Television Lighting Claim (It's Bad For You)

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Originally Posted by austvarchive

Some forms of halogen lighting create high amounts of UV radiation - I know many studios at one point in the 90's which had much of their lighting without any form of uv protective glass over the front of the fittings, potentially if they are very intense and enough of them at close range for long enough would give you sunburn

This reminds me that some early studios experimented with mercury vapor lamps, which could produce excess UV.