New LED light from Philips with impressive specs.

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L Prize LED bulb

"It gives off 940 lumens, consumes 9.7 watts, and has a color rendering index, which is a measure of light quality, of 93. It's also rated to last 30,000 hours, which would be 20 years if used four hours a day. The color temperature is 2700, similar to an incandescent bulb, and it's dimmable."

$50.
 
$50 is hard to swallow for a bulb (especially for multibulb fixtures). I'll be all over this if they get rebates or subsidies getting them down to $20.
 
I have a few of the first generation Natural light LED bulbs from Philips, use them in my apartment, they were not $50, quite a bit less, but still well above incandescent - they work great and the light quality is absolutely perfect. The pricing on these guys needs to come down a lot, but I'm pretty excited that the light quality is there, that is a huge step for me personally.
 
People seem to be missing the fact that these last 30,000 hours. Is $60 really that expensive? You're looking at roughly a cost of $6 a year if used for 8 hours a day. Marginally more expensive than the 3 or 4 incandescents your going to use on a yearly basis. Cheaper if used for 4 hours a day. Then take into account the reduced energy consumption on your electric bill.

And if you want something cheaper look at Earthled.com. $16 bucks for a 60 watt equiv.
 
The yellow bands make it look like it's using remote phosphor technology. Some of Mole Richardson's new LED lighting use it, and so does PRG. It's supposed to be very efficient, something like 10:1 with very high CRI (95+ ?) ratings for tungsten balanced phosphor.
 
Andrew McCarrick said:
People seem to be missing the fact that these last 30,000 hours. Is $60 really that expensive? You're looking at roughly a cost of $6 a year if used for 8 hours a day. Marginally more expensive than the 3 or 4 incandescents your going to use on a yearly basis. Cheaper if used for 4 hours a day. Then take into account the reduced energy consumption on your electric bill.

And if you want something cheaper look at Earthled.com. $16 bucks for a 60 watt equiv.
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I want to hear how much of that 30000 hour life is at a decent light output . These things will dim and change color over time...I bet you get much less than 30000 hours of life with useable output.
 
Al MacLeod said:
I want to hear how much of that 30000 hour life is at a decent light output . These things will dim and change color over time...I bet you get much less than 30000 hours of life with useable output.
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I guess I don't really care about that. As long as it permits me to see in what would otherwise be a dark room, I don't care how bright it is or what color it's emitting.
 
...And what use does the OP suggest they are for? To replace all of my household bulbs with these would cost me well over $1200.00. As for their use for filmmaking... Why? 2700K, at CRI of 93. So, what part of the spectrum is missing that I have to fix with filtration or in post? I have been trying to manhandle CFLs into a viable production tool and I have given up on them as I just don't care for the light they produce. I think this bulb would be the same.
 
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