Phillips Hugh Bloom Review: Decorative lighting without brightness

The manufacturer’s decorative lamps never thank you for their light quality. Previous generation Bloom, Iris or Cowin CRI (color rendering index) never matched the manufacturer’s bulbs. These lights are not used as home lights, but we can easily forgive them for being used as an auxiliary lighting solution. So, forget about the idea of ​​wanting to turn it into a desk lamp or main light in the living room. Ideally, you can use it as a bed lamp until you read it before you go to sleep.

To evaluate the quality of light, we make two measurements. At about 2700 K for the first time (warm light, equivalent to the color temperature of a candle) and then at 6500 K for a second (cold light, larger than the sun at peak). In this Hugh Bloom, the temperature of warm white is 2500 K and cold up to 5777 K. So it was at this color temperature that we conducted our experiments.

The color reproduction code refers to the pattern of a light spectrum. 90 is consistent for good rearrangement and perfect regulation of color shades; Bloom shows a very average CRI of 54 in warm light, but it is very good in cool light since it reaches 85. Because the older generation received IRCs with very low scores in our comparison (10 in warm white, 21 in cool white). In this bloom, the cool white passed exactly, but the warm white is still below our expectations; We can see it with the naked eye, everything is ஞ்சு orange!

Philips has increased the light intensity of this bloom, which now transmits 239 lux (against 63 lux) at 1 m, at its highest intensity, in cool white. This lamp cannot even be used to illuminate or read an entire room, as it is far from the recommended 500 lux for this function.