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Thank you,
With my increasing Glaucoma I need all the light inside my house as possible. I use drops twice a day and see the eye doc every 4 months.
I carry a LED flashlight as the crappy lighting in stores, and any other indoor arena is really bad light. Fluorescent tubes are terrible.
Sunshine is good!
None of these kinds of lights are going to deliver rated color temp at the high daylight end because they fail to factor the warming effect of plastic diffusers. Nor are panels likely to match. So a color temp meter is essential to evaluate what is really happening. I just installed a pair of Savage rim LED lights on my copy station. Quite a luxury compared to my old hot lights, which not only heated up the room, but are way too bright for my own eye safety at this age. I have them both balanced to actual 4500K at equal actual output, which also differs a bit between lamps. Nice even diffusion which doesn't even need cross-polarization with most shiny prints, but does need a slight tweak from a Singh-Ray KN filter for ideal color reproduction (basically, a very high quality skylight filter, but a bit more salmon than magenta in color).
Well, these get over 5K, which is good enough for me.
Yeah, once you're close they can be tweaked by basic light-balancing filters on the camera, gels on the lights, or often via an internal setting with pro digital cameras. No big deal. But I believe in honesty in labeling too.