Your Experience with Fluorescent Lighting for a Studio

I have tried to read all I can from this forum and others about

Fluorescent lighting for a photo studio but I am hoping to get some

up-to-date, personal feedback about this topic.

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I have a studio with excellent built in Fluorescent lighting but of

course, the standard Fluorescent bulbs offer very poor quality

lighting for most purposes, often highlighting belemishes and making

skin look red, blocky and just plain unhealthy.

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I would like to know your experience and suggestions as to what type

of Fluorescent bulbs I should use. Tell me what bulbs you use and

what type of results can I expect. I have strobes and hot lights as

well but I would like to be able to utilize this extra light source.

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Fred Voetsch

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If you must use them... I would just filter my camera (or if digital, shoot raw) to match the

flourscent..then add filtration to either the strobes or hotlights to match them up too...

Mostly you just don't want competeing white balances...

 

You could probably find 5000k bulbs for the flourescents... which would help some...

There are some high end film and video fluorescent lighting systems costing up to $5000 , but you can get replacement tubes for them that will fit your existing fixtures , check out B&H for Kino Flo True Match lamps.

 

for instance these

 

Kino Flo True Match Safety Coated 75 Watt Fluorescent Lamp - 5500 Degree K - 4'

Mfr# 489K55S ? B&H# KI45500DLQ

Our Price: $ 21.50

5500 Degree K high 90 CRI bulbs are available even at Walmart; and Home Depot. There are many different brands now; once well over a decade ago there were only a few. Here I once they were only availble by direct sales contacts; about 14 years ago; at the B&H price mentioned above. the going rate is about 1/4 or 1/3 that today. Maybe I am missing something here; i have used these since about 1991.

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5500 Degree K high 90 CRI bulbs are available even at Walmart; and Home Depot. There are many different brands now; once well over a decade ago there were only a few. Here I once they were only availble by direct sales contacts; about 14 years ago; at the B&H price mentioned above. the going rate is about 1/4 or 1/3 that today. Maybe I am missing something here; i have used these since about 1991

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I found these locally yesterday and will try them out and post my results here. Thanks for all the feedback.

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Fred Voetsch

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http://www.AcclaimImages.com