Can't find LED with a color temp you like?
Filter it.. Lee filters has a set of lighting gels (lighting gels are used in studio, stage and photography to "color" the lights) that is now color corrected for LED light sources. I have been ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:Oldme wrote:
Mexicowanderer I found this on a lighting site.
Hope it Helps.
From http://www.fullspectrumsolutions.com/natural_lighting.htm
"Sunlight in its pure form has a kelvin temperature of around 5,000 degrees kelvin and a color rendering index of 100. As sunlight comes into contact with the earth's atmosphere and is reflected and refracted by water and dust particles the color temperature actually changes throughout the day ranging anywhere from 5,000 to 6,000 kelvin depending on the time of day and the amount of clouds in the sky. Artificial lighting sources within this range can appropriately be considered a natural lighting lamp as long as the color rendering index is above 90."
The problem is most artificial lighting has horribly terrible color rendering.. Often 80 or less..
You can find now days CFLs designed for studio and photography which often achieve 90 or better but they will also be 5000K-5500K..
LEDs, not so much as of yet for color rendering, hence LED specific filters..
I'm in the lighting fixture design and manufacturing business for high end applications in museums. About 75% of our business is now LED with 97 CRI without any filters or gels. The LED technology is getting better every day with some really great products coming on the market.
