Foot-candles relates to luminous intensity, illuminance, or optical flux. Use them to describe brightness, how much light reaches a surface, or the output of a lamp.
Foot-candles to Lux
Gallery staff want to match 150 foot-candles; what does that translate to in lux?
Quick conversion chart
Foot-candles to Lux conversions for reference values.
Converting 0.1 Foot-candles into Lux equals 1.07639 Lux.
Converting 0.5 Foot-candles into Lux equals 5.38195 Lux.
Converting 1 Foot-candles into Lux equals 10.7639 Lux.
Converting 2 Foot-candles into Lux equals 21.5278 Lux.
Converting 5 Foot-candles into Lux equals 53.8195 Lux.
Converting 10 Foot-candles into Lux equals 107.639 Lux.
Converting 20 Foot-candles into Lux equals 215.278 Lux.
Converting 50 Foot-candles into Lux equals 538.195 Lux.
Converting 100 Foot-candles into Lux equals 1076.39 Lux.
How to convert Foot-candles to Lux
1 Foot-candles = 10.7639 Lux
1 Lux = 0.092903 Foot-candles
Example: convert 15 Foot-candles to Lux
15 × 10.7639 = 161.4585 Lux
Unit definitions
Lux relates to luminous intensity, illuminance, or optical flux. Use them to describe brightness, how much light reaches a surface, or the output of a lamp.
How to convert Foot-candles to Lux
The conversion between foot-candles and lux uses a fixed multiplication factor. One foot-candle equals 10.7639 lux.
To convert, multiply the value in foot-candles by 10.7639. To convert in the opposite direction, divide by 10.7639.