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

are all the first #555 light shipped out ?, just to make sure that i didnt miss anything

362 lights have shipped. there was meant to be another shipment of 200 sent out late last week but noone has received any tracking info. maybe today ??

the first post in this thread has all the info known so far.

Just make sure you go out to a deserted field far far away from the city to have your lightsaber battles. But becareful when using it in the city after sunset, it uhh draws a mixture of reactions and not all of them are always positive.

I believe those who take the photo think that is what they have seen, an orange hotspot of GT on white wall together with cool white hotspot.
I believe that’s what they have seen. Else they won’t share something not true to their own eyes.
But it is most likely their brain auto white balance working there.
So i think it is outcome of camera and brain auto white balance. With only one GT hotspot, it is definitely not as orange, maybe slight yellowish.

Ok, an update on the link sharing.

The guy that shared it has apologized and removed all the links.

It also appears that only a few orders were made with his shared links. We are sorting though them now. There were some legit orders made yesterday as well naturally that we are sorting though.

We will cancel all the invalid orders and since he is not sharing the link anymore we should be able to restore the old passwords and keep those active for now.

The plan is to send out the 3rd and final round of PM’s in a few weeks once they have caught up on the current orders.

Probably not, as the 555 group includes a lot of non-US orders and non-DHL orders, and those groups were the first to be shipped.

Guilty LOL

+1 :wink:

I am #1427 on the list for my first light. However, my 2nd light was not added to the list. Please see page 469 post #14052 if you need confirmation on my post. Thx!

Thanks for letting us know. We will look into it…

Thank you sir!

Confirmed. You’re 2nd request was made at #1615 on the list. We are addressing this over PMs as we speak. Thanks for letting us know. My apologies for overlooking your post.

Hmm… well, I am really deathly afraid of dangerous animals peering at me from the bushes afar while I am out in the park walking the dog at night. My dog ain’t afraid, heck he points them out … but me? I am terrified. I hope to light the suckers up at 2000 meters in order to have ample time to run ROTFL… :wink:

…and the lightsaber effect… :smiling_imp:

Thank you again for the fast response in resolving this issue.

Saying that you set the white balance on Auto is not an insult but a fact as per the report of the EXIF of your pictures.

I understand, but a lot of batteries don’t ship here and that is a problem. Only a few sites ship here to asia.

Thanks for adding me to the list again, appreciate it.

I’m glad the facebook post got cleared up, I felt it was misplaced but good intentions.

I started to come on here and ask, last night, what fixed white point would be acceptable.

It was starting to rain, lightning was pounding the Eastern skies, and I rushed it. I kinda have this thing about standing out in the open with an aluminum tripod and a magnesium bodied flashlight while lightning looks for me. Not really into it.

I had planned to take the camera to within a couple of hundred yards of the tower and do a 4K video of the lights playing across it, but the rain…

If the weather permits I will try tonight, will fix Kelvin temp to 5700K and shoot video so the light that hits the tower will show clearly from nearby without other light pollution. I know the guy that lives virtually across the road from the tower. The tower is a couple of hundred yards across the field, but the road is a 60mph road and people have a tendency to zoom by, so I’ll set up in his driveway or in the back of my truck parked in the ditch beside the fence, either way, I’ll once again make the effort and take it all the way this time.

Simple, of course for me to process the pictures and white balance them, but I felt it important to show SOOC jpegs.

For the record, in the real world, with not only my eyes but everyone around me, both of the GT’s I got showed orange on a wall shot. There are variances emitter to emitter without doubt. I am not trying to argue a point, although it may seem that way, but am merely trying to show what 2 GT’s that I have in hand are actually doing.

I didnt want to be the person to say it…
You CAN get better results at any price though. You are very disillusioned if you think your 5D is the pinical of photography equipment. Its very good, very capable but not the best.

  • I too am a canon person. Own a 7D, 70-200 too but I know my limitations.

I have a fully calibrated monitor for editing photos but truth be known I hate it. I prefer my own colours to my eyes but there you go.

You’ll also notice when I commented earlier that I’d lock it to a specific white balance rather than leave it in auto.

Just scrolled back to your comment, if you are planning on fixing the colour temp I will do the same - “will fix Kelvin temp to 5700K”… hell, for my photos I’ll use the same settings as you if you like. I’m not sure if you mentioned it but was you shooting at 2.8 or higher?

I made a quick video that I hope demonstrates why evaluating color temperature on the internet is hard. I hope this is useful to everyone! White Balance is hard and you can’t trust your display devices unless you’ve gone through great pains to make sure everything is matched!