…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.
Edit: I was typing the post below before the post above of member djozz.
I understand what you mean, as I have a been an amateur photographer during the manual, film days, and I am aware that a 100 lumen light can be manipulated “manually” by tweaking the parameters to favor one over the other.
However, when I used the default mode during those beamshot photos, I always compare what I see in the screen of my phone compared to what I see outside the screen and I assure you, they are basically similar as nothing is exaggerated nor subtracted substantially from each other.
Take note at the ‘brightness’ of the houses far on the foreground on each shot and they are basically the same, meaning the default setting did not compensate for the bright spill of the MT35Plus compared to that of the Deft X. Only the spill of the MTPlus made the houses nearer to the camera brighter.
And I should emphasize that the beamshot of the Deft X looks like this because it’s nighttime, and an aspheric light has NO spill.
Thanks for the great comparison. The MT35 Plus lumen advantage can really be seen here despite the similar lux rating. I can’t wait to see a GT or MF04/MT35Plus with the waivien collar and aspheric lense! 3MCD!