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Old August 3rd, 2006, 06:50 PM   #1
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Incandescent bulb recomendation

Oh my gosh I could shoot myself in the foot. In fact I think I have. I saw a video of some lighting guy at some bug DV expo talking about bulbs. Or maybe it was web page, I'm just not sure.

I do remember he said Sylvania bulbs because they don't have a sharp red in them but I can't remember what they were called.

If you can help with a bulb choice please do. This is for indoor lighting in my grassroots worklight kit.

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Old August 4th, 2006, 08:21 PM   #2
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Well, this is pretty open-ended.

For incandescent lamps for studio lights, people I know usually buy what they can get. Ushio, GE, OSRAM/Sylvania? Whatever fits their lights & is available.

For home-brew fluorescent systems I've never heard a preference for Sylvania. But the presence or lack of a "sharp red" doesn't sound like fluorescent. Usually you'd look for a high CRI (color rendition index) rating, meaning that the bulb would be even across the color spectrum. If I remember, anything over about 81 is considered a high CRI.

If you are looking for fluorescent bulbs for home-brew systems, search the forum, there were a number of threads a while back.
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Old August 5th, 2006, 04:08 PM   #3
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i don't remember the exact names of each - in general look for FULL spectrum bulbs ... GE i think calls theirs line REVEAL ... westinghouse calls theirs ReaLite ..

also some refer to full spectrum as "Neodymium " light bulb/ fluorescent ( neodymium type bulbs claims more natural daylight then the reveal line )
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Old August 5th, 2006, 11:15 PM   #4
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Ah yes, thanks you guys. That 81 CRI rings a bell.
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