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High Intensity Light Question

Hi Radsafers,

About 5 years ago I had to figure out how to convert candela/cm^2 to
footcandles.  I lost my reference data but seem to remember that 
one candela/cm^2 approximated 500 footcandles.  

Does anyone have the formula for this conversion?


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