Olivier
Well where I live, concern is growing about the LEDs mainly the blue light they can produce.
When located far from the eyes they are ok, but on a work bench I would not be so sure.

Smoke
I personally use an Ikea ledstrip with color-changing functionality just for this reason as a worklight, it really helps being able to more the color more towards yellow-white or even into different colors to correctly verify coverage and shapes.

If you buy proper warm white LEDs you will also have much less of an issue with blue coloration (cold white).

Spanjaard
thanks for the info!

Rui S
Thx for sharing😎

Nathan Dempsey
I worked in a print shop for many years. The entire building including all the office areas was as lit in 5500K to make sure all printed material was viewed in the same light. Later they had to light a separate building this way too. The marketing dept kept saying the prints looked different than it did in the print shop.

Spanjaard
thanks!

Ingmar Stöhr
I recently switched to LED. If you want to do any painting in that light don't use SOME white LEDs. Look for high CRI LEDs. CRI > 90 or even 95. Even for fluorescent bulbs there are special daylight variants. Just looking for color temperature is not enough!

Spanjaard
Thanks Ingmar

reina
viva el led

Sergej I
Spanjaard, I develop light for food and to support my hobby, what Ingmar wrote is the most important characteristic. Next to that, also watch out for frequency. LED light power supply mostly works via PWM signal, means it switches on and off many times per second. A LED is not like Wolfram bulbs, it actually turns off during their off time. It just tricks our visual nerve into seeing it as continuous. But in fact, after several hours, eyes and head can hurt us if the power supply is a cheap one.
So my advice, test every light in the store first. Wave your hand in front of the light and see if you can see a strobe-light disco effect. If yes, move on.
Temperature to your own liking, but suggest between 3500K and 5500K. I am using a 3000lm, 98% CRI, 3500K custom made spotlight for main above the table, then a second one commercial, which is a circle like LED, from the side.

Lode Schildermans
Spanjaard, I use cold white LED's for the modelling, especially for the PE, for the visibility. Priming and painting larger surfaces is also possible, but for the fine painting, weathering etc, I only do that with natural light

Rod -
Not sure if it matters, but LEDs emit almost zero UV light.

Spanjaard
thanks everybody 🙂