What color temperature (soft white vs. daylight) are your bulbs?

#1

I’m genuinely curious to know,

What color temperature are your light bulbs? Are they soft white (2700K), or daylight (5000K)?

For me, I have some 2700k soft white LED bulbs in my ceiling fan, and I have some LIFX Color 1000 bulbs in my floor lamp, which I prefer at 3500K during normal use (as I think the 2750K it offers looks too red), and I set them to 5000K (and turn off my ceiling fan to avoid mashing color temperatures) when I film my YouTube videos.

The rest of the house is soft white, with the exception of 2 daylight bulbs that the previous owner had installed.

I prefer soft white for every day “life,” but I use daylight for shooting video, as it’s far superior for color replication on camera.

What do you use?

#2

Daylight at work and off white at home. It’s hard to get enough daylight here so having those bulbs at work helps. At home we have a work light that is daylight but the rest are normal. I use lights too late at night at home to use daylight bulbs.

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#3

Only recently started moving to energy saving / LED bulbs are earlier versions I used had appallingly low light. Found cool white to be good in utility areas but prefer soft white in living areas.

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#4

I prefer soft white in most areas of my house, but we use daylight bulbs at work.

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#5

They do 100W equivalent LED bulbs now and they are properly bright.

#6

Soft white in most of the house. WE use 60W Daylight LED Bulbs in the Hall and in the office.
We use a mixture of Soft and Daylight in the kitchen to get it bright enough.

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#7

I have soft white everywhere but daylight in my garage. When I go to change the bulbs for outside they will be daylight. The soft white blends better with the sunlight to me.

#8

I personally prefer daylight (5000K) for all my indoor lights.

#9

Yeah, those are the ones I am slowly migrating to. Actually think the ones I have equate to 110w.

#10

Whatever is on sale. Everything is turning into the CFL’s. So I guess those.

#11

Daylight for just about everything. Except I have a super low brightness soft white light that I leave on when watching tv so that other people in my house can still see

#12

Dang. CFLs are super old school, but whatever works!

#13

Gotta say, I’m surprised at how many people prefer daylight. It sort of gives me a headache, mainly at night.

#14

I like the daylight in the house in most places, but we have some lamps with yellowed bulbs to help with going to bed.

#15

Mostly softwhite (2700k) in bed, bath, and living rooms. Coolwhite for outdoor use aside from softwhite for accent fixtures. Daylight (5000k) in kitchen and dining room.

#16

I like the daylight for the crisp and clean color it gives. I rely on the lamp shade (usually a white one) to block the harshness of the light, or I angle them more or less straight down or up. I’m also younger (college age) so lights don’t give me a headache yet