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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 1730927, member: 25547&quot;]Ye olde &quot;soft white&quot; incandescent house bulb will work just fine as long as you can correct for color temperature.&nbsp; So can photofloods, which offer a bit cooler and more consistent light.&nbsp; In each case, though, you shouldn&#039;t use a more powerful bulb than the fixture is rated for, and you have to be careful about heat.&nbsp; Once I nearly dropped a lens after getting burned by a &quot;hot light.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Avoid inexpensive fluorescent or LED bulbs, compact or otherwise.&nbsp; Unlike an incandescent bulb or natural light, such bulbs have a &quot;spikey&quot; distribution of light frequencies leading to off colors.&nbsp; I use a set of &quot;full spectrum&quot; compact fluorescent lamps with a claimed CRI rating of 95 and color temperature of 5500K.&nbsp; A few LED bulbs now claim a CRI of 90, but I&#039;ve yet to try one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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