Matching Vidled to Tungsten

[Ted Spencer]

I received my Vidled yesterday (the 3200K version), and have been talking to Darius (who's been very helpful) about some issues I found regarding matching it with tungsten studio lights (like a Lowel Pro Light). I may be switching to the dayled version for this reason.

My question, for those who have the dayled version, is how successful have you been in using them as edge lights, back lights etc, on indoor tunsten studio-lit situations in terms of matching color temperature to tungsten? Obvoiusly you'd be CTO-ing them, but how much CTO do you use, and how close to matching a tungsten studio light can you get?

Thanks!

 

[Jeff Anderson]

I gel my daylight one to tungsten all the time and its spot on. I'll have to look but i want to say it was 1/3 CTO. Its whatever CTO takes 5600 to 3200 - the rosco site I believe covers this. The only issue I've had in a studio setting is that the vidled just gets trounced buy hotlights and you cant really tell its there. This is in an interview setting with lots of lights though. In a non studio setting (normal indoor lighting) it makes a fantastic key though to give some depth and is still dead on as far as CT goes assuming normal incandescent lighting is what you are shooting under.