Different Lightings Make A Difference

I mentioned in my earlier post on the usage of proper lighting to identify the fine defects on the car's paintwork. Some paint defects like superficial swirl marks, buffer swirl and halogram ... etc requires very strong intensity lighting to see. If you cannot see the defects clearly, you cannot proceed with proper paint correction and preparation to achieve a concourse finishing.

This was the short simple lighting test that was conducted recently. I would call it the "MH vs Fluoro lightings test"... lolz. I retrofitted a lighting source with 1 x conventional fluorescent light tube and 2 x new LED light tube. The test subject was a black Lexus RX350 with superficial swirl marks and light buffer swirl. Both lighting were directed to the front right panel on the hood at different timings.

The retrofitted light box was placed at various distance from far to near and each time, i found it very hard to identify the fine defects on the car's paintwork, the car's paint work look perfect with no defects under these lightings.

Take a look at the test subject again with MH lighting, the light swirl marks and buffer swirl were revealed. The car was almost perfect under the fluorescent and LED lighting source, but that was not the actual condition of the car's paintwork. Lighting is a very important factor in proper car grooming/ detailing task. Hope you have enjoy the session here, thank you for viewing this test.