Hello,

I am putting together a small home studio which I plan to use to shoot for microstock amongst other things. It's a very small room (10ft x 6.5ft). I have two monolights and my experience so far using them in this room is that the room turns into an oven in no time. I have also recently discovered that replacement flashbulbs and light-modifiers are no longer available for these monolights.

As well as considering buying new monolights, I have also been considering the alternative of investing in a L.E.D continuous light setup. Aside from the advantage of LEDs running much cooler, I am also drawn to the advantage of seeing the effect of the light in real time as well as the option of using the lights for video. Obviously I would be using Daylight balanced lights with high CRI ratings.

My questions are these?

1) Are photographs lit with high CRI rated L.E.D lights still likely to fail quality control with the microstock agencies?

2) Are there any of you out there using L.E.D lights for studio-based microstock work? If so what is your experience?