do I need daylight bulbs?

[timmygcsc2308]

just bought a light tent from ebay, and so obviously I'll need to light it.
Do I need to use daylight bulbs or will incadescent suffice?
I'm only asking since incadescent daylights are about a tenner for two and energy saving daylight are about 20quid for two. Sure its not the end of the earth but every little helps..

so couldn't I set two lamps up either side with incadescent or regular energry savers (my 20W General Electric Spiral 20p specials from Tesco - I swear to god these are better and give a more pleasing light source than regular incadescents) then manually adjust my white balance to the same kelvins as that shown on the bulb packet and save it as a preset? :shrug:

 

[HoppyUK]

Shooting to JPEG, using one of the white balance pre-sets will probably be fine. If not, just do a custom white balance by shooting a piece of plain white paper in the light tent - takes two seconds (see handbook). Forget setting Kelvins.

Shooting Raw, you can correct the colour in post processing regardless of the in-camera setting.

 

[timmygcsc2308]

ok thanks for the tips hoppy..so thats a no then..I don't need to shell out on relatively expensive bulbs for my little hobbyist use cheers

 

[Alastair]

As long as all the lighting is the same type then you shouldn't have problems adjusting in post. Shoot raw and take a white balance test shot at the start with a grey or white target.