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Can anyone please give me some advice please. I want to take photographs of packaging for counterfeit products and I have a light tent and also tripods and a flatbed stand. But I'm not sure of the best lighting. I am thinking of getting continuous day light lamps but I'm not sure which colour temperature or wattage would be best. Can anyone recommend any and where I could purchase them? I'm Using a Canon EOS400D and a 100mm macro lens.

Thanks.
 
Hi Tony,
Welcome to the forum.
Just to be clear here, you don't want to take pictures of packaging
to replicate (it) them do you?
This of course is illegal.
 
No, I'm not trying to replicate packaging. I'm going to work for a start up company which analyses counterfeit pharma products. I'm actually a spectroscopist but part of the testing involves packaging. I've done a bit of photography but I'm not an expert but I want to get the lighting right.
 
Thanks for the reply.
I hope you get the help you need :)
 
If you're going to use a light tent you will get flat, uninteresting photos that will illustrate what you're trying to photograph fairly adequately, and I'm guessing that this is what you want.

It doesn't really matter what kind of lighting you use, any type of lighting will produce similar results with a light tent, and it doesn't matter how powerful it is either, because a tripod will hold the camera steady for the inevitable long exposure needed if the lights have low power.

Colour doesn't really matter either, as long as all of the lighting has the same colour.

Fluorescent lights though are probably the best bet, because they are relatively cool, as long as the colour rendition doesn't need to be particularly accurate. If you do need good colour accuracy, then either flash or a filament lamp will be better.
 
Thank you Gary and Steve, very useful advice I think I'm going to go for the fluorescent bulbs that you recommended. I'm very happy I found this forum!
 
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