Born from an artist’s eye
Lumicrest was founded in 2008 by an artist and digital animator with a simple conviction: that the right light changes everything.
Our conviction has driven 18 years of work across some of North America’s most demanding and prestigious lighting environments, including major exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA), Michelin-starred restaurants in Toronto and New York, luxury hospitality at the Venetian Hotel Las Vegas, and professional film and television productions including Star Trek and The Boys.
We don’t carry fifty different brands. We carry one. It’s called Lumicrest. It’s not a place to find decorative fixtures, chandeliers, or ornamental lighting. Just a place to find The Right Light.
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Our veteran lighting expert David covers the details of our Apturi III track light.
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Experience True Colours with High CRI Lighting
CRI is a measure of how complete the colour spectrum is in a beam of white light, and how well colours will be represented when illuminated by that light. The higher the number the better.
LED lights typically found in big box stores will have a CRI of around 80 or even less. These would be wholly unsuitable for critical applications.
A CRI above 90 is considered the minimum for use in an application where accurate colour rendering is a must, such as in art galleries, museums or retail apparel displays.
So if it’s important to you that all the colours in your art, furniture, retail displays etc. be vibrant and fully visible, then you want the highest CRI you can get … Continue reading
Apturi III: All lights in the Apturi famly are Beam-adjustable you can adjust them at anytime from a 10° spotlight to 60° wall floodlight. No more changing lenses, Apturi has them all in one.
If you only want one lens beam angle such as with Modulux, see below:
Selecting the most appropriate lens beam angle can sometimes be confusing. When to choose a wide beam lens and when to choose a narrow beam lens? The video helps you understand the differences and make the best choice.
What lens angle should I choose? This handy Beam Angle Calculator helps you determine the effect of different beam angles and different positions for your light fixtures.
Want to change the lens angle on a Lumicrest LED light? Watch this short video on how to swap the lenses on Lumicrest LED lights.
Still not sure? Contact us at 416.479.0132 or through our contact form and let us know what you’re trying to achieve. We’re glad to help!
The “colour temperature” of any white light indicates the shade of white.
Very Warm White – Warm White – Soft White – Natural Soft White – Natural White – Pure White – Cool White
(actual colour may vary due to screen settings, best to see in-person)
“Warm white” generally means a yellow-ish type of white, and “cool white” means a blue-ish kind of white. Somewhere in between lies “daylight white”, which is pretty much the whitest kind of white. Cool, warm and daylight are pretty imprecise terms though. A more accurate system indicating the tint of the light is called the colour temperature, or Correlated Colour Temperature (CCT).
A standard incandescent lightbulb is rather yellowish at about 2,700K and a normal halogen is slightly “cooler/whiter” in color, about 3,000K.
For interior lighting in homes, especially in the Western world we have grown accustomed to incandescent and halogen lighting, so we have a comfort with the “warm” colours they produce.
In more industrial settings, and for higher intensity lighting ie. “high bay” lighting, higher color temperatures of 4,500 to 5,000K are accepted. Metal Halide lights (HID) have traditionally been employed for this application, but of course LEDs are now available to do this job more efficiently.
Some specialty applications such as jewelery case lighting often use “cool” bluish lights of 6,500K or higher, in order to accentuate the sparkle and clarity of diamonds, silver and jewels.
Integrated Track Heads are mainly 3000K (as it’s the most popular CCT).
2700K is similar to the color of a regular incandescent or halogen light, which looks a little yellow or “warm”. 3000K is a little bit more white, but is still in the “warm” range. 4000K is approaching sunlight colour temperatures, but still a bit on the warm side. …Continue reading