LED floodlights

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Anybody have any experience with the LED Floodlights from Enlux Lighting? They have 3 temps of white lights (neutral, warm, cool) that appear to just screw into regular bulb sockets (they have colored lights, too). 50,000 hours, 22W max, 300 lumens, 3300k for the neutral. Would these be a great fit for the low-budget DVX shooter?
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[quote author=jaw link=board=lighting;num=1104982220;start=0#0 date=01/05/05 at 19:30:20]Anybody have any experience with the LED Floodlights from Enlux Lighting? They have 3 temps of white lights (neutral, warm, cool) that appear to just screw into regular bulb sockets (they have colored lights, too). 50,000 hours, 22W max, 300 lumens, 3300k for the neutral. Would these be a great fit for the low-budget DVX shooter?
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At $80 per lamp they would bust your budget. secondly they suck. WIth the inverse square law of light fall off, your $80 would be good for two feet. Don't waste your money. For the money yo can buy a professional Lowel light and really have a pro fixture.
 
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Thanks, Walter. You are probably right. I am a bit surprised at your response, though, as I've read your site many a time and have my own modified set of "Grafflights." I agree that the price is a bit steep but the low-power/no-heat issues would mitigate that a bit, no? Especially for "grafflight" type situations?
RE: my modified "Grafflights": I replaced the stock fluor. bulbs with daylight temp bulbs and then carefully cut some thick highly reflective silver mylar material and inserted it behind the bulbs in a curved position for reflectors and the light produced is quite a bit brighter. I couldn't tell you how much, but it is noticable and I seem to have reduced the slight "green" cast to a negligible amount (ie: almost completely gone). The bulbs cost me a few bucks more and the silver material was free.
 
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Homemade flouros are ten times more efficient than LEDs which really don't make that good a spectrum of light in the first place and are extremely expensive lumen for lumen. I'm all for making your own lights but I am about efficiency for the price. Who says fluorescents don't burn cool too? just as cool as an LED (at least both can be touched with bare hands). So if it came to me using a inexpensive light, I'd make a $15 grafflight and have all the lumens I need. WIth an LED I'd have something that looked cool but was no more efficient than a flashlight.

As for green tinge, simple. First understand that every flouro lamp made has what is called a Color Rendering index (CRI). You can usually find it somewhere on the box of the fixture you buy or the lamp box. It is a term that tells you how well the lamp produces a full spectrum of light. Anything below 85 for video is unacceptable. At CRI 85 there is often a slight green tinge. Above 85 up to 95+ the light is much better in quality and no tinge is seen. If you buy a fixture with a slight tinge and can't find a lamp that is better than 85CRI, simply purchase a sheet of 1/8 minus green. it looks like a very light pink gel. Wrap and cut a sleeve around your tube and you have a well balanced light. And you can go online and purchase what are called triphospher tubes. They are very high CRI lamps that eliminate any problem. Or just do a search under "Fluorescent CRI" and see what sites sell tubes with 90+ CRI.
 
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