6000k or 8000k HID kit?

[black95maro]

Re: 6000k or 8000k HID kit?

lol luckily i have no ricer friends thank god lol

[Bonemaro]

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Pictures are useless, since the camera's white balance is nothing like the human eye. To give you an idea of the color roughly...

Kelvin Degrees
1900 - a candle
2000 - Sun raise or set (known as the Golden Hour in production)
2700 - incandescent light bulb
3200 - halogen studio light
4100 - fluorescent light (it has a green spike though)
4200 - Sun in the morning
6000 - standard overcast sunlight
8000+ - shaded sunlight

[black95maro]

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see thats what i dont understand 6k is standard suncast are u talking about the sun itself or the color the road is......so are you saying the pictures m ake the lights look whiter then to where they are actually bluer in person???

[Bonemaro]

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6000K would be the color the road appears. Not to complicate things, but keep this in mind as well. There's a theory called The Persistence of Color that states that the perception of an objects color to the human eye will depend on the color of any object around it. Here's a classic example. The color in boxes A and B are identical.



My point is, 6000K at night when all you see it a headlight surrounds by black night is going to look completely different than the same 6000K Sunlight on a road.

By the way, my vote was for 6000K. 8000K has too much purple for my liking.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

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anyone has a pic of 6k the looks just like it not just kinda like it but exactly so i know for sure

Post #26. While the light on the top of the garage doesn't look like the right color, the color of the 6000k seems to have been very well captured. The blue line at the top of the light is from the cutoff on my projectors, and doesn't reflect the color of the HID kit.

[Bonemaro]

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anyone has a pic of 6k the looks just like it not just kinda like it but exactly

That's an impossible request, as every computer monitor is different. Go with the 6000K and call it a day. 6000 is like :rock: .

[black95maro]

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well i for sure dont want purple and 6k sounds like the best option so looks like 6k it is

[Bonemaro]

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You wont regret it. :) ...at least the color. Now for blinding people ----->:spank: You know you like it.

[SilverRS96]

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vulcan has 8ks thegr8schlotzky has 6ks and i have 5ks...u pretty much c what every color option u got