Lighting is a real issue if you are doing anything involving video or pictures.
While incandescent and halogen are more broad-spectrum, they are also good for heating in winter!
The main problem is the spectrum of light that lower-powered lights emit. CFLs and LEDs are not even-spectrum devices, with definite peaks in their output. So when you buy say 4000K lights, that being a measure of the blue to red ratio only, colours can look quite different under them, depending upon whether you are looking at them directly or viewing what the camera sees, due to differences in the receiving spectral response. Our video-cam is a Panasonic HDC-HS700 -- top of the line consumer device when we bought it, with separate R, G and B sensors.
You can do your white balance, but that does not stop the misrepresentation of colours. To illustrate, we use CLF 4100K globes in the studio where we record audio and YouTube videos, where:
a) May hair is greyish, but it comes out a flattering dark, almost looking suspiciously like I dye it!
b) We have RGB LED strips to throw a tinge to the edges of the white backdrop, but red hardly registers and blue over-registers on the camera.
In sunlight, the camera shows colours fine.
I would imagine that even wide-colour-gamut monitors would mis-register colours under these lights. Calibrating them without catering for the ambient light would be pointless. My calibration device definitely does not cater for that.
Unfortunately, while I have a wide range of skills, accurate colour representation eludes me at this time. At the moment, I am content to have found a particular working arrangement that caters for our limited performance scenarios.
I would definitely appreciate any suggestions as to better low-powered lighting devices.
