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Originally Posted by Xenophon
There are plenty of CFLs that can be used with dimmers, but they are quite a bit more expensive than the NO-dimmer-usage variety.
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Like I said, I haven't seen them, but I haven't looked as I've no use for them at the moment.
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As for "the color of fluoro lights" -- are you aware that you can buy fluorescent bulbs in a wide range of color temperatures? They range from 2700K (which matches the yellow-ness of incandescent) through 6500K (which matches the dominant colors in sunlight) and also "full spectrum" (which match the four or five dominant colors in sunlight, in about the correct proportions).
My wife and I are rather partial to the 4300K bulbs known as "cool white" in the US market. This represents a compromise between "not-too-far-from-incandescent" on the one hand, and "helps with her SAD" on the other.
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Yes, I'm aware of the colour temperature options. I wouldn't say all the ones that I've tried "match" incandescents though. I personally find (and, I don't know, but this may be a product of some colour-blindness), that their colour has a mild greenish tinge at times, and is not the same to me. In a different form, the standard "white" fluoro globes are too stark for my eyes. The "cool" are worse...clinical. Incandescent and halogen are my preference for room light, though note that most every lamp in our place (and we're big lamp-users) is a fluoro (I don't want folks to think that I am so averse to them that I don't use them).
This isn't to dismiss what you say, Xenophon, at all. I'll be a bit more "scientific" in my selections, and, in particular, try out in my bedside lamp all the varieties I can find. It annoys me that I am sensitive to their "colour", while being partially colour-blind. One would hope it would go some way to being a spectrum-leveller for bulbs (yeah, I know, it doesn't work that way
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In the US, I buy from 1000bulbs.com (which won't help Marc, but may be of use to the US readership). Really, there are tons of options if you look around a bit.
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...but I thank you anyway, because you encourage me to test some more. If it's the way things are going, I'll need to find lighting solutions that are satisfying to me.
Cheers,
Marc