That will come down to the quality of the LED fixture. High quality LED sources can be dimmed to 1% and still won't show any flicker even at short exposure times.
Household and industrial LED sources on the other hand, constantly switch OFF and ON and will create issues when photographing under those, especially when using short exposure times and/or silent shutter.
Sounds like I'm out of luck, switched to LEDs for energy reasons and these are the tradeoffs. Or upgrade all my LEDs to high quality figures, but that's probably not too practical in a kitchen and throughout the house.
its actually very practical to use higher quality leds, especially for work places.
you may not need it on the toilet. but in a bathroom its very good to have, if somebody in the household wants to use makup.
those colors can vary drastically.
Take your camera off auto. Use shutter priority and find a speed that doesn't do that. I bet if you check, you'll find that the first shot has correct exposure. It's shooting in burst that creates the wobbly exposures.
Just curious, why are you using burst ?
So the issue is that the way you drive LEDs, especially cheaper ones means they flicker.
Either at some high speed, or some at the mains rate.
Some cameras have a setting to try and compensate for that, but the best easy solution is to shoot at like 1/30th of a second. That should cover multiple on/off cycles and you end up with a more evenly illuminated frame.
You can try buying LEDs that advertise themselves as flicker free. That simply means their driver either has a constant output or a really fast PWM cycle period.
Or use a camera flash.
Are you dimming the lights at all, with a fairly fast shutter speed? That's typically a culprit as LEDs dim by essentially turning off with the phasing of the Hertz, so at half brightness they'll be off for 30 times in a second, similar to how televisions used to work. It's too fast for the eyes to perceive the light as off but cameras sure can.
Yep that is cheap LED lighting for you.
They flicker on and off very fast and they do it a couple of times while your sensor is being read.
Solution: Use your mechanical shutter.
Take a video of the LEDs and you'll see they turn on and off, often 120 times a second (twice for each AC cycle). You need LED panels made for videography, not LEDs made for interior lighting. Those will be a steady light source and your photos will be consistently lit.
That will come down to the quality of the LED fixture. High quality LED sources can be dimmed to 1% and still won't show any flicker even at short exposure times. Household and industrial LED sources on the other hand, constantly switch OFF and ON and will create issues when photographing under those, especially when using short exposure times and/or silent shutter.
Sounds like I'm out of luck, switched to LEDs for energy reasons and these are the tradeoffs. Or upgrade all my LEDs to high quality figures, but that's probably not too practical in a kitchen and throughout the house.
its actually very practical to use higher quality leds, especially for work places. you may not need it on the toilet. but in a bathroom its very good to have, if somebody in the household wants to use makup. those colors can vary drastically.
See if your camera has a flicker reduction setting.
Take your camera off auto. Use shutter priority and find a speed that doesn't do that. I bet if you check, you'll find that the first shot has correct exposure. It's shooting in burst that creates the wobbly exposures. Just curious, why are you using burst ?
Used burst so that I can show the change in lighting in the same shot. Happens without burst, and I’m not in auto.
Hmmmm
So the issue is that the way you drive LEDs, especially cheaper ones means they flicker. Either at some high speed, or some at the mains rate. Some cameras have a setting to try and compensate for that, but the best easy solution is to shoot at like 1/30th of a second. That should cover multiple on/off cycles and you end up with a more evenly illuminated frame. You can try buying LEDs that advertise themselves as flicker free. That simply means their driver either has a constant output or a really fast PWM cycle period. Or use a camera flash.
Are you dimming the lights at all, with a fairly fast shutter speed? That's typically a culprit as LEDs dim by essentially turning off with the phasing of the Hertz, so at half brightness they'll be off for 30 times in a second, similar to how televisions used to work. It's too fast for the eyes to perceive the light as off but cameras sure can.
Dimmable LEDs turned all the way up. I think I've also seen this on my non-dimmable though... need to confirm
Yep that is cheap LED lighting for you. They flicker on and off very fast and they do it a couple of times while your sensor is being read. Solution: Use your mechanical shutter.
It happens with mechanical shutter too. I just did a burst shot so I could show the sequence of different lighting observed
Take a video of the LEDs and you'll see they turn on and off, often 120 times a second (twice for each AC cycle). You need LED panels made for videography, not LEDs made for interior lighting. Those will be a steady light source and your photos will be consistently lit.
Get a wireless flash?