You have to choose flashlight with a cold, warm or neutral LED, what you choose?

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i’m neutral in this matter

Heheh, most are so it seems. :smiley:

Haha, nice one.
:+1:

+1 btw. Deffinetly neutral.

I wrote with FiTorch , which diode is better:
I say neutral
FiTorch: cold

If there are too many warm / neutral voices, they may do neutral P26R;)

Sigh… I am a little angry at the fact that most of FL manufacturers use CW diodes - ’ for a few lumens more’ in the statistic. Especially in throwers, but also counts for other lights. Cold are good only for blinding others, for illuminating, especially forest/grass, warm is much better.
In thrower… What point is in having 1xxx meter range thrower when a little fog means all I can see is the beam and can’t see illuminated object?.. (ok, maybe for showing off the beam on photos :slight_smile: )

Voting for warm white high CRI ones - 4000L Nichias 219c are my fav (call me a fanboy :slight_smile: ).

I added: Does not matter

I don’t even consider 4000-4300K warm. I consider it “warm neutral”. That’s what I picked, though.

I don’t think light is “warm” until at least 3500K or so. Consider that household lights marketed as “warm white” are 2700K-3000K.

I have a couple of lights that I really like apart from the cold tints. The cold tints really kill me. I won’t buy another light with a cold tint.

Neutral is nice but I really like the 5A tint on my BLF A6 (If this counts as warm)

Ditto. For me, a 4C tint (4300K-4500K) is perfectly neutral, so much so that if it’s the only light in the room, it’ll be pure white in my eyes.

For it to be warm warm white, it’s gotta be around 7A.

Switzerland all the way

Warm for me!

4000 ~ 4300K is more on the low Neutral tint scale. (where 4500 ~ 5000K is the higher neutral tints. Warm White has always been known as the natural candle flame to incandescent tints, usually from 2700K to 3500K range. For flooder flashlights i prefer neutral tints from 4000K to 4500K range, for long range dedicated throwers then i prefer from the 5000K to 6500K range, and for lanterns and area lighting i prefer the warmer tints in the 3000K to 3500K range.

3000K. I’ve tried 3500K, not warm enough.

I prefer 8000K, I’ve tried 6500k, not cool enough.

I also want as cool as possible for taking beamshots.

Gotta have a cool LED if you wanna be a cool kid :slight_smile:

If I had to pick just one? Warm at 3000K, 80+ CRI.

Love 4000k, it’s really close to the sunlight.

5000k, perfect!