[SALE] High CRI 90+ Nichias (ENDED)

Mee too

My vote goes for the 219B V1 sw40 R9080

I’d be in for 4, and crossing my fingers for D220 bin!

I wonder if the R9080 are just Macadams Step 7 but hitting red Cree area binning (4A, 4D, 5A1, 5A4, 5D1, 5D4)

Lol, maybe you can just ask Nichia for some Cree bins (4A, 4D, 5A1, 5A4, 5D1, 5D4) in Macadams step 7 R9050? :stuck_out_tongue:

I forgot to mention:

The leds of TheOnlyDoc, chouster, BoringlyUnique, MikeC, badhakker, prisma, Mitko, ZFL-M60, Jerommel, cula, maukka and X3 were shipped last wednesday or thursday December 21/22.

I assume that delivery times will suffer from being in the middle of the christmas mail, but I hope that everything will arrive in good order.

I would appreciate it if you report in this thread or via PM when the leds arrive.

Exactly why i wasn’t sure. :wink:

Yes, will post when they have arrived.

Enter the sw45k bin, the only bin hitting “red Cree area binning”…

That’s R9080 B-V1 vs Cree binning

I’d be in for some sw40 as well though. But I find the sw45k a lot more tempting.

Thank you chouster, I wasn’t aware of that graph.

Looks like 219B V1 R9080 sw45 is much better than the rest as its shifted down and pretty much guarantees best tint.

Ok, I will change my vote to sw45!

I think I prefer sw40

Where did you get this information?

Chouster overlayed Cree’s binning chart over Nichia’s. Just like what he did for us in the OP.

Payment sent to Djozz for 10 leds and 5 boards.

Update 161226: The sm453 144AM from Japan already received in DHL Denpasar - Bali. Will be delivered to my place tomorrow.

Can you test one to check for the “Spiegelei”-problem?

I will do that tomorrow when I have them. Don’t worry, I won’t export egg yolks to you guys. :smiley:

Package arrived today. :slight_smile:

Looking forward to the SM453 144AM.

Nice Jerommel, I hope the other packages will arrive well too.

Had time to do a quick mod with the 219C SM353 and I like it an awful lot, my new favorite led. Like the 5000K 219C that has been around for a while, it behaves well in reflector lights.



Could not find the right white balance, the light is warm-ish but not this warm.

Hi Jos,

For your reference……
Shot in 5600K white balance:

Original post: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/43046/15

- Clemence

That looks good clemence, but my (Xperia Z3 compact) phone camera does not let me set a colour temperature for the white balance, just a random choice of 5 standard settings, plus an ‘auto’ setting that sometimes does the right thing but more often not.

Oh wow, that does look nice. I skipped the 353 because I thought it would be too close to the 403 to be worth fooling with, so I went with the 305 instead. Maybe I was wrong. Next time…

I’m still using Xperia V. It’s an ancient phone before the Z era. Often when I don’t have my Olympus EM5 in hand I use camera FV-5 application. Much better control than the sluggish OEM camera application. Sent you the link via Whatsapp

- Clemence