By all means. My opinion on this is very well informed and can withstand some criticism.
Many BLF members would disagree. It’s mostly numbers that make purchases, sadly. That’s why an extreme floodlight after another has more and more maximum momentary lumens without much actual added real life performance. That’s why throw performance is advertised using the unrealistic and optimistic ANSI scale, and that’s why stated runtimes may not always match with experience in practical use.
BLF projects are not typical commercial products. They don’t have the perceptions or numbers that typically make purchases. They may not be totally practical, and with the GT, there sure isn’t a real need for most who bought it. They still somehow are compatible with the advanced hobbyists’ taste, a lot of the time. And they do have a very good real life performance if there is a practical need and application. Better than the numbers would suggest.
“Whiter” as in “bluer” is not at all everyone’s wish. In commercial products, cooler white gets too much preference just because of the numbers. In throwers the numbers lie because the actual measurement is done close up. In floodlights there at least is some actual benefit with cooler color temperature and whether to prefer warm white is more about preference and/or specific needs.
Cooler is definitely not helpful even going from 4000 to 5000 K when you have a thrower with a practical range in thousands of meters rather than hundreds.
The only time cooler is factually helpful is when we want the highest raw lumens possible, e.g. highest floodlight efficiency, or when we really want harsh light, as in trying to blind someone. Everything else is about preference, environment or other specific applications. In the case there is no lumens advantage or very little, cooler isn’t better.
Honestly? Oh, I saw this video earlier, and my reaction was positive. Color wise, this footage tells more about his camera and cameras in general than the lights. The warmer should not be that yellowish IRL and the cooler should not be very bluish. And comparable CT’s are not, when you have no reference point to another high power light. Both are somewhat neutral.
However, what we can observe is exactly the “stronger” beam of the inferior light, and this speaks for the new version. You don’t want to be losing photons to scattering, and you definitely don’t want to be blinded by a blue beam blocking your line of sight and reflecting back to you from every millimeter of atmosphere. This is not an 18650 EDC light, and there is a bunch of molecules to stare back at you between you and your target, say 1.5 kilometers away.