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

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 :)

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.

I purchased this ligth bulb recently to go with the Adorama AC Socket with Light Stand Adapter & Umbrella Holder and 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.

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 bought this to replace a 65W flood light bulb in my office. I was looking for something much brighter and this bulb is definitely brighter. It turns on instantly and there have not been any problems so far. Update: The bulb died after 11 months. Great while it lasted but far too short for a CFL.

I use these bulbs for work, and they're great. They're reliable, they warm up quickly, they give good output, and they're packaged well. They do give a little green tint, but it's only minimally noticeable and it's not something you can't cc away quickly in post. Overall a great budget lighting option.

The flickering that some people sense in a fluorescent bulb is magnified in this bulb. It may be good for photo applications, but just okay for a regular work light. Still, it is very bright. UPDATE: four months later it burned out. Can't Recommend.

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.