I think you are hopeless in that direction, since the thermal index of sun
light is about 6000 K, while the hottest alogen lamps I know slightly pass
3000 K. However commercial filters exist which may be combined with an
assigned lamp to produce sunlight like illumination. Moreover any quite
good digital images editor  program may be used to filter colours to
sunlight exposition.
Enzo Campani.

At 01.31 22/02/02 +0000, you wrote:
>         I have been enjoying the thread on photography.  My shell photo-ops
>have been limited to the website variety (30 -  60k, taken with a Sony
>"Mavica" camera designed to produce photos perfect for a fast-loading
>web-page - Mac-friendly too!!), but some day i may graduate to the
>mega-pixel range also...
>         My question is: can one purchase a light bulb that simulates natural
>sunlight close enough for natural colors to be represented properly?  I
>know there are ultra-hot, 300 watt beasties out there that last about 3
>hours, but this isn't exactly what i had in mind.  Perhaps a flourescant
>tube of some sort?  I've tried 3 kinds of "full spectrum" bulbs so far,
>but they are slanted towards to blue/violet end of the spectrum (i
>suspect some of the bluer photos in the Compendium were taken using this
>sort of light).  Hope someone has the answer - i'm getting desperate here!!
>
> >From the Slush Capital of the planet,
>Ross M.