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I have seen a few tutorials on lighting that have suggested using natural day light bulbs. But what I want to now is are they that much better than ordinary bulbs?
If you use these bulbs please tell me what you think of them.
Thanks
Penguinking 
Any help guys?
What I know about it is that natural daylight bulbs "produce" the same lightspectrum as the sun (of course;) ).
The advantage is that your lighting is very realistic, the colours are full and exactly as they are supposed to be. A standard light bulb radiate only a certain spectrum with mostly yellow colours (depending on the type). So the lighting will be 'yellowish'. But those bulbs are far more expensive as normal lightbulbs.
If you have quite a good camera, you will be able to change the whitebalans (and colourtemperature). With that you can do almost the same. If you turn down the colourtemperature, you'll get a less 'yellowish' color. But watching your latest video, I don't see any problems concerning lighting (a very funny one, by the way). I don't think you need them, your colours are realistic enough.
I hope this will help you (in spite of the late reaction) and sorry for my bad English:(
-Websitecommissie
I recently got 2 big daylight lamps down a boot fair. One was broken (but easily repaired) and the other was fine, I paid about a fiver for the 2. Plus they're normally £50 each (at least) new. They are fantastic, the light they give is incredible. So if you want some, hunt around a bit. But as websitecommissie said, you probably don't need them. 
They're worth it. I use 'em.
I use 'em too. They work like a charm.
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