thanks for the kind words guys...
Thanks for taking and posting these photos. :thumbsup:
For LED, the Nichia cool white is the closest to the true colour for me.
Theoretically, the Nichia cool white should be the closest to "true" color if you define the latter as daylight. Speaking of which, although the xenon flash is a decent stand-in, I think that a photo of the subject under actual daylight illumination for comparative purposes would be great.
As this LED doesn't cast an "artificial tint" to the object(s) being illuminated and it reveals quite a bit more details compare to others. Next are Nichia neutral and ZebraLight SC51c, both are equally impressive but they do cast a slight warmish tint to the object(s) being illuminated.
I agree about the warmish tint, since they are, after all, lower in color temperature, but in practice this isn't as pronounced to human eyes (and visual systems) as it is to a camera that is set to daylight white balance, as your camera appears to be. What I've done with photos in the past is adjust the white balance for each light source to achieve the closest match to what I see myself. Although this is not as objective in some ways, it is a way of communicating how different light sources practically affect color rendition; it also makes the comparison more fair.
Like many, I like neutral and warm white LED too, but this Nichia cool white really brings a whole new illumination experience to me.
The cool white Nichia (NS6W183AT-H1) is one that I've had my eye on for some time, as I consider daylight my ideal reference for color rendition, too. The Rebel (LXM3-PW51) in my ZebraLight H51c does a good job overall, but is definitely warmer than ideal (not as warm-looking as your photo shows, however, because my eyes adjust somewhat to the color temperature as well as lower levels of illumination). One thing I've noticed, however, is that many other HCRI LEDs have lots of red, even more than one would expect from their color temperatures, and that the Nichia LEDs are among them. Based on everything I've seen, I still think that the cool white HCRI Nichia is awesome (I want one!
), but it appears to have a bit too much red and maybe not enough green for its color temperature--it's as though they fixed the problems with common cool white LEDs but overdid it a little.
I'm nitpicking at this point, but it is noticeable, even just from photos.
