ePhoto Photography Video Perfect Daylight CFL Fluorescent Light Bulb 5500K Daylight Balanced 45W

Let me start off my saying I am an amateur photographer with a basic home portrait studio. Before these bulbs, I had the square perfect $26 bulbs until they started dimming. Along with this, I bought the Cowboy studio version of this bulb. Needless to say, both, especially this one worked great. It worked just as well as my old $26 bulb when it was new, and even brighter than my cheaper cowboystudio bulb. The look and feel of it in your hands in itself feels high quality and I would recommend it to anyone trying to look for BOTH good quality and a good price.

What can one write about a light bulb? I'm not a professional photographer, but as best I can tell this bulb puts out a very nice white light that helps make my photos look better. At first I tried using a standard non-photography light bulb I purchased from Home Depot, but the pictures I took using a standard bulb appeared to have a yellow haze on them. For that reason I think it was wise for me to buy this bulb because it makes my photos look better, and saves me a lot of time trying to fix lighting problems with software after the pictures have been taken.

I purchased this ligth bulb recently to go with the Adorama AC Socket with Light Stand Adapter & Umbrella Holderand it works fine. The bulb is a bit large but I knew that going in. I already purchased a trigger/reciever system CowboyStudio NPT-04, 4 Channel Wireless Hot Shoe Flash Trigger Receiver for an off camera flash but I wanted to also try a "constant light source" as an alternative and this bulb was the choice. With my umbrella, this light bulb has the necessary wattage to produce the light necessary for my needs without "over-producing" brightness. The AC light stand adaptor I purchased separately is actually of better quality than I originally thought. For the money, a great value for everything here. For those reviews who said these were of poor quality, I say, "Take care of your stuff!" I am perhaps overly careful with my camera and photo equipment, but that is how you should be! I highly recommend the bulb and the AC socket light stand adaptor to any photographer wishing to experiment wih portable lighting equipment.

I got a set of 3 of these for my game room since we play a LOT of cards in there. Let me tell ya, these suckers put out some serious light and because the wattage is so low I can run multiple in a ceiling fan with the chandelier adapters. I turn on the lights in the game room and it's like the sun came out. Nobody has any problem reading their cards at all. In face, we started with 3 of them and had to back off to 2 because they were a little TOO bright with 3 in the same room :)

I purchased this for product photography but it is just far too weak to be of much use and the color is a bit too blue, there no way this bulb is 5500k, it's much cooler, but that can be fixed with correct white balance or in post I only mention it for the sake of bringing all issues to the table. If you are trying to diffuse the light with an umbrella forget it, it has an effective range of about 12", just enough to provide some back light in a portrait with the umbrella just out of shot, if you need/want to take photos of inanimate objects on a flat surface either you have to have it so close it's in the way of the camera or so far it's not effective enough.

I purchased and received an item that says it is 45 Watts and would resemble a 200 Watt bulb output, this is on the box. After leaving this plugged in to a lamp rated to handle up to a 125W bulb, the bulb only pulls 25 Watts. See image. Further, while the light looks about 5500K as advertised, the brightness is not up to par. I have to return it. For a bulb, this is not cheap. When I pay for something advertised to perform at a certain level, I want what I put out good money for. I can pick up 23W 5500K bulbs cheaply if that is what I had wanted. I particularly dislike that a seller would intentionally mislead and lie. This is FALSE ADVERTISING. Shame on ePhoto. I recommend you do not buy from this seller.UPDATE: I just put in a different 200W-replacement CFL bulb, a 42W by Luxrite. It warmed up to a bright, 5000K coloration, 2820 lumens, and the kill-a-watt showed 36W draw. Better.

These bulbs are not made for being the main light source for a glamour shoot. They are made to be lit behind umbrellas and light boxes as complementary vanity lights to give the subject a soft bluish-white glow.I even actually use these around the house as alternatives to my regular lamps with their yellowish bulbs. White light is always more pleasing and easier on the eyes, and so I also recommend these if you want to give your home an alternate color lighting.And at this price(below ten dollars), they are highly recommended!

I purchased one of these bulbs, a $25 Kino-Flo bulb and shot the same setup/ color chart + grey cards exclusively illuminated by each bulb, then with flash and then in daylight. Looking at all of them together, the ePhoto bulb rally stands out as being obviously green. Technically to get a neutral grey, I had to pull out not only green but some red and yellow as well. I also noticed that even though the ePhoto is listed as 45 watts and the Kino-Flo is listed as 26 watts, the actual output is very similar. In conclusion, if your only light source will be these bulbs (such as a studio) then it is easy to color correct them to a neutral color, and they are cheap (although you may need more than you expected.) But if you are mixing light sources, and are using these as fill in a natural light environment or have other 5500 kelvin bulbs, you will have trouble with cross over color, so I would not recommend them for that application. I will add some magenta filtration and use them for a light controlled workstation.