Its less in reall life i guess, the photo makes one spot brighter.
What i also tried is put them on moon light mode and walk towards the wall i will see a square(the led) with mine GT, the other GT there is never really a square it always kinda stays a cirlcle. Maybe other people can try this and tell what they see(or picture)
It’s btw in no way any criticism. Both light throw extremly well. Just slight difference in beam profile, but with so much variables its expected that there are some.
I’m going to measure throw of my GT and Nicolaas’ GT somewhere next week, it seems that you and/or your dad are also in or near Amsterdam?, we could make it a 4x GT session then if you are interested.
I would be very intrerested to find out what exactly is causing the difference - and how big the difference is on Djozz’ light meter…….
Provided good whether we could go outside (we have a nice beamshot area at a 5 min drive) and compare our GT’s to some other lights,
like my TN42 and modded Nitecore TM36 Light (dedomed XP G2 S2 with 849Kcd).
I think it’s the reflector. There’s a difference in reflection, my son has almost mirror finish (like it should be), while mine produces a blurry image of everything that reflects.
To my eye it looks like the hotspot itself is about the same size, the difference appears to just be the corona, which is what the different reflector finish would do.
This should not have a very large effect on the actual real world throw of the light, as we have seen even the V1 reflectors can light up a water tower at 1.9 miles away. It mostly just causes the hotspot to be smoothed out.
I saw this with the V1 to V2 reflectors but the real world performance difference was only marginal in my case.
I would also venture to say that a focus issue could be at fault.
Maybe the centeirng ring somehow got on top od the screws and cause it to change the focus? Not likely but only thing I can really think of.
Wow, that’s a little further back from me, but a big difference in size. 8” to 5.5” or 20.5cm to 14cm
It almost makes me think the curvature of the reflector is slightly different. I doubt it’s the finish. My guess would be a different reflector height.