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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3275344" data-attributes="member: 109211">Interesting point Sanjay, but consider this.Imagine a bin which only transmits 80% of light and the missing 20% was lost from all colours equally. If you were to look through it I think you would say it was not bright and that the colours looked 'washed out'. But this is because of a lack of light, not too much of it.With bins that transmit 90% of light like most good quality modern bins there is still 10% of light lost and if this is lost from the red colour then you may think that the reds in a view (and other colours that contain red) look washed out, but again this is due to a lack of light (or a lack of brightness of red) not too much. So I think it true to say that in any bins that show any washed-out colours it is because the bins are not transmitting all of the light of that colour.I think that the closer bins get to transmitting an impossible 100% of light the more likely that all colours will be seen in their full glory and all this is thanks to more light.Lee</blockquote>