Further ban on lamps coming up in the EU

It will affect fluorescent but also some incandescant lamps.

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For us photographers likely the most effect will have the ban on TL lamps. Here the 900-series, especially type 954, was of importance so far due to their well spread emission spectrum.
Maybe they fall under the special-use exceptions of the ban, but that still would mean a hassle in availability.

If you are talking about the long fluorescent tubes, ie. the type which has been around for ever and used to be the choice for offices, etc. Well I looked into the special daylight versions offered by Osram and Philips a few years ago. I would have had to buy a box. I guess at least ten. Which is okay, because it could be a life time supply.

But these had already been destined for discontinuation. And when I went back to my bookmarks some time later, the webshops didn't have them in stock already. I've been wondering what will replace them. Don't print shops need 'Normlicht', ie. standardised daylight, anymore for evaluation of print materials?

I'd expect that LED could do the same. After all, those fluorescents are UV lamps, which excite a fluorescent coating. UV LED can be made. What I have been wondering, too, is what the spectrum of those lamps was like. Continuous? If not, the standards must have selected some really suitable groups of peaks to get great illumination for colour evaluation.

Some of the light sources covered in the charts would also include the lights in enlargers (low voltage halogens) and my photo halogen lights for my hot lights. But these are hot burning 3200k (supposedly) lights with limited life span. They will fall under the exemption. The enlarger lamps are also used in optical instruments. But probably only existing ones, not many new devices?

Our lights may not be banned, but will manufacturers still see profit in making them?

With the UK having escaped from the EU, I wonder whether this will affect us. I don't actually see many lamps in there that I use but I will admit to having a stockpile of 250W Carousel bulbs that should see me out and enough 100W bayonet incandescent lamps in the loft to keep me going for a good many years. The domestic LED lamps have been something of a disappointment to me, lasting nowhere near their claimed lifespan.
Steve

Steve Roberts said:

With the UK having escaped from the EU, I wonder whether this will affect us.
Steve

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Well U.K. manufacturers of the bulbs in question could simply continue to make them for the U.K. market assuming that the U.K. government decides that this is OK but the two factors that I see that might mitigate against this are: Would the U.K and possibly the world beyond the EU be demand enough to make it worthwhile and secondly would this be seen by the government as not being in line with our claim to become greener

I do not have the answers unfortunately so yet another uncertainty in our lives as darkroom users.

pentaxuser

Steve Roberts said:

The domestic LED lamps have been something of a disappointment to me, lasting nowhere near their claimed lifespan.

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My experience has been that long straight fluorescent tubes last longer than most of the LED lamps I've used.

lantau said:

If you are talking about the long fluorescent tubes, ie. the type which has been around for ever and used to be the choice for offices, etc. Well I looked into the special daylight versions offered by Osram and Philips a few years ago. I would have had to buy a box. I guess at least ten. Which is okay, because it could be a life time supply.

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I got them from a local lamp&luminaires shop and an electronics shop. In any case off the shelves. But for the lighting of my workshop I stopped buying the 960 type because it was much more expensive and also less in light output than type 840.

But for lightboxes and luminaires for reproduction or for print control they should be standard. But of course the actual print control should be at the type of lighting the print finally be viewed at...

lantau said:

But these had already been destined for discontinuation. And when I went back to my bookmarks some time later, the webshops didn't have them in stock already. I've been wondering what will replace them. Don't print shops need 'Normlicht', ie. standardised daylight, anymore for evaluation of print materials?

I'd expect that LED could do the same. After all, those fluorescents are UV lamps, which excite a fluorescent coating.

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Osram for instance still has TL tube of type 954 listed.
Their own replacement LED-tubes only are of series 800, thus yielding only the average colour rendition of TL tubes, but also LEDs

How is the situation on lamps and bans in the rest of the world?

AgX said:

How is the situation on lamps and bans in the rest of the world?

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I live in California, they're banned.
https://insights.regencylighting.com/california-light-bulb-ban