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lighting Different lighting colours

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Absolution_Films

Hi Guys again,

If you have read my other thread i actually bought 2 lights and soft boxes, now I've decided to just get a cheaper light for a back light...

Both of my new lights are 85w and are obviously bright white/day light. I really want to just get a cheap light for a back light and wondered would florecsent light be ok with the 2 day/white lights? im guessing Halogen would be rubbish as it omits more of a yellow light....
 
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Absolution_Films said:
Both of my new lights are 85w and are obviously bright white/day light. I really want to just get a cheap light for a back light and wondered would florecsent light be ok with the 2 day/white lights? im guessing Halogen would be rubbish as it omits more of a yellow light....
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Make sure the fluo is marked 'daylight' or 'cool white' or '5600' or something - they are very close to daylight in color.

BUT - how are your two lamps daylight? Most traditional film lights are tungsten and warm (3200°K) by their nature. Are these fluorescent or LED maybe? Or are the bulbs colored blue?
 
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There will still be a green spike in the flouresent that will need to be either gelled out (cutting the amount of light) with a light magenta (minus green) gel, or you'll need to just accept the very slight yellowish cast that even balanced bulbs will provide.

I just got done with a shoot with kinos and I'm not a big fan of the quality of light they provide. They don't seem to render true daylight nor true tungsten even with "color balanced" bulbs.
 
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Hey Guys,

I have hopefully sorted the problem, well we will find out tomorrow....

These are the 2 lights i originally bought, i just wanted a cheap lighting kit to get started and heard lots of good reports about this company and these lights....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

I went to a light specialist today and he helped me to get the third light, i have no idea what it is but it omits white light and is very close to the two lights above, the bulb was £3! ($5) lol.

It should hopefully get me over tomorrow then i can invest in better kit afterwards.

Thanks for all your advice

p.s. NGOFORTH - as you can see in the link above the original lights i bought omit 5400k
 
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p.s. NGOFORTH - as you can see in the link above the original lights i bought omit 5400k
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I see. I've used lights like this, and they can work pretty well. These ARE fluorescents - the fairly new kind of high-speed, color-corrected fluos. The high-speed part means that you generally won't see flicker from them, as you can with standard fluorescents (and, for general use, they are easier on your eyes than 50/60Hz fluos).

So another fluorescent as a back light should be no problem at all.

And the difference between 5400 and 5600°K is minimal. The Kelvin chart is not a linear thing, and it ends up that the difference between 3200°K and 3400K is much greater than 5400 and 5600. Don't work about correction at that difference - our Red, for instance, wants to see 5000°K, but showing them standard daylight does not seem to matter. I guess an anal-rentive DP (and I've worked with them) would want to put a very light gel on the light, but it's really not necessary.
 
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Just never seen a fluorescent that didn't look icky. Cheap ones, expensive ones, all temp ranges, they just look cold and yucky or green and even yuckier. Never worked with a real Kino (brand). I assume they look better.
 
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