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Searching For Daylight Balanced Chandelier Practicals

Carey Lee Coffey

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Does anyone know where I can get some soft, white, daylight balanced chandelier bulbs. Most of these bulbs I've come across are 2700k.

I found some 5500k bulbs on Amazon, but they don't work in my chandelier. I have a standard, household chandelier.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
 
You might try Ikea. I know they have a lot of LED bulbs for odd fixtures, but the color temp is probably not going to be too great. I have a pretty huge collection of practical bulbs, but I don't think I have ever seen anything other than tungsten and LED. Probably easier match everything to the chandelier bulbs if you want one color temp.

Good luck with the search.

Nick
 
Nick Gardner said:
You might try Ikea. I know they have a lot of LED bulbs for odd fixtures, but the color temp is probably not going to be too great. I have a pretty huge collection of practical bulbs, but I don't think I have ever seen anything other than tungsten and LED. Probably easier match everything to the chandelier bulbs if you want one color temp.

Good luck with the search.

Nick
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Thanks Nick, but the entire scene needs to be pure white. Infinite white. So it would be very difficult to match all of my HMI's etc. to these little practicals. Kino make practicals that are daylight balanced. But they are too big. They are for lamps and such. I need these to be close enough to 5500 that they will not stick out like a sore thumb. I know someone has got to have them out there somewhere. I'll keep googling. If anyone finds any, I'd be grateful. I'm considering meticulously wrapping and gluing some CTB around the 2700's to try to them get them to match. I'll just keep experimenting until I get it. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!
 
It'll take some trial and error, but you could paint the glass on the outside of those 2700k bulbs blue, to get you closer to 5600K.

A DP I used to work for had a whole box of practical bulbs and a bunch were painted blue. Unfortunately, I never asked him about any details (like type of paint, color of paint, or how many coatings), so I probably can't help you there. But it may be worth testing!
 
Marcus Friedlander said:
It'll take some trial and error, but you could paint the glass on the outside of those 2700k bulbs blue, to get you closer to 5600K.

A DP I used to work for had a whole box of practical bulbs and a bunch were painted blue. Unfortunately, I never asked him about any details (like type of paint, color of paint, or how many coatings), so I probably can't help you there. But it may be worth testing!
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Yes, I've been researching heat-resistant spray paint.
 
Hmm...

Can you actually not changing the bulbs on the chandelier, but adding more orange tone on other lights to balance it?

Let's say... if you balanced 5500 in entire set without the chandelier. chandelier look orange what's so over. But, may be adding CTB to make every lights on 2700-3200 range and matching with Chandelier could simply make everything white when you balance in your camera. It might help you instead buying one :)

Just one another thought

I am a DIY guy... it may work very well :)

Note: you will lose 1-1.5 stops of lights due to using filter...and it might give you headache if you were specific about your depth of the field and limited with budget.
 
Ryan Purcell said:
I agree with Minu! Shoot tungsten balanced and if you have a lot of windows cover them with full CTO.
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Real ambient daylight can be a tremendous asset. CTOing all the windows in a big hall may be impractical. Wth Dragon, I'm sometimes OK with the orange cast, as long as that tungsten light isn't bathing an actor and just lighting the set.
 
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