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Hello,

Someone who paints with a daylightlamp and wat is the advantage?

greetz

I use a daylight lamp for painting. the advantage is that is is very bright so it is extremely easy to pick out details on your models, as well as your colors looking like they should (vs a yellower light if that makes sense. Another bonus is that LED daylight lamps do not get hot so your paint is not drying nearly as fast.

I have a daylight spectrum (6500k) bulb as the main light in my painting room and have a daylight desk lamp for more directed light.

They are much brighter than normal bulbs and don't make your eyes are tired.

But DON'T pay a ton of money for special "hobby" lamps, they are a total rip off, buy a normal desk lamp that takes a SES screw fitting (around £30 for a good adjustable one) and then buy a bulb for about £7. The hobby lamps can cost up to £100 and are exactly the same thing.

I use my SAD lamp and its ace as you get truer colours.

I used a Daylight lamp full spectrum on a Desk lamp. It was fine but it got very hot in a while. I found out that an energy saving light bulb that doesn't heat so much is just as good and is not very hard on the eyes, If you are just paining the intensity of the light bulb really doesn't matter and you don't have to be terribly close to it while you are painting or you'll be hurting your eyes.

For my videos I use one energy saving light bulb and works fine. Not the best lighting but works for now and allows the camera to see all the colors.

Alan

I just have a fluorescent desk lamp and it works wonders. Dirt cheap at Walmart and works like a charm. Or a lamp (which may or may not also be a charm).

technically, with a daylight lamp, you get 'true colour rendering'.
Other lamps have a tinge (eg normal house bulbs will be slightly yellow while fluorescent tubes tend to be slightly green).
This affects the way your eye interprets colour & the model may look different in daylight.

Green? I'd have thought blue if anything. Mine seems to be pure white though. Regardless, every room I play in has fluorescent lights so it's okay. Unless I play outside. But living in Canada it gets rather cold this time of year

Anyone who has an online site were i can buy the lamp ? In Belgium they don't really have it in the handyman stores.