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Re: 150mW vs 400mW beam
kind of surprised no1 corrected this thing. i was looking up 400 mw o-like lasers and came on to this page. light doesn't need 10x the power to have a double brightness. hahaha. i dunno about you guys, but i'm sure a 1kilo watt fluorescent bulb would be more than twice as bright as a 100 watt one (typical every day house light). i mean you have a double or tripple light hook up in your house and one of them dies... there's a significant loss of light and that's only a 33-50% lost.
my dad does photography and i remember him telling me double the power means 1 step up in brightness. (assuming all things are equally efficient and the same color) not sure how to best explain it, but he showed me some pics.
not hating or judging anyone, just didn't want people who read this having wrong info. i doubt it takes 10 times the power to get twice as bright as in the every day example i mentioned. i could be wrong and 1 kilo watt is only 2x as bright as a 100 watt house light, but it doesn't make sense to me at least.
kind of surprised no1 corrected this thing. i was looking up 400 mw o-like lasers and came on to this page. light doesn't need 10x the power to have a double brightness. hahaha. i dunno about you guys, but i'm sure a 1kilo watt fluorescent bulb would be more than twice as bright as a 100 watt one (typical every day house light). i mean you have a double or tripple light hook up in your house and one of them dies... there's a significant loss of light and that's only a 33-50% lost.
my dad does photography and i remember him telling me double the power means 1 step up in brightness. (assuming all things are equally efficient and the same color) not sure how to best explain it, but he showed me some pics.
not hating or judging anyone, just didn't want people who read this having wrong info. i doubt it takes 10 times the power to get twice as bright as in the every day example i mentioned. i could be wrong and 1 kilo watt is only 2x as bright as a 100 watt house light, but it doesn't make sense to me at least.
