Michael, The color temperature of a light source can range from about 2000 degree K for average tungsten bulbs to over 6000 for outdoors. Most of our studio strobes are around 5500 when new so they match daylight type 'films' or settings. So what color temperature you decide can be totally your choice, as long as the light source is what is normally called "full spectrum". This means the light itself contains all the colors found in nature (the rainbow).
My experience with LED's is limited but I believe they typically are full spectrum except for the obvious red, green dedicated units. The problem with fluorescent is that they typically lacked the warmer colors--red, magenta and yellows. Back in film days you had to filter out some of the green and cyan's to balance the film the best you could. The bulbs that Dave Heine mentions have much of that deficiency resolved in the tube itself. I would suggest you consider the room's conditions. If the room has some daylight, consider the higher rated bulbs. If the room is typically lit via regular tungsten bulbs, there's nothing wrong with going with some 3K units. It seems as though Rod Stewart is using LED's on his layout--I wonder if he'd take your call! Bob Werre On 8/22/11 6:02 PM, Michael Eldridge wrote: > > Has anybody tried LED's for room lighting? Soon I'm going to order > some high brightness LED's (not the little guys we might use in > locomotive lighting). They are about $1 each. The vendors list the > light output in lumens and in millicandels. Anybody have any idea how > that would compare to a 4ft fluorescent? > > The vendor I'm looking at is superbrightleds.com. You can see the > confusing array of products at > http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/component-leds/filter/Color,Warm_White,3,2: > That's just the warm whites. > > Maybe one of you photographers could recommend a color: they list > 3000, 3100, 3300, 3500, 4000. > > . > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
