Using flashlight as fill light

This might be a very silly question, but I am considering buying a good flashlight with
1) adjustable brightness
2)relatively neutral illumination
3) most "diffuse" and even lighting
to use as both flashlight and fill light for both portraits and night photography.

Is there such things that exists?

No flashlight will ever be designed to provide evenness of illumination across the field of light. Most have noticeable hot areas easily distracting to the eye. Color balance also is not going to be 'daylight'.

It sounds like you might want to look into getting an led light panel. They can be mounted on a hot or cold shoe, and give you continuous, daylight balanced light. Some even double as strobes. They are designed for video, but it sounds like they would work will for what you are talking about.

Something like these:

http://www.amazon.com …-keywords=photo+led+lig​ht

Actually if you check out Fenix lights you will find they have multiple models with warm white tints for better photoimaging. oh they are LED. Suggest you visit the Candlepower forum, it is a flashlight forum.

mltn wrote in post #14109737
It sounds like you might want to look into getting an led light panel. They can be mounted on a hot or cold shoe, and give you continuous, daylight balanced light. Some even double as strobes. They are designed for video, but it sounds like they would work will for what you are talking about.

Something like these:

http://www.amazon.com …-keywords=photo+led+lig​ht

That looks great but if possible, it would be great if they can be given double duty as flashlight for hiking in the dark -- but that doesn't seem too practical with those.

shoenberg3 wrote in post #14110703
That looks great but if possible, it would be great if they can be given double duty as flashlight for hiking in the dark -- but that doesn't seem too practical with those.

And if they could do triple duty as a distress signal..

And quadruple duty as a pointer...

And... Gosh, be reasonable!

I used my EDC flashlight as a "fill light" the other night

It was a Sunwayman V10R TI flashlight, which has infinitely variable brightness, and I just dialed it up enough to get the reflectors on the side of a police vehicle to light up a little bit (I was at something like 1/50 f2.8 12800iso, so didnt need much light at all, and the constant light helped focus too)

I have also used my Maxabeam to fill shadows at a fire scene at night (50ish metres away from the roadblock, but that is a kinda specialty searchlight, not a normal carry light.

Some of the new flashlights are amazing In terms of output, and colour.
I have a light that is 1000 lumens has a very floody even beam, and is around 4500k
I have used it for photos, normally just to fill shadows or light up reflectors to help focus in the dark.

I have used it as a primary light source for one job i remember though, bounced into a big industrial bin to illuminate a "dumpster diver"

Have a look at Candlepowerforums - there is a lot of information there, and the crew are just as helpful and friendly as POTN
Personally I would look for an infinitely variable output light, as you can then easily dial the light level up to what you need

These work much better than a flashlight, though they obviously won't work as well as something a bit more professional. Color balance can be a bit odd with some LED's, but that one seems to be close to daylight.

Zebralight H501w

Gives you a neutral tinted light with multiple brightness levels and has a completely flood beam with no discernible hotspot.

I've used a Kell penlight to help light a telephone in a Bell Telephone commercial ( remember them) we were in a lighthouse at night and I had a small fresnel light (inky) coming from behind and wanted just enough light on the front to see the dial. I asked my camera assistant if I could use his Kell penlight, you can kind of focus it aid and spot. I taped some toilet paper loosely across the front to make it softer and had him hold it on the dial as a hand reached into the scene to pick up the receiver. After that I always carried one of my own in my meter case, just in case!