Well, I thought the beam shot photos Taschenlampen made for the Zebralights I ended up getting to be fairly representative. I’ve got the 3D emitter bin in my FW3A and the beam photo doesn’t look unjust to me. Naturally there are some deviations to keep in mind like screen calibration and subject matter. Do you have a different beam shot example of the 7A?
I think he’s saying that a 3000K tint beamshot, using a 5000K color-balance on the camera, isn’t a fair representation of what your eyes see.
When I use the 7A FW3A in a dark room, it looks white. Perhaps a little warmish, but certainly not orange like it does in the photo.
If I use it in the daytime, sure, it looks orange. But that’s because my eyes are expecting somewhere around a 6000K color. But again, it doesn’t look that way at night when it’s the only light source. Our eyes adapt. Photos don’t.
Has anyone done some rough runtime tests for lowest moonlight mode?
What are people thinking it would get? Days, weeks, Zebralight runtimes?
EDIT: I also wanted to add that I posted a while back because I received one with a mis-soldered head spring.
Kudos to Neal and co. for taking care of me. I received a new head that works great!
I’m trying to my head around the SST-20 option. Is the only advantage color rendition, but at the expense of green tint at low levels? I know it will run hotter, not be as bright, and it probably won’t throw farther because it’s not as bright (all vs Cree).
Same here, I got one because it was cheaper & I am planning on changing emitters. I hope I am surprised & will like it, but the things you mentioned make that very unlikely in this light.
Color rendition between a Medium CRI HP-L HI & a Higher CRI SST-20 just does not mean that much to me.
To many trade offs for little or no gain ’to me’. ymmv
Results between the emitters should be the same as for the Emisar D4.
Basically, only SST-20 70 CRI 5000K throws farther.
SST-20 95 CRI 4000K, like that used in the FW3A, is dimmer. Expect the same throw as XPL HI. The light should be high CRI with beautiful R9 (reds really pop), but produces noticeably less light and more heat.