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  2. Foot-candle - Wikipedia

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    In the US lighting industry, foot-candles are a common unit of measurement used by architects to calculate adequate lighting levels. Foot-candles are also commonly used in the museum and gallery fields in the US, where lighting levels must be carefully controlled to conserve light-sensitive objects such as prints, photographs, and paintings, the colors of which fade when exposed to bright ...

  3. Foot-lambert - Wikipedia

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    A foot-lambert or footlambert (fL, sometimes fl or ft-L) is a unit of luminance in United States customary units and some other unit systems. A foot-lambert equals 1/π or 0.3183 candela per square foot , or 3.426 candela per square meter (the corresponding SI unit ).

  4. Illuminance - Wikipedia

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    The foot-candle is a non-metric unit of illuminance that is used in photography. [5] Illuminance was formerly often called brightness, but this leads to confusion with other uses of the word, such as to mean luminance. "Brightness" should never be used for quantitative description, but only for nonquantitative references to physiological ...

  5. Lux - Wikipedia

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    The corresponding unit in English and American traditional units is the foot-candle. One foot candle is about 10.764 lx. Since one foot-candle is the illuminance cast on a surface by a one-candela source one foot away, a lux could be thought of as a "metre-candle", although this term is discouraged because it does not conform to SI standards ...

  6. Luminance - Wikipedia

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    A tea light-type candle, imaged with a luminance camera; false colors indicate luminance levels per the bar on the right (cd/m 2). Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. [1]

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  8. Talk:Foot-candle - Wikipedia

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    1 candle-power to watts. 1 comment. 2 convert footcandles and lux to candelas. 5 comments. 3 calculating foot-candles with a camera. 2 comments. 4 Incorrect title? 1 ...

  9. Candela per square metre - Wikipedia

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    The candela per square metre (symbol: cd/m 2) is the unit of luminance in the International System of Units (SI). The unit is based on the candela, the SI unit of luminous intensity, and the square metre, the SI unit of area.