New Incan Fan

[ampdude]

The high CRI LED indeed does a good job of rendering color in the sample photos but I'm not sure if the amber color of the P60 is a good comparison. Can I see that comparison using a hotwire such as the WA1185 bulb.

Yes, the high CRI led's are very color neutral as evidenced by those excellent pictures but their 3D/outdoor performance is still lacking.

 

[RobertM]

Um, well, depending on the white balance setting of the camera......

Can you be more specific in where you feel my methodology is incorrect? As stated in my post, all were shot with WB set to Daylight (5100k).

I was assuming the experiment was executed well enough to control that variable, that is leaving the WB set the same for all the pictures..

It wasn't terribly scientific a test either way, but it did demonstrate at least good CRI performance out of an LED.

The proper way to do this test is to compare the graphs from the RAW file of the originals to the RAW files from the different bulbs..

I hope they were taken in RAW!

All shots were RAW with the WB constant at 5100k. CPF member Bass commented that he would like to be able to compare CRI only, without the differing color temperatures. I posted a second set with all WB neutralized. In the second comparison, you can see that incandescent does barely edge out the high CRI LED (especially in red reproduction), but not by a whole lot. Second set of photos: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3538795#post3538795

How much light do you get out of a high CRI LED? I would also like to see a comparison with a good hotwire, but I suspect that my hotwires not only have 100 CRI but also put out a LOT more light than the high CRI LEDs do. I have at least 5 incans that would put out over 1000 Lumen (at least 2 that would be >5000).

However I can see that for the lights you want to be smaller and more efficient like for EDC - high CRI LEDs are a good option.

I think the upper limit for a true high CRI LED (90+ CRI) is about 100-150 lumens at the moment. So if you need/want a lot more light along with high color rendering, obviously an incandescent will be the way to go.

 

[flashfiend]

Just posted some photos here.

I still don't have a 'real' High CRI LED yet but hope to have a Nichia based NeoFab light in the near future for further comparison. For now I still love my hotwire incans but I would also love to find a High CRI LED with near hotwire lumens.