[Radiance-general] Re: spectral measurements

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi,

There are cheap photospectrometers available starting at $1000, but if you want to measure total luminous flux or diffuse reflectance, you will need an integrating sphere. The sphere is the expensive component of such a setup.

Cheers, Lars.

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Dipl.-Ing. Architect Lars O. Grobe

On Sep 23, 2010, at 19:44, "Randolph M. Fritz" <RFritz at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Christoph,
> 
> Imaging technology is awfully cheap these days. I think something could be improvised with standard filters and a moderately-priced camera, but it would take some expertise to design, fabricate, and calibrate.  Design expertise, of course, we have on this list, fabrication and calibration, not so much (at least, I don't think we do.)  Have you thought about wandering over to your local physics department & asking for help?  Or perhaps to MIT?  It might make a good student project.
> 
> Randolph
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> On 2010-09-23 10:05:56 -0700, Reinhart, Christoph said:
> 
>> Dear all:
>>  
>> I am looking for an affordable (<$3000) set of devices that can measure the spectral power distribution of light sources in the visible range as well as wavelength dependant surface reflectances. Does something like this exist? At the NRC we had a $10,000 Minolta spectrometer that measured wavelength dependant diffuse reflectances as well as overall specular reflectance. Are there any more affordable devices? What are you using for light sources?
>>  
>> Christoph
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