In this paper, an experimental method to evaluate the suitability of fluorescent lamp as a light source for color photography is described. In generally, fluorescent lamps are designed as a white light source based upon the metameric matching, but because of the defferences in spectral sensitivity of color photographic materials as compared with color matching function of human vision the failure of metameric matching exist in color photography. The authors examined the application and the modification of the method of specifying color rendering properties of light source to evaluate the suitability of fluorescent lamp in color photographic field. The obvious correlations between the parameters which introduced by the authors and the psychological evaluation, on reproduced colors that photographed by Ektachrome X, Kodachrome 25 and Kodachrome 64 with fluorescent lamp lighting, had obtained.