You have to choose flashlight with a cold, warm or neutral LED, what you choose?

Love 4000k, it’s really close to the sunlight.

5000k, perfect!

Isn’t warm white below 3700K according to cree ?

CW in snowy winter will hurt your eyes a lot… NW will look good and actually let me see things despite it’s “darker”….

FTFY :innocent:

In a flashlight I prefer 5000K, but what’s even more important is high CRI (>90).

I also love 5000K;)
Is there any LED 5000K and CRI90 +?

Nichia 219B and 219C, which you can find in lights like Emisar D4 and Astrolux MF-01.

Neutral White - Nichia 219CT 90CRI, 5000K
:+1:

4000K, which i consider to be Neutral.

I would agree with that.

I’ve found. (With MY old eyes)
That Neutral 4000 to 5500, is better for looking AT things within sensible and closer radii.

Long Distance. “spot” type range\ usage.(5600 to 7000)
I find the white seems to give me sharper definition t’ween items in the beam
Easier for me to define them…

3 to 4000 is nah. to me.
But there again. Good days. Bad days. they vary.

That S-R5 I find the most comfortable lamp to hold in hand in over 60 yrs of holding the things.
Side sw in leiu of tail. with a short zoom.
It’d be perfect.

How about a modder sorting out one.
With XP-L-hi, and 7135 x 6 or 8 driver.
Running it on mid or Hi.
It wouldn’t get hot? with enough power in beam for normal work
and a Turbo for longer shots.
with good battery life.

Possible??. Wife will buy for anniversary for me.
or are there others of that config.
With hand comfort to match?.

My Option is missing :frowning:
I’d chose the one with the highest CRI value :smiley:

I use cold tints at work (not quite blue but close) and warmer tints off the clock.

Yes, I also would prefer high CRI :slight_smile:

then I also would pick 4000-5700K CCT for focused activities, 3000-4500K CCT for everyday usage, and I would pick 1300-2200K for night time activities if night vision preserving is a requirement :smiley:
(I know, monochrome red maybe does better in this regard, but it is monochrome, and it is sometimes difficult to recognize things just based on red light)

Unfortunately I haven’t seen anything except E27 LED corn bulbs on BG or GB with this latter CCT. However, I remember, Cree has 2200K CCT in their XP-E2 lineup.

I have a light bulb which does 2200K, 3000K, and 5000K. Just flip the switch off/on to change modes.

It’s getting slighly more common; hopefully it’ll be more of a thing in another few years.

Definitely CRI over tint here. I use my lights to illuminate objects other than white walls. I have lights in 4000K, 4500K, 5000K and 5600K that I’m very satisfied with, all over 90 CRI. I’ll be adding one at 3000K soon.

If I had to pick one favorite, it would be 5000K, which is most similar to the midday sun.

4500K - 90CRI
5000K - 90CRI

what are the LEDs?

I find it strange how rarely true warms are offered, especially since it seems to be favored over the CW end (so far over double) by a lot here.