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    Cheap Chinese Craptastic ("C3") lights generally give awful color rendition which gets even worse after very little use. Stick to Cool Lights or Lite Panel.
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    They work great. 1/4 or half minus green brings them in line with daylight. You aren't going to rent them out, but they are perfectly fine for your own use. I know a bunch of guys with these. They hold up pretty well to abuse as well.

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    What is their effective wattage?
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    They put out more light than Kinos. I am not sure how to approximate the wattage since they are a soft source. I think they are pretty close to a mole 750 soft light in output, with a little more punch. If you look around ebay you can find them with a battery bracket or a 12volt input which is very usefull.

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    If you're ok with ugly skin rendition which 1/4 minus does not really fix, as parts of color spectrum are missing, then they are awesome. Low-end corporates love them for their ease of us, I don't because the quality is not there.

    To at least some degree, you get what you pay for.
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    Rob is right, of course. Since filters only remove colors from the spectrum, missing holes in the spectrum can't be fixed by adding filters.

    I definitely am not a fan of LEDs.

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