{"id":452,"date":"2010-03-21T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T02:40:05","slug":"cheap-low-wattage-studio-lighting-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/cheap-low-wattage-studio-lighting-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap, low-wattage studio lighting (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update on the photo studio project: I still need a flag and pole (any ideas?) but some advice from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megmitchell.com\/\">friend<\/a> and additional research has yielded a great inexpensive lighting option.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/48853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-491\" title=\"48853\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/48853.jpg\" alt=\"48853\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/48853.jpg 500w, https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/48853-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/48853-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/48853-REG\/Smith_Victor_401430_KT_500U_Photoflood_Tungsten_Light.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smith-Victor KT-500U Photoflood Tungsten Light Kit with Umbrellas (B&amp;H # SMKT500 Mfr # 401430)<\/a> looks like a decent and affordable kit, about 50% of which can be found at any hardware store sans brands.\u00a0But 250W is a lot of energy to waste on heat, and the Tungsten 3200\u00baK has a 20 hour life span, which is very short. While the daylight bulb only has a four-hour lifespan!<\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since I researched studio lighting, but with developments in CFLs and LEDs you can now get high lumen, always-on lights, that don&#8217;t waste energy and create so much heat that it makes it uncomfortable to work with them.<\/p>\n<p>So instead of the incandescent bulbs, I found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenelectricalsupply.com\/105-watt-medium-base-120-volt-6500k-spiral-spring-compact-fluorescent-bulbs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">these CFLs<\/a>. They are daylight-balanced (6500\u00baK), 105W (400W incandescent equivalent), and have a 8000 hour life span, all for less than $30 each.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/photography-lighting-equipment-techniques-forum\/00N8Bw\" target=\"_blank\">Photo geeks<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollitup.org\/indoor-growing\/32335-constructing-100-cfl-grow.html\" target=\"_blank\">indoor growers<\/a> also agree that the spectrum good.<\/p>\n<p>So for less than $200 I&#8217;m looking at a decent set of lights that doesn&#8217;t require a light meter (I have a grey card) and doesn&#8217;t get hot. It&#8217;s quite bright, but I can move it back or bounce it off or through the umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on the photo studio project: I still need a flag and pole (any ideas?) but some advice from a friend and additional research has yielded a great inexpensive lighting option. The\u00a0Smith-Victor KT-500U Photoflood Tungsten Light Kit with Umbrellas (B&amp;H # SMKT500 Mfr # 401430) looks like a decent and affordable kit, about 50% of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/cheap-low-wattage-studio-lighting-part-1\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Cheap, low-wattage studio lighting (part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[102,101,163],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-energy","tag-lights","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ovQg-7i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}