Actually, if I recall right, Nichias have less “tint-shift” than Crees, so the bennies of a TIR vs reflector may not be as drastic. Still, I’m getting to like TIRs lots more than I did before.
A nice S2+, wide-angle TIR, and a 219B… that’d make a damned fine close-quarters light!
Sorry, can’t help with that! But then let us know how they shine
Ooookkkkk, I did it
Today I changed the reflector for a pebbled lens! Despite there was no major shifting in colour, as you said, the TIR lens enables other illumination, more floody! For my indoor use and the close range things I need it, it is better with the TIR than with the reflector!
I cut the plastic holder and that not only helps to fix better the lens and the LED, and it also helps to get a more homogeneous beam. I was using a small plastic gasket around the LED, but with that, in a real close beam, the small “blobs” of the lens were being noticed. With the holder in the back it gets more homogeneous :+1:
Eheh, indeed! :smiling_imp: :sunglasses:
I must confess that at first I thought that the flashlights with that “white” strong light were the best, and that those with “yellow” lights were old-fashioned, that they didn’t illuminate anything, as the “old” incandescent lights were a bit like that.
Then I got my first Convoy S2+ with the XML2 T6-4C, and my opinion radically changed!
Now I got my first Nichia, with a beautiful tint (the photos cannot express how good it looks at human sight!!!), and I’ve been converted :innocent:
Not that I’ll become a “tint snob” or that all my lights will all have these warm tints, but I surely be more aware of what can I expect from a light with a more warm tint like this :student:
You mean those 219A 2200K (or something like that) ones?
They’re not high CRI.
I got me a bunch a wile ago (ordered 3 pcs, they somehow sent me 6 pcs) but they’re not more that 80 CRI.
They are cheap though…
Especially with the warmer tints your eyes expect higher CRI and more deep red.
With cooler tints (5000K and more) i can live with lower CRI better.
And then the Crees benefit from their higher efficiency.
I still quite like the 3A tint from Cree LEDs.
Eheh, maybe I will I’m still learning about these CRI and tint things (among a lot of others… :person_facepalming: ), so I have a long path to run before that!
But now I’m sure I’m more inclined to get neutral to warm tints, despite CRI numbers as they are better to the eyes!
At least one of these AA flashlights will get a neutral LED (XML2 T6-3B) just to try how it works in terms of colour and fitting the lens itself! I guess it will be “cool” to have several in each colour temperature :sunglasses:
From then on…it’s just a matter of time to become snobish Eheheh
Thanks djozz Yup, it was a bit like that, as the main review was already made, so the more important and useful things (for me, at least) would be to provide information about other possibilities of lenses or reflector, or how the tint would look on those!
Hope this helps to other mods, in these or other flashlights :sunglasses: