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This has stirred up many debates around here whenever we have people over and I bring out the streetlights. Personally, I see SOX lamps as a very BRIGHT VIVID yellow, much like this:  However; some other family members see SOX as a deep orange, and absolutely detest the light put off by them:  This goes for HPS as well, where I see a yellowish white lamp , they see an orangish white lamp  . This is probably why I like the colour of LPS so much! I wonder if it has anything to do with eye colour? I have blue eyes, and see it as yellow. My Dad also has blue eyes, and sees it as yellow. However on my Mom's side of the family who mostly has brown-hazel eyes, they see orange. I know for a fact that it's not just subjective opinions on what colours are either. I once held up a yellow handled screwdriver that EVERYONE agreed was yellow. When I told them that's the colour that I saw, they couldn't believe me. Just curious to hear how everyone else perceives SOX lamps or just sodium in general as it sure varies person to person! |
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LPS is deep yellow from my perspective, I love being around them. But my grandpa (who lived around SOX lights back in the 80s) hates them though, it makes everything around him look like mud and he’ll probably strangle me if I put one near him lol.  |
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| I’ve always been intrigued when people see yellow, as I have always seen orange, even with HPS, I don’t see any yellow in either!
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| Hmm I wasn't sure so I'd decide to light some lamps to find out. Anyway SOX to me is more like a amber yellow, maybe with a bit of orange. HPS on the other hand looks like a pure yellow, maybe golden yellow depending on the lamp.
Interesting that some of you guys see yellow, I've always considered SOX to be more orange than yellow if you asked me to pick between the two.
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I see LPS as deep amber or golden, if you will. If I'm in a room with it long enough, it does appear to brighten, but If I look at it through a camera with colour correction, the room quickly goes back to the amber colour. This is pretty much exactly how it appears to me. I did do this again with a higher wattage lamp, see here. While it looked exactly like the first in person, albeit much brighter, the brightness made the camera autocorrect slightly making it appear a lighter yellow. HPS, once warm, doesn't have much of an orange tinge to me. I see it as ultra warm white. |
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I'd say it's bananananananananana (sorry, never know when to stop with that word  ) coloured. |
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I see LPS as deep amber or golden, if you will. If I'm in a room with it long enough, it does appear to brighten, but If I look at it through a camera with colour correction, the room quickly goes back to the amber colour. This is pretty much exactly how it appears to me. I did do this again with a higher wattage lamp, see here. While it looked exactly like the first in person, albeit much brighter, the brightness made the camera autocorrect slightly making it appear a lighter yellow.
HPS, once warm, doesn't have much of an orange tinge to me. I see it as ultra warm white.
If I’m in a room with SOX for long enough, I start seeing green everywhere!, anyone else ever seen this?  |
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| Only if I've looked straight at the lantern for several minutes and I leave the room. That phenomenon is quite rare for me as I almost always have my computer on when the SOX lamp's in use. The screen light isn't bright enough to overpower the SOX anywhere in the room, so I still get the full effect, but there is a colour reference.
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| I see SOX lamps as a deep yellowish orange with almost monochrome colour rendering
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| From my experience, I see high pressure sodium lamps emitting a bland orange hue while I see low pressure sodium lamps emitting a deep orange hue.
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I have blue-grey eyes and I see LPS/SOX and HPS as orange. A kid of desatured/brownish orange, between orange and amber, comparable to the one of an old dried orange fruit. But the colour I see is orange. I have a Manker LED flashlight that is advised as "yellow" and that has a LED that the manufacturer describes as "converted yellow". The tint of this light is visually similar to the HPS light (590nm, although not monochromatic), to me it's orange, somewhat amber, definitively not yellow! |
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