I'm in the market for some portable LED panels I can take in to relatively small spaces for filming some interviews. Think very small cafe or really small office.
I've been looking at some that offer the ability to change the colour temperature, typically 3200 - 5500(ish).
Now, I'm not expecting them to be dead nuts on, but let's say you walk in to an environment that is maybe 4500K...
If you take a single colour LED source you can gel it (assuming you packed your gels) to get approx 4500K just like we've done with tungsten over the years.
If you take the bi-colour LED panels that are made up of half 3200K and half 5500K it appears that they simply mix the two to give you an average 'look', but that doesn't seem to me to the be same thing. Am I wrong to think that now you have the worst of all worlds (as well as less potential light than all single colour that you gel)?
You've effectively in a mixed lighting situation where you have some 5500K, some 4500k and some 3200K and now instead of having a matched lighting rig, 'nothing' will be right regardless of what you do with white balance.
Am I missing something here?
I've been looking at some that offer the ability to change the colour temperature, typically 3200 - 5500(ish).
Now, I'm not expecting them to be dead nuts on, but let's say you walk in to an environment that is maybe 4500K...
If you take a single colour LED source you can gel it (assuming you packed your gels) to get approx 4500K just like we've done with tungsten over the years.
If you take the bi-colour LED panels that are made up of half 3200K and half 5500K it appears that they simply mix the two to give you an average 'look', but that doesn't seem to me to the be same thing. Am I wrong to think that now you have the worst of all worlds (as well as less potential light than all single colour that you gel)?
You've effectively in a mixed lighting situation where you have some 5500K, some 4500k and some 3200K and now instead of having a matched lighting rig, 'nothing' will be right regardless of what you do with white balance.
Am I missing something here?
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