The Wavien collar is reportedly available again, so I am posting these photos as the Deft X, the aspherical long-thrower of OMG Lumens/saabluster utilizing the 2013 ‘old’ XPG-S2, de-domed LED technology /Wavien collar combination (certified at 1.043Kcd by its modder) and will be compared to the conventional reflectored Mateminco MT35Plus.
Sorry, no beamshots at the moment as the weather is not cooperative, forecast till weekend.
…and now some comparative pics at my usual 293-meter (921 feet) cellphone tower shot: (same Samsung 30Q’s used, transferred from one light to the other)
Ah ok, I was not familiar with the names of those lights. It looks like the MT35 is the ~85mm head with ~500Kcd, and the plus model is the 120mm head with ~1200Kcd?
Yeah, I am actually surprised myself of the result tonight. Previously the Deft X (de-domed XPG-S2) aspheric used to be my King of the Hill since 5 years ago.
These new, large reflectored XHP35 lights has come a long way now, even just in its stock form.
All photos taken using my OnePlus 5T phone, all in “Auto” mode (factory default setting in exposure/aperture/iso/wb, etc.) though it has a “Pro” mode, wherein I can adjust the those parameters.
I appreciate your effort, but you can’t use comparison shots without these parameters fixed. Brightness is all over the place between the shots. In a bad case a 100 lumen light can look brighter than a 1000 lumen light.
Correct, but these shots are not so far off in exposure, if you look at the illumination down the road that is not affected by the beams, it looks fairly the same over both pictures.