*I suspect that people on BLF overcompensate: if a tint has not the desired rosiness, they have learned to perceive it as greenish
*If compared next to a pink flashlight, it indeed looks green.
*light above the BBL looks uglier in low CRI than in high CRI
One more reason with flashlights in moonlight mode : Purkinje effect
Even if an ideal flashlight has zero tint shift over its different modes, you are going to perceive a tint shift with a particularly low moonlight mode.
Yes, the TIR in the CO1s will likely mix the beam differently than the reflector in the S2+.
Many LED’s, especially in reflectors, have a significant tint difference between the hotspot and the spill, and my experience is this difference gives you a more obvious means of comparison to notice bad tint in part of the beam.
I’d bet if the beam in the S2+ was diffused, the green would be less noticeable even on moonlight.
My experience is the opposite with the 219C. The original 5000K CRI80 is much nicer at similar slightly greenish duvs (~0.0030-0.0040) than the newer CRI90 variants. On a white wall at least.
Hi saypat… I would say it is ’at least’ 600 lumens or a bit better on High.
I see BurningPlayd0h posted some test results & that seems to be about right according to his posted chart.
I can’t get to my ‘Lumen Tube’ at the moment because of some remodeling…. but when I can I’ll measure it & see what I come up with. :+1:
Yeah, the 219C 5000K CRI80 I have is actually pretty okay. It tends to make things look a bit lifeless, but overall it’s reasonably good compared to most LEDs I’ve tried. It doesn’t really look not-white during use, even though a camera tells me it’s greenish.
If it is, the $1 swatchbook has minus green filter material, but really, the xpl version will just be poor cri with no particular greenness, and the sst20 or lh351d versions are going to be between yellow and green when you go hunting white walls and pretty okay otherwise. It should be fine.
This is pretty off-topic, but anyone have any ideas how to make a strip of RGB LEDs work? There’s someone trying to make a fancy flow wand which draws things in the air while it moves, and I haven’t really tried to do anything like that:
About more on-topic stuff though…
If I understand correctly, the optics might be in now… and then Neal is planning to send some lights for sanity testing to make sure nothing is broken. I haven’t heard any details yet though. Hopefully soon?
That’s something I still need to try. It sounds really promising. At least, it’s a good way to make use of those dog farts.
This gets quite tiresome. No, it is green in use as well. Tint with yellow, or green are, for me, not noticeable outside in foliage. However, it is very noticeable in use indoors, or outdoors in a more urban area. So unless you’re in the woods, it is absolutely noticeable.