IKEA LED Bulbs: Good Enough for Video Lighting?
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2018
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If you’re shooting video on a really tight budget and you cannot afford an expensive, pro-grade lighting instrument, can you get away with using consumer grade LED bulbs from IKEA? Let’s take a look and see whether these bulbs can produce decent quality light for your video projects and consider the “down-sides.”
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Links to gear discussed and used to record this session:
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IKEA RYET LED Bulbs (not recommended for video use)
IKEA: www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?que...
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IKEA LEDARE LED Bulbs (usable for tiny budget, non-color critical video lighting)
IKEA: www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?que...
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Shop/Clamp Lamp - the aluminum lamp you’ll want to concentrate the light and mount it on a light stand
Amazon: geni.us/5aD4qrj
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5 in 1 Reflector (I use the middle section to soften the light - it is a scrim/silk)
Amazon: geni.us/aXGA
B&H: bhpho.to/2HKeIpk
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Sekonic C-700-U Spectrometer (for measuring CRI, color casts, spectral light output, etc.)
Amazon: geni.us/bB5B
B&H: bhpho.to/2ie5PJd
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Sennheiser MKH 8050 Super-cardioid Boom Microphone
Amazon: geni.us/BUjBAdM
B&H: bhpho.to/2zozur3
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Panasonic GH5S (My current favorite small camera)
Amazon: geni.us/8r1G
B&H: bhpho.to/2Cbt6mY
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Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens - incredibly versatile lens that is on the GH5S most of the time
Amazon: geni.us/hNzCP
B&H: bhpho.to/2i6s2gv
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Copyright 2018 by Curtis Judd
Ethics statement: Some of the links above are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, or other affiliate links.
Thanks to +SatanicJamnic for the question: Can you use IKEA LED bulbs for video lighting?
Curtis Judd OMG. You did this. Legendary. You are awesome.
This one's for you pal! 👍
That's a great username. Thanks for the video Curtis :)
Awesome to hear that your iconic opening music is back! Great review, as always, Curtis!
Thanks Isaiah!
Curtis, always appreciate your honesty in your reviews combined with real world examples for and against the explained reasoning behind your summaries .
You are very deserving of the level you have achieved with your channel.
Very best to you and take care, Pete
Thanks Pete!
Thank you for talking about the colors as well, you made me understand the relationship between light and the filling of each color on the tester. Thanks again !
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TYVM. The details and data you cover in your tests are key to what you called this video. So thank you!
You’re welcome!
Curtis, I just love your videos! Always so mild mannered, professional, and objective. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks Lance, I appreciate that!
And again some awesome information shared by Curtis! Thank you very much!
Thanks TJ!
Great review video Curtis. I have always enjoyed your reviews. I used those cheaper $1 bulbs on a short film once and it turned out great. We were shooting at bar that had some incandescent lights in the back ground along with lots of multi colored neon lights. I took four of the $1 bulbs put them in a soft box to give more light output and it blended perfectly. They work great when CRI quality isn't a big concern.
Thanks Paul, good point: When going for a stylized scene, these can work. Thanks!
Thanks for doing the color rendition tests and mentioned the reds too. That was helpful. I always forget (or overlook) the fact that you "could" use clamp lights with led bulbs for a cheap alternative, but as you said all that goes out the window on a professional shoot or something that NEEDS to be color critical. I've actually never been to Ikea but I've heard some good things, so I'm glad you tested these. Thanks again!
Thanks Dave! I was hearkening back to the days where all I had were clamp lights. That wasn't all that long ago. Take care!
Very useful review, thanks Curtis!
Thanks agentgarnet!
This was extremely helpful, I hope you can do more of this testing on different IKEA Led Bulbs or other commercial LED companies.
Thanks Abdo.
I’ve been using 6 of the Ledare 11-watt 5000K bulbs in an Impact fixture that takes six bulbs. Picked up the fixture and softbox second hand really cheap on B&H, and now have a decent super low-budget key to use. 5000k is only about a 1/8 CTB away from the more standard 5600k daylight value. Appreciate the video to back up what I was seeing with my eyes: decent but not perfect color rendering. But still considerably better than most other common consumer LEDs. Thanks as always.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I' heard from a friend after I posted this that the daylight bulbs actually register a higher CRI score than the 2700K bulbs I showed here.
That was very helpful and informative... thank you very much for the content 👍👍👍
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Great video! Thank you for the tips!
Thanks Galileo.
Thanks for another great content!
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Great low cost solution. Thanks for sharing this.
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback!
informative and useful video, thank you
Thanks David.
Thank you for the effort !
You're welcome!
Great info. It is very much appreciated how you give context to the question. So often these types of subjects need someone with knowledge, experience, expertise, and common sense, and you seem to have all those in spades!!! If someone is starting out, they can get away with passion projects and bare bones. As you mention, once you start getting paid for the end result, or get into specialized gear, it's time to do some investment. Thanks for the informative video. Also, makes me laugh with the (current) 1 thumbs down on this video. For the life of me, what would someone be unhappy about when it comes to this informed, well made, thoughtful video?! Guess you can't please everybody!
Thanks Ryan, very much appreciate your feedback!
That so helpful thank you 🌸
You are welcome!
I am using this light bulbs. Great CRI and power for the money. They are also dimmable. Great lights for practical lighting.
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Great video!
Thanks!
Great video! Do you have an adapter or clamp to actually hold the shop light to the light stand? The clamps on the clamp light I have just isn’t very clampy lol.
Hi Jay, no, but I have found they work a lot better on century stands with their larger lugs. I generally place the clamp vertically over the stud and lower the light until the top of the stud is up against the back of the clamp (hard to describe in words, hopefully that makes some sense.)
If a clamp light clamp wants to slide, you can use a clamp beneath it to stop it.
Good idea, thanks for that!
Thank you for doing this, really. Every time I see a Ledare I always wonder if they can be used, and I must say your lighting here looks nice! Just a bit moodier than your usual.
Moody! Good way to put it! Thanks Raya!
Curtis Judd now I'm curious in how it compares to the 135W photography CFL lights that usually used for budget solution. I still use them in softboxes for some scenarios.
The LEDs tend to have a much smoother spectral response compared to fluorescent. I generally find that fl bulbs accentuate green and yellow while LEDs accentuate blue.
Thanks for sharing. Is it a good idea to mix a professional video light and a consumer led light in the same scene? I have a aputure tri8 which I planned on using it as the key light. I also need some extra light sources to light up the background and to create a edge light of the subject.
Hi Alex, it depends. This is often done in films when the consumer bulb is a practical light. Also depends on what you’re illuminating with each light. In the talking head shots here, the blue was from a “pro” light. If you’re trying to use one to fill the other, then things can get dodgy.
Fantastic review! Would you mind reviewing Soraa LED bulbs? They use Gallium and therefore claim to have the best color rendering. These bulbs are used at Louvre and Buckingham palace.
Thanks! I hadn't heard of them, I'll see if I can get my hands on some.
I've been on the lookout for inexpensive LED bulbs to use for video/photography. I have found dimmable LED bulbs tend to have flicker. Non dimmable ones have steady light unless they are the very cheap. I'd lean towards 5000K types because it is closer to the sensor's natural color balance. Warm white (2700 - 3500K) mean the camera has to boost the blue channel significantly which could lead to more noise.
Thanks John. Interesting re: daylight being better for camera sensors. I hadn't heard that before.
Thanks for the video with very hands-on advice. I see this question appear below, but no answer. So watt :-) would be an affordable e27 light? I use fluorescent lights right now but they are very troublesome. It's everytime moving a box full of fragil glass.
I assume that these IKEA bulbs are e27 base in Europe.
This is so cool, especially the way you clamp the scrim on the light stand at 1:28. Can you share how you were able to tilt the scrim? I watched the other video of yours, and it inspired to go with this simple diffuser solution. Now I need your help to complete this inspiration :-)
I just used spring clamps on a c-stand. So that sort of blows the "how can I do this really cheaply". 🤨
@@curtisjudd Yeah, I sensed this intent :-). But amazingly you could even tilt the scrim with this solution.
Thank for the video Curtis. I have bought both before finding your video. and I quickly tested the cheaper Ryet with a 4 in one adaptor, so 4 bulbs, and you are correct, the red tinge is quite noticeable. I will also check the other more expensive bulb in the same 4 bulbs arrangement. As for the former, if its for only top down videos, I mainly do tech videos, and at the moment nothing is a paid content, but occasionally I get some products for review, as long as I stick to down down filming with thees bulbs, would you consider the Ryet bulbs okay? BTW I will still do a comparison video and I will defo send people to this video, you da man...!
Hi and thanks! If you mean for product shots for a review, you can use the cheaper bulbs, of course, but colors may be quite off from reality. If that's ok, then go for it!
@@curtisjudd Thank you for replying so quickly, I remember you are very good at this and I should take a page from your book. I would love some day to do a collab with yourself so if ever there is a chance for that let me know. Even if not, when I do this Ikea Hack video I will send you the link and I may use some of your footage in the video under fair use and give you full credit, I hope you are okay with this...
@@HealMyTech1 Ok, best wishes!
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Justin - Thanks as always for your reviews. Pity that the LEDARE bulb struggles with R9 (red rendering), which is probably the most crucial spectrum for skin tones. It would be an otherwise fantastic low cost solution for key lights on a budget. The flicker issue is also a drawback.
Is the LEDARE dimmable (probably not) and if so, does the color quality shift? I need to pick up some color accurate, dimmable bulbs to replace practicals (desk lamps, wall scones, etc.) where the R9 spectrum isn't quite so critical.
Hi Dave, there is a symbol on the Ledare box which seems to indicate it is dimmable. I’ll need to test how that affects color quality. Thanks for the question!
@@curtisjudd You can always go for TRADFRI (trådfri, litteral translation from "wireless"). Look at 604.084.83 for a 1000lm software controllable lightbulb.
Thanks for the review. Any chance to test out those small LED lights? Litra Torch seems to market it as a handy light for videographers.
Hi Dynamic Angles Photo and Video. I'm a little hesitant to buy anything like that. With the other light cubes I tested, the color quality was quite awful and the color temp was nearly 10,000K which is very difficult to work with if you have to mix it with any other light. Can be fine as a practical or if you want a sort of extreme artistic look.
Thanks Curtis!
Great video, but I don't understand, does that 1800 light shine on you through that large diffuser? Or is it reflecting on you, how far it is? Doesn't look very bright
Yes, it is shooting through the diffuser which is approximately 1 meter from me. It isn't very bright. These are consumer grade bulbs.
Thanks for your video - you helped me choosing my mic before, with another video.
Any suggestions on a bulb with about 600W equivalent power output and good color rendering?
Thanks! I haven't seen any consumer LED bulbs with that much output power, unfortunately. But you could gang several of these together behind a scrim to get a similar effect. Good luck!
Curtis Judd thanks for your quick reply. I’m not looking for a consumer solution :)
I have already a bulb with about 250w from a strobe manufacturer - just need more power.
Again, great videos!
I'd look at the Aputure COB120d: ua-cam.com/video/oYSaQbrIfts/v-deo.html
Curtis Judd thanks!
Good stuff Curtis, love the budget review - I've furnished my whole house with IKEA LOL.
👍 I’ve just added 2 IKEA bulbs to the practical lighting in my house. 😉
Does a diffusion panel adjust the CRI readings? Such as if your diffusion panel has more red - will it even the light out? Nobody seems to blog about that fact.
Great question! It would be very costly to design a diffusion panel to optimize the spectral output of a light source because lower quality light sources tend to have deficiencies in several spectral ranges. Also, using a scrim or any other filter material is problematic from the standpoint that filters remove things, they do not add things. So if there is not enough output of a particular spectral range (e.g., red), you cannot add more red with a filter. I hope that makes sense and thanks again for the good question!
As I understood from your video there ARE also daylight-balanced IKEA bulbs? I would prefer those. Is the color output of those expected to be better or worse than the ones you tested?
Yes, one of my friends measures the daylight version of LEDARE and saw a CRI of 94. I didn’t see the readings on the secondary color patches, but 94 is a good start!
Do you also have a recommendation for alterntaive clamp lights? They are not available in every country (as here in germany).
I'd have a look at a local hardware store.
Thanks for the video Curtis Judd. Only one think, your jacket reflects green a lot, next time try to wear a black shirt. All members of cinematography team use black clothes to avoid reflections. And believe me, color reflections contaminate your measurements very easy. I know what I am talking about, I work in mobile camera manufacturing industry and use accurate measurements all the time.
Thanks Angel.
Your charts shows some high CRI incandescent bulbs. Are those a better option? That 100W Sylvania seemed like it had good values.
Hard to find these days and they use a lot more power, but good color quality.
Thanks. May sound dumb, but with modern digital cameras having ability to easily do custom white balance, why should I be concerned about color accuracy of these lights, or any for that matter? Thanks and thumbs up.
Hi Pete, color accuracy is still critical because you cannot just custom white balance to fix color spectrum deficiencies. White balance, even custom white balance, is just an averaging of the overall spectral output. It does not account directly for individual color inconsistencies (e.g., blue spectral spikes in most LEDs, yellow and green spikes which differ from fluorescent tube to fl tube).
Cameras are tuned to expect a generally smooth transition between different colors on the spectrum, even for different white balance settings or presets. For example, while the tungsten white balance setting accounts for the spectral skew toward the reds and oranges, it assumes that the transition to the cooler blues and violets is smooth and relatively linear (like it is with true tungsten lighting). The problem with LEDs and Fluorescent and even HMI lighting is that the spectral transitions are not at all smooth and linear. Though with LEDs, they are generally getting better when it comes to professional grade LED lights.
In short, custom white balancing alone will not address spectral inconsistencies and extreme transitions. Thus color accuracy - defined as a high color rendering index which also generally translates to relatively smooth, generally linear transitions between colors - is still very important if you want control over how your final footage looks.
I hope this makes some sense.
Where u bought stand for bulb e27? Im looking for
It is just a standard light stand like this: bhpho.to/2oz2BXI The shop light has a spring clamp that I attached to the stand.
Curtis, would you be mad at me if I told you your lighting was visually more pleasing in this video than your others? The warmth of the light contrasting with the blue made a very great image. Ikea wins for UA-cam eh!
Not mad at all, thanks!
1000 dollar question, how do you balance the WB in your camera to match the LED light?
I use a gray card and the custom white balance feature on the camera like this: ua-cam.com/video/zya_8TBvctY/v-deo.html
please send me the link of consumer incandescent 100w sylvania cri measurement video ,thanks a lot
I did not make a separate video of that.
Have you tried the Smith Victor bulbs? A bit more than the LEDARE but clearly not targeted for professional. 2020, it is running for about 40usd. Not sure if there is a gain in the actual performance.
Hi, no, haven't heard of them. I'll need to look them up. Thanks!
Ah. Was wondering about those a while back.
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Strange cast on the speaker on reference monitor beside you. Is it actually white? Is there good LEDs in high wattage bulb type lights, available somewhere?
That's a mix of the 2700K LEDARE bulb and the daylight colored bulb on the wall. Ideally, one would use a honeycomb grid on the key light to keep it from spilling back there like that.
Oh, no, that speaker cone is pure yellow in real-life if that's what you meant?
Yep. Those funky KRK speakers! Think they all have those bright yellow cones!
What do you thing about IKEA Tradfri for video shooting?
Good question, I'm not sure, haven't tried them.
@@curtisjudd We're using Tradfri transformer with some custom LED strips and Tradfri bulbs as practicals. No issues with bulbs but there is an issue with Tradfri transformer - on some brightness levels video starts flickering. I guess the problem is in ESP8266 controller that can only handle 1 kHz PWM.
It's hard to give pronounciations like this, but...
Ledare = Led-are-eh
Ryet = Ryu-et
Swedish "y" sounds aren't really in English, at least not that I know of.
Ledare means leader, both as in someone who leads and as in electronics. Ryet is a place.
Thanks!
Thanks for the video! I am keen to get the shop/clamp lamp that you recommend but the link above is broken, can you update for me please? Thanks!
Hi Lexi, it looks like it works ok in the US. If you're searching from outside the US at Amazon, a search for "clamp lamp" should get you some options. Best wishes!
@@curtisjudd Ah I see. It seems that in Australia we don't to clamp lights like the basic hardware store variety I grew up with in the US. I'm looking at this Ikea clamp light instead. Do you have any experience with it? www.ikea.com/au/en/p/ranarp-wall-clamp-spotlight-off-white-90231322/
Hi again, I don’t have first-hand experience with the IKEA fixture, but it looks promising. It might be a bit more of a spotlight relative to the clamp lights I used, but if you bounce it off of a reflector or through a scrim, it should work nicely.
@@curtisjudd Thanks so much for your advice and speedy reply! I think I'll invest in a scrim and a tripod as well. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing this. I used 13 watt warm white LEDs on a stills shooting recently and the results were pretty good. I had two Westcott TD-5s (one with 5 bulbs and the other with 3 bulbs), a softbox and strip bank. I used a color chart and shot in RAW and was able to achieve good output shooting between ISO-400 and 800.
Thanks Jesse, good to hear your experience. Did you use the color chart in post for correction or just to assess the color quality?
I used the chart in post to give me a neutral white balance. I created a preset in the GH4, but still, shoot with the color chart when using those LED bulbs.
Weird. In Europe (Russia in particular) all IKEA bulbs are CRI >90 and completely flicker-free at shutter speeds up to 1/1000 or so (and, of course, they are E27, not E26). The color temperature issue stays though: you have a choice of either 2700K or 4100K, so using IKEA bulbs in a room that has no other light sources like displays, windows, screens or other lights is fine, but otherwise get ready for undesirable effects we here call, literally “porridge in [white] balance”. Anyway I prefer something that is ≈5500K or 3200-3400K.
At that, while all lights at home that I have are IKEA LEDs, for go-around work (when I need to green screen on the go) my choice are Chinese Falcon Eyes minilight 45 LED: E27, 6000 Lm, wireless output control (4 groups, radio remote and CTO cap come with each light), CRI >95, 5500K, ≈120° angle. They ARE small compared to proper panels (a bit bigger than that 1800 Lm LEDARE light shown in the video) but they heat up noticeably (and have fans because of that, but those fans are so quiet that no microphone I use hears them from further than 15 cm, or ½ ft), and they can be fitted into a household light fixture that offers decent space for a bulb that size. They can't be battery-powered but, well, $50 or even less for such a light is very inexpensive anyway. Four of those are good enough for a 5 m² (≈55 sq. ft.) space at 1/25 and f/3.4 for Sony EX1R at 0dB.
Thanks for the details Ignat!
Hi Curtis, I like the idea of keeping costs down and as you say, would it matter so much for us limited early pixies.. but talking about flicker,, what if a two bulb cheap double were to be used with smaller reflectors but more than one ! surely that would eliminate the flicker , make two into one , be useful for small shots.. add two angles of light !! lots of plus with minimal cost .. portrait up and down light !! at a bargain .. even small 4 point lights for a full portrait glow surely the incandescence of each lamp would eliminate any flicker as you say.. two would cancel but four would be amazingly stable ! Sometimes smaller is better eh! ..
I'm all for gadgets to make things do better than originally planned .. remember the ikea kitchen timer craze for timer shots ? .. that was so pants ! but they sold so many millions !!
Don't get me wrong Curtis, I love a bargain and often re-design a lot to my own needs but this one is on the edge of advertising surely ! And you can alter the luminant frequency with a basic light dimmer with most led lights nowadays. Who worries about your Swedish ! Det är okej med mig
Interesting idea worth testing! I’d like to understand whether multiple flicker in unison or out of phase from one another. Thanks!
All led lamps have their own exact frequency , none other that perhaps NASA quality are in so in tune . At least in Europe all supply power is supplied in AC therefore it is pulse power unless put through a sub dc frequency supply.. even at that level a led is based on a "glow" system that has a sub frequency far beyond the ability of human awareness but light is a funny old thing.. it is a bit quicker than we know .. The actual quality of the led lamp itself is the thing that matters . If you had the ability to test two together , you would see an infinitesimally minute of luminescence on or off , and that would be beyond the capability of the human eye. But would be present in dual luminescence . Light emitting diodes are supplied by pulse power even though it is direct current it has been passed through a minute transformer.. Everything in the universe has a frequency no matter how close it's wave form might be . No matter how we consider ourselves to be constant, we are all at and on a private and individual path. Stephen Hawking.
If it works , put me in for a quad lamp ... new task.. how to make a quad foldable brella ! Aha !! .. Minds eye ! .. What was the patent office number again ! ??
You seem like such a friendly likeable guy. I bet very few people dislike you. The ones who don't are probably bad people. LOL.
Haha, thanks Joe!
True, he is so non unlikeable ! ;)
I've seen people use these shop lights for narrative and the light output isn't really enough to light an interior scene without running high ISO, especially after bouncing or diffusing the light which is necessary for the vast majority of situations. You will end up opening up aperture a lot and if your budget involves shop lights then it's highly unlikely you'll have the tools to rack focus properly either. The clamps are a pain in the ass and you can't adjust intensity without a dimmer, which will probably be very noisy. You'll have to work pretty hard to make your stuff look good, when you could be renting a solid light kit for approximately the same cost per day as outright buying the shop lights. Then for personal fun projects a crappy set of eBay lights designed for film won't cost much more than shop lights and will come with stands and basic diffusion. Only use these in an emergency.
Yes, all fair points for a bigger set and bigger production. For single talking head shots, this can work.
Dimmable LEDs are very important.
Another good point. Dimming is easier than using scrims to reduce light output.
This isn't the one you had in your car last week is it; (tongue in cheek)? I'm waiting for that review.
It is not. :) Still to be revealed on the 30th of March.
Hmm. Curtis, have you tested Solhetta? It seems to be superior to AND cheaper than the rest of IKEA LED bulbs. The moment I heard about it, I was very 'desperate' to getting it. Cheaper and better than its predecessors, so I thought to myself "I must get it! Now! Instant!". Thankfully, the particular one that I want is out of stock. I probably would regret buying it if the R9, R13, R15 suck big time.
That one which I want is non-dimmable. I understood that dimmable LED of any brands could cause flickering even when it is claimed not to flicker.
The two different solhetta bulbs I tried were pretty bad IMHO, way worse than the ledare series, with a distinct yellowish tint that seems very unatural.
@@posleterrible9542 Hmm. That tint ought to be all right. Can be easily corrected by white balance. Much better than one or few 'essential' spectrums are absolutely devoid or too low.
I have Chinesium LED that claims to be 150W and full spectrum, but it is only 45W and my skin is like that of Morticia Addams. Not exaggeration. Neither white balance nor colour correction with applications will cure images (videos) which lack or devoid of those necessary spectrums. Very powerful applications can colour correct weird-looking images, but they still appear exceedingly weird. Every film company will not bother to spend so much money buying specific exorbitant light source/s should white balance or colour correction can be easily corrected using Chinesium light source/s.
About Wattage, yes, I know it is inaccurate to use Watt for LED. Just a lousy but well-known thing like CRI. The world has moved away from CRI but the world still uses it because familiarity is hard to be killed.
@@realchristopher4334 you will have to try them for your application. I have no way to check their spectrum, but to my eyes the problem is more than a simple temperature shift or gentle spectrum alteration. In my local IKEA they still have Ledare E27 1600 bulbs, which although nowhere near as efficient are much more color accurate and natural than the Solhetta I tired. I still have one Solhetta bulb in my house and this strikes me every time I enter the room it is installed in.
@@posleterrible9542 Oh. All right. I cannot compare Ledare and Solhetta of the same specifications.
Ledare (E27 and A type) is no longer available in my local IKEA. I read or heard that Solhetta will completely and totally replace Ledare in time, if my memory serves me correctly.
I thought Solhetta is the best and the cheapest LED because it is unnaturally efficient (hundreds of lumens per Watt as opposed to common tens of lumens per Watt) AND the 90+ CRI claim. And because it is very expensive to make LED with both highly efficient AND realistic colour reproduction.
pity they don't have any neutral white 5600K bulbs. I love warm white in my house but not on video.
You just change the white balance on your camera and it looks the same.
@@curtisjudd Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out
Curtis, why is it that you leave the one and only test out that makes sense: Show us lighting examples of skin next to a tungsten/Aputure source so we can make up our mind if that's good enough for us. You talk about "greenish casts" but don't show them. Bogs me. Cause I have been waiting for a video like this one!
Sorry Vautksch, I wanted to do the demo with skin tones but ran out of time and didn’t have a willing sit-in. I’ll endeavor to do better in the future where possible.
Just use 1 dollar incandescent for everything, especially in the winter
If you can still find them. :)
@@curtisjudd Thanks for your reply:) Incandescent bulbs are not banned in where I live. I guess it's a different story elsewhere then.
Thanks for this, it's quite interesting.
You need to brush up on your Swedish, though ;-)
“Ledare” and “Ryet” will both have the emphasis on the first syllable.
“Ledare” (which means “leader”) you should have a good chance of getting just about right. But you might be in trouble with the “y” in “Ryet” as it's not a sound used in english at all. The meaning in Danish is “the reputation” or “the renown”, but I don't find the word “ry” in my Sweedish dictionary, and although the languages are very similar, identical words don't always mean the same.
(For instance “det lilla korset” means “the small cross” in Swedish but “the purple girdle” in Danish).
Thanks Lau, I should have messaged you first :)
I don't think IKEA meant ledare as leader, more likely that they meant conductor. Alltså elektrisk ledare.
Thanks. I don't know if that makes sense though, after all it's not a cable. I think maybe it's just a word-play: LED light, what can we do with that? Ah! LEDare - like the leader in it's class, or like, it leads you in the dark.
Most of IKEA:s products are named quite oddly. IKEA sells a textile cleaning agent and it is called Fittja. Fittja is a neighbourhood in Stockholm that has more than 90 % immigrats.
So, if you bought your clothes too large, after you've used it, they'll fittja?
Look what I found at HomeDepot, an 18,000 lumen dimmable bay light for $99.00. What do you think of this light for video production, of course in a pinch?
Wow. Does it have a CRI or SSI rating on the packaging?
@@curtisjudd CRI 80
Oof, no, not good.
Ledare, ikea made a silly pun, LEDare == leader :) Ryet makes no sense at all guess they are running out of Swedish words known to me.
Thanks for the insight!
Ledare also means Conductor in electrical wire so it's more ingenious than that! Pronounced Le' dare, in a way that you pronounce Leader
Ryet is just a word meaning an area somewhere in the backyard, out in nowhere, a kind of.... no specific meaning.
RYET sounds cheap.. And RYET is cheap.. so it fits :D
Aren't key lights generally spot lights?
If you want hard light for a look that is more "film noir". For interviews, I almost always use softer light (through a scrim or soft box).
Please Curtis, activate subtitles
I would like to do that, but at present I do not have the time to fill in the subtitles since I create these videos in my spare time which is limited. I gladly accept all subtitle contributions.
ok I understand it but I am referring to youtube's automatic subtitles
I think they are on. Do you know where I can check?
Most bulbs in stores around here wont even tell you the CRI...
I mostly just do still photography for ebay and I use Sylvania _"premium full spectrum 5000k octron T8 48 inch 32w"_ bulbs in 6 bulb bay lights on light stands.
They claim a CRI of 90 which was about as good and affordable as I could get locally and my skin tone looks pretty spot on as well.
Each bulb is only 1800 lumens which is about 1k lumens less than most T8's so there's a trade off.
Thanks for the tip on the Sylvania bulbs. Good info to keep on hand.
While I got your attention check out a relatively new LED put out by Yuji LED.
It's about 500watts and has a claimed CRI of 95+
This could be a good LED for people can modify old/cheap fresnel studio lights and want light up a football field XD
((BC Series High CRI High Power Density COB LED Daylight 5600K - BC270H))
Thanks! Any idea where to buy bulbs or instruments with these LEDs in them? I'm not quite DIY enough to make my own.
I'm not sure who's using them. Manufacturers don't usually publish their material sources. You might try asking Yuji LED.
Its pronounced Leeedarre (lite "Darren", whitout the n in the end) :)
Thank you!
Looks like you need better lighting yourself. Look at the huge shadow on the side of your face around the 2:48 mark. Just saying, but it does sounds like you know what you need. Maybe you just don't have the right lighting at the moment.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, flags.
more ikea lighting over here...ua-cam.com/video/HEGDH905guc/v-deo.html
Nice, thanks. I was worried when the opening scene was a dude in his black underwear, but it got much better very quickly. ;-)
Well, that "dude" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Sandberg) after those shorts has been called by hollywood and directed 2 movies (Lights out 5M $ budget, 150M $ box office+ Annabelle Creation , 15M$Budget, 300M $ Box office) ..not a bad career...
Agreed! I was just carrying his joke forward. Not only is he an experienced professional filmmaker, but also a good educator. Thanks!
with such poor R9 values, they are still not good, even for domestic use. im sticking to halogen for my home. i wonder how many more decades i will have to wait for a domestic LED bulb that can even begin to compare to incandescent. this is not progress, people.
Starting to see a few video LED instruments that can achieve SSI scores of 90 so we’re slowly creeping in the right direction. But I agree. I’d like to see faster progress.