Just discovered this nifty little (big?) light! My wife’s birthday is next week, she uses an outdated Crelant headlamp every day, so she will soon be trying out the PL47 with SST-20 emitters in NW.
Hey High CRI folks, can anyone show me what the beam tint looks like from the 95 CRI SST-20? I bought this one and got to thinking about the 4000K, how warm does that appear? Anyone know? Haven’t heard from Fireflies on my order, assume they are out for the weekend…
When I compare the SST20 4000K to my Viltrox L116T light panel, it looks pretty close to the panel’s 3800K setting. But I don’t know how accurate the panel is. It seems to match up with my other lights pretty close to the expected values.
The main reason I’m not sure about color temperatures is because maukka’s measurements are usually about 500K warmer than mine. For example, he measured the ROT66-219B at 4200K, while I measured mine at 4700K. Something there doesn’t add up, and I haven’t figured out what yet.
Anyway, I’m a bad person to ask about warm CCTs. I think everything around 4000K and warmer looks unpleasantly yellow, including the SST20 95CRI 4000K emitters. But a lot of people seem to really like it.
How reliable is a DSLR for accurately measuring White Balance?
If you take a picture of the beam on a pure white wall in complete darkness, and then upload the the raw image into lightroom, do you think the White Balance on auto would be pretty accurate?
I will test this method when I receive my 219b PL47.
I haven’t seen the higher CRI Sammy, only 80 at 5000K. I tend to immediately change warm emitters, they go in the trash normally.
Edit: I got the SST-20’s for the high CRI and because they carried no additional expense. I didn’t want to pay $12 for the XP-L HI’s in addition to the $48 price of the light. I’ll change em if the suck…
Ish. It’s more that I don’t like warm color temperatures. They don’t look white to me, ever. And using them to read or otherwise illuminate things makes my eyes hurt, even at 100 CRI.
As for tint, I have a strong preference for tints on the pink side of the BBL instead of the green side.
So I tend to care more about how LEDs perform at low power than how they perform at full power. Most LEDs get warmer and greener at low power, which are two traits I don’t like. Most of them look a lot better at higher power levels, but that doesn’t really help because that’s not how I use lights. For most of my usage, 1x7135 chip is plenty… and those only make about 120 to 150 lm. Split that between emitters in a triple or quad, and it’s only 30 to 50 lm per emitter. So the emitter’s low-power off-white tint looks pretty severe.