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> You need a LOT of lightbulbs to make up the difference.

Indeed. You can measure ambient light with your phone: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vonglasow.michael.satsta...

Pointing my phone towards the sun gives upward of 4000 lux, whereas the two bulbs in my room barely add up to 1000 from 1m away.



Those apps aren't at all accurate: https://www.dialux.com/en-GB/news-detail/luxmeter-app-versus...

Value for sunlight should even be higher, the bulb is only a little too high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight


The outside at midday in summer on a sunny day is more like 120,000 Lux.


Yeah, point the phone camera to the sun will saturate the camera sensor and not lead to an accurate value for flux.




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