Super bright white led wide angle

They call that a lambertian distribution as it follows Lambert's law.

A frosted bulb is Lambertian, a naked filament is batwing pattern (not always)

some references on ebay

https://cgi.ebay.com/Brilliant-White-LED-Lumiled-Luxeon-LXHL-BWO2-Phillips_W0QQitemZ150069204645QQihZ005QQcategoryZ66952QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Many of Luxeon's super-high-power LEDs ( http://www.lumileds.com/products/line.cfm?lineId=18 ) have a Lambertian distribution:

A polar plot of the same thing looks like this:

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We actually have wide angle white LED Bulb. Admitted there has been some problems with certain LED applications, however depending on the exact application, and engineering, I'm sure you could make it work for your purpose.

Donald,

Campbell Lighting

Hi Donald, I have a product using a small colour camera for inspection purposes. The FOV of the camera is around 95 degrees, so the nearer the o/p angle of the LED the better. I am looking for a conventional 5mm (ish) LED (not smt) that consumes <50mA. I have 4.8Vdc available. What are the limitations of your device (pdf file?) and cost. best regards, Andy

See here: www.elecosn.com

Here are dimmable LED Bulb, and LED incandescent bulb

Try http://www.dotlight.de/

They're very reasonably priced and ship to the UK no problem.