one of the members here (csshih) has a business that specializes in high end LED flashlights. ping him. i'm sure he can connect you to the right source/information on LEDs with excellent color temperatures and anything else you might need to know.
Originally Posted by
The_Doctor
Ok.
And at the risk of looking like I'm on the wrong forum entirely I have a question, preceded by the reason for it...
I set up solar power, purely because I always wanted to explore it and the efficiency that is needed for it to be cost effective. I got a powerful 50W LED floodlight and fit a dimmer of my own design, etc etc etc.. And because it's my main room light the colour really matters to me. And it's lousy, like a sickly early 70's fluorescent lamp at best. The seller was great, even made up a special hybrid phosphor mix for me, based on the two standards, 'warm white' and 'cool white'. The result is at least familiar to people used to older lighting, but it's still not good for colour rendering, and has a nasty pinkish purple aspect that no variety of sun-like stage gel filtering seems to fix. The array area is 7/8'' by 7/8'' and any replacement needs to match if I am to use the same reflector, but the mounting plate details can vary as there's no difficulty drilling and tapping the lamp's heatsink. As a guide to colour (I have no spectrograph, and vague subjective descriptions won't help) the best I can do is say that Fenix's old P3D 'premium' light with the Luxeon 'Rebel' RB100 LED is the best I have ever seen, and pretty much ideal for still photography where exposure time can make up for the limited light output, with the Fenix PD32 'Ultimate Edition' Cree XM-L (T6) neutral white at its brightest being an extremely close (but a tad bit greenish) second, beside either of which that floodlight is an unsettling ill pink. If I can get the right (halogen-like) colour at 50W, or even 100W, I want to do it.
Having set it up that much, the question is easy: Where can I be sure of getting one?
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.