Tagged with cfl - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/cfl/feed.rss Sun, 28 Apr 24 00:08:22 +0000 Tagged with cfl - Personal View Talks en-CA Newbie looking for CFL advice http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/10846/newbie-looking-for-cfl-advice Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:31:30 +0000 Brian_Siano 10846@/talks/discussions Here's the background. I did a shoot a few weeks ago, using a GH2 and the Cake patch, to shoot interviews. We set up a lighting rig using three LED panels and umbrella stands. While we were shooting my camera's screen showed a set of green bands running horizontally across the image. This was new to me, but I reasoned that the adjustable LED panels might be causing it-- you know, refresh rates and alla that. So I switched to 100-watt incandescent bulbs for the rest of the shoot.

Well, the footage shot with the LEDs was fine, no green bands. But the 100-watt bulbs weren't as bright. So, it seems to me that I should use more powerful lights, and I'm thinking CFLs equivalent to 200-watt incandescents.

So my question is: what color temperature should I look for? Floods or standard configurations (for use with white-umbrella stands)? Do they make dimmable high-power CFLs, so I can adjust the lighting more delicately? (And if I did this dimming thing, would there be problems like flicker or banding with my GH2?)

Sorry if this has been asked before, but the info I found was in many different threads,and I figured, let's assemble it all in one post/thread.

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