[PART 1] Official BLF GT Group Buy thread. Group buy officially closed! Lights shipping.

i hope i get a shipment notification since 194+168+200
covers the whole first group

Dale…… Was this done with a stock GT or one you have modded??

If modded…. what are mods?

Thank you….

Teacher, I only changed the emitter to a cooler white one taken out of an ArmyTek Barracuda Pro.

Thank you my friend.
Any guess as to how much cooler??

This is pretty doggone amazing!!

A stock GT would not do this would it??

Please add me to the list

Hi Dale! I’m wondering about using the Luminus SST-90 emitter for the GT. I was thinking along the lines of what a de-domed sst90 emitter would compare to as far as throw next to the xhp-35hi? I’ve also looked at the CFT-90, but not sure how one would modify it. I am guessing that the emitter used in the CFT-90 is not the same as the SST-90? Any thoughts on this? Thanks!!!

This covers everyone who paid. 800 orders. Neal is still giving priority to early payers among that 800.

LATEST NEWS

2 orders have been shipped. 362 lights in total.

The first 2 shipments went out by region instead of the exact order in which we paid, for cost reasons and because there were not enough DHL orders to fill a pallet for anywhere except the USA.

The first shipment of lights (168 total) shipped on Dec 27. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 576th person on the paid list that did NOT include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Dec 27 and lights started arriving to customers on Dec 29th.

DHL shipping was very fast and is recommended for all USA buyers in the future.

The second shipment of lights (194 total) shipped January 3rd. This was a pallet going to the USA from the first 740th person on the paid list that DID include batteries. Tracking numbers went out on Jan 3rd. We may see lights arrive on January 5th.

Another 200 GT’s are supposed to ship by the end of the week. No word on where these 200 are going.

The “slowish” shipping is due to the large reflectors being slow to produce. Only about 200 lights are made per week. So we should see 150 to 200 lights ship every week.

Of the first 1000 people on the list that have been able to pay, about 800 have ordered. Hopefully all 800 will get their lights shipped by mid January when the next round of payments should begin for the people who have signed up after 10/23/17.

Initial quality has been fantastic. A handful of people have gotten opaque black switch covers instead of translucent black. Replacement switch covers are being sent on a case by case basis.

The next group (3rd batch) to purchase lights (#1040 and up on the list or who signed up after 10/23/17) will get their emails mid January instead of early January in order to let Neal get caught up with current orders.


BLF GT official support thread


Nvanlaar’s links.

The Millers Original Group Buy List ending on Nov 11 and #1213

Coyotehawk’s Continuation of the Group Buy List, starting Nov 11 and #1214 - Updated Dec 27

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Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for first 555 - Updated Dec 15

Neal’s Paid/Shipping List for #556 to #1038 - Updated Dec 10 or 12.

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M4D M4X: For all people who want to let us know the value that should be declared on the parcels:
please take the BLF GT customs declaration survey.

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M4D M4X: You can buy 8 of the button top Samsung 35E batteries (seem ideal, high mAh and good amps) for $40 when you buy your GT. No sign up required for these.
Battery details are here.
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Video of Drop Test

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Translucent black looks very nice on BF GT. What model is that flashlight?

:slight_smile: When you get right down to it it’s pretty amazing that Giggles could light up a chunk of rock at 1c miles.

Too funny! Yes it was appreciated.

The lit switch looks sort of like an eyeball. Subdued yet visible. Nice touch Lumintop!

ArmyTek only specifies cool white and warm white, with significant lumens difference between the two options. I’m thinking it’s closer to the 6500 though, I have a neutral on the way from Richard at 5000K in the highest power bin he had. Judging by how much light was hitting the shoreline at 1.3 miles, I’d say the stock emitter right out of the box would show light at this range, maybe not as much but it would illuminate the shoreline I’m pretty sure. At 15M I got 1.1025Mcd with the stock emitter (2100M throw), 1.2375Mcd with the cooler white (2224.86M throw).

The Luminus SST-90 has been removed many times in order to gain throw from other emitters. I wouldn’t want it here, but your preference in color and beam profile may well be different than mine. The new CFT90 is much different, it’s a circuit mounted like a COB with a much smaller die surface than the SST-90, so it should indeed have better throw, but be more difficult to center due to it’s offset mount on a square copper mcpcb. Doable,just difficult. And expensive. Both are 3V emitters though, with the new architecture having a lower Vf.

very nice, and im jealous of your camera :stuck_out_tongue:
im still shooting with a 40d, but am actually on the verge of upgrading to the mk 5 you have
anyways just curious, did you do a control shot with no light ?
would of been nice if your bro could of done a control on the magazine pic
to see the actual difference the gt was actually putting on it :+1:
hats off on this shoot.
people that look at the pics have no idea that its hard work getting decent shots, especially when your by yourself , like i am.
and in the single didgets wind chill at times to boot ! :open_mouth:
amazing the lake allowed you to shoot across it.
everytime ive tried spanning water, the uprise of lake funk, always kills the distance
ISO and shutter if you dont mind ?

and btw dale, i see towers in the background, begging to be lit up ! :wink:

The 5D4 was at ISO1600 f/2.8 at 0.6 sec exposure.

There was no moon, no lights, it was extremely dim there where the target was set up, I used an ArmyTek headlamp with a 70.2 in place of the 50. :wink: Without the headlamp, it was hard to see to walk around. The G1X wouldn’t have gotten an image of the camera without extensive use of it’s large sensor. (comparatively, of course the 5D4 is full frame and arguably the best low light camera Canon presently makes)

Yeah, not gonna happen. They are at the Police Station about another mile in the background. :stuck_out_tongue:

I couldn’t give a rat’s patoot about the camera, it’s not the camera but the person behind it that matters. I care about the target. I wish I had one (target).

any reason or advantages using that high of an iso, rather than, a few more seconds exposure, and say 200, or 400 iso ?
ive just always tried to use fairly low iso at night on a tripod, to keep the noise down.
of course 1600 iso on the 5mk, is like 200 to 400 on my 40 d . lol !

LOL !! i gotcha, scratch that idea! :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

yes and no on that…
at nightime, the camera will either make or break you, esp on a shot at a mile or more