Axalta has launched its new wireless daylight lamp in a bid to speed up accurate colour matching.
The Axalta Colour Inspector simulates a range of light conditions and intensities, making metamerism* visible and enhancing colour accuracy.
Design features include energy-saving LEDs, powerful batteries and ergonomic handling.
Axalta product and colour manager John Nettleton explains the process behind developing the lamp.
"Sometimes two colours can look identical in normal workshop light, but they can differ from each other quite considerably in midday or in early evening light.
"This effect is called metamerism and is not often visible until the finished car is driven away from the workshop.
"With the Axalta Colour Inspector, we can avoid this happening before the job is even started."
The lamp can be adjusted to three levels of light settings dependent on colour tone and lightness to darkness.
*In colorimetry, metamerism is a perceived matching of the colors that, based on differences in spectral power distribution, do not actually match. Colors that match this way are called metamers. Source Wikepedia. Editor's note - I learnt a new word today.