer to BAD Lighting
A world class example of "BAD Lighting" is the Mona Lisa at The Louvre in Paris France. Recently, there have been reports this famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci is showing signs of aging. No Wonder!! When last visited a couple years ago, the painting was illuminated by what appeared to be warm white fluorescent lights and there were no restrictions on flash photography. Fluorescent lights are a known emitter of ultraviolet light and the combined exposure of easily hundreds of thousands of camera flashes would be enough to take the smile off of anyone's face.
SoLux is committed to providing the very best lighting for precious items such as the Mona Lisa and mundane items such as the wardrobe in your closet. Yet, it all matters because this is the world we live in and increasingly we are being asked to spend more of it indoors under lighting that is supplied by fluorescent and metal halide based sources largely to the detriment of our well being. When it comes to lighting your home, your desk, seeing true colors, alleviating the effects of seasonal affective disorder, whenever or where ever daylight is needed, there is only one source that delivers what it promises, SoLux.
SoLux is a patented light source that provides an unparalleled replication of natural daylight. Click here for technical data.
A partial list of SoLux users include the Guggenheim, the Van Gogh Museum, the National Gallery of Art, The Library of Congress, BASF, Kodak, Dupont, Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore Paint, Christian Bernard, Rolex, Gucci,... .
Industrial users, homeowners, students, museums/galleries, and stores use SoLux because it provides a superior light for QC work, living areas, reading, artwork, jewelry, clothing and textiles. Some of the hottest areas for SoLux use are: light therapy, underwater diving, and for digital color proofing.
Color Rendering Index (CRI) is one indicator of that ability, and a CRI of 100 is considered perfect. SoLux bulbs have virtually perfect CRIs of over 98 and 99. The best measure of source's ability to replicate daylight is it's spectrum. This makes SoLux the best light available for seeing true colors.
Here is a sampling of what has been written about SoLux:
Chris Murphy from Color Remedies (www.colorremedies.com), well known color expert for the graphics market and co-author of Real World Color Management.
“There is only one bulb that I have come across so far that is the closest to simulating the D50 spectral power distribution, the SoLux 4700K lamp."
When is the last time you heard someone, especially an art critic say something good about museum lighting? This was written by the Independent, a British publication, about SoLux used at the Van Gogh Museum to illuminate Van Gogh and Gauguin masterpieces:
The show will delight Van Gogh and Gauguin groupies and academics alike, for the best gourmet-gourmand reason: the paintings seem naked, new and endless...the hi-tech radiance (SoLux) that shines down on The Sower, and other paintings, is thoroughly democratic, there is no bias towards bleak chaos; the slightest variation in colour density, the plasticity or patterning of brush strokes, even the micro-thin shadow lines - all are even-handedly revealed. And, in most of Van Gogh's canvases and later Gauguin's, all seems forever young... the effect is electrifying: the paint still looks wet; one waits instinctively for a waft of linseed.
In addition to the superior color rendering abilities, SoLux has been engineered to have very low heat (IR) output and ultra-low UV output. That combined aspect of extremely high color rendering and extremely low UV and low IR is extraordinary. It means that with SoLux, you will have the brilliance of daylight without the negatives aspects of UV and IR.
Contact us by telephone or email us with specific questions and we will do our best to make sure you get the SoLux bulb that will provide the absolute best presentation to what ever it is you want to illuminate.