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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2619131, member: 19463&quot;]That one is CFL.&nbsp; I have no preference between CFL and LED as long as you have one of the daylight balance types with a high CRI.&nbsp; Color Rendering Index, or CRI, is a measure of how well the bulb mimics a continuous spectrum of colors.&nbsp; It is harder to reproduce colors properly if you have gaps in the spectrum.&nbsp; Some lights are high (95 or so) and others (sodium vapor in parking lots, for example) have pretty much one color so you can not color correct.&nbsp; High CFI bulbs usually say so on the package and cost more.&nbsp; Worth it?&nbsp; That depends on the colors you are trying to reproduce.&nbsp; Sometimes we just drop back and punt (aka postprocess) as best we can.&nbsp; Light purists will be aghast at that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Daylight balance is nice but bulb makers apply the term to a rather wide range of color temperatures (5000 to 6500 or so) but it makes little difference if you are using manual white balance to set up your camera.&nbsp; My LED ringlight is a little colder than my other bulbs so I suffer sometimes.&nbsp; You can buy correction filters to place over lights but I am not that into it and make do as it is.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is better if all lights used in one shot are the same but I have so many bulbs kicking around now that is not always the case. </p><p><br /></p><p>I won&#039;t be buying any more CFL bulbs as long as I can get good LED&#039;s but I&#039;m not throwing out the ones I have and they probably have a longer life expectancy than I do.&nbsp; I do not recommend buying large quantities of light bulbs in advance.&nbsp; The first CFL&#039;s and first LED&#039;s were not nearly as good as the current crop.&nbsp; I suspect next year&#039;s group will be better as well.&nbsp; Don&#039;t buy those 2700 degrees Kelvin orange bulbs made for people who liked the warmth of the old incandescent bulbs in their lamps.&nbsp; Stick to daylight for photos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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