best LED lights (in terms of high CRI) to use with Sony A7s

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Nicholas Natteau

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I've long been using bicolor Litepanels 1x1 and bicolor Ikan 576 LED lights. These are great lights and I got great results using them with the Canon C300 and 1DC. But I've had a lot more trouble getting natural looking skin tones when I combined these same LED lights with the Sony A7s.

In terms of CRI, what would be the best LED lights to use with the A7s?

What about Cineo Lighting Tru Color LS lights? Has anyone used these with the A7s?
 
The A7s is very specific with lights as you've found out. Most LEDs are just awful.

The Remote Phosphor style lights are much better than the normal panels, i have an Area 48 and it works great with that. Also the Aladdin LED lights are surprisingly good.

cheers
Paul
 
Thank you very much Paul and Luis for your feedback. I mentioned Cineo after reading Philip Bloom's article on his blog about making a film on his father. Bloom happened to mention these Cineo claiming it had the highest CRI rating for accurate color. So that got me curious about whether I might get better skin tone rendition right out of the gate with the A7s, if I used lights with a higher CRI rating than the ones I currently own. But I'll definitely check out the Area 48 and YN600, thanks again for your help.

I discovered that I get great natural skin tones out of my A7s in S-Log2 when I'm just shooting with natural daylight. It's when I use LEDs that the skin tones on my A7s look unnatural. They exhibit a sickly yellowish jaundiced color, even though I took care to properly color balance. I do get better skin tones when shooting in PP4 mode on the A7s. So far shooting in PP7 / S-Log 2 using LEDs remains a daunting challenge in terms of achieving pleasing natural looking skin tones.
 
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