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

I am in Sydney and nothing yet.

I am probably getting mine in March as I live in OZ and I stupidly ordered batteries as well!

Who in Australia near Sydney can change my LED if needed?

I was wondering if it’s the blue cloud in front of the lighted object that makes it look as if it’s brighter.
Because the contrast between the tower and the background look similar.
None the less, i was experimenting a bit with the pictures myself, and even after attempting to make the white balance, brightness and contrast the same, the cool white looks brighter than the neutral white.
So i’m not sure what’s going on, because the stills from VoB’s video seem to show a brighter hotspot for the neutral white, along with a rather yellow corona.

Yeah those white-balanced photos do look like a better comparison. Of course its all still just opinion, but I still easily prefer the neutral white. The glare from that blue beam blocks the whole right side of the image. You can’t even see that further row of trees in the background in the cw pic, the treeline between the two power lines, but with the nw all that glare goes away and there’s the trees. Nice comparison.

Dale I’m feeling a bit guilty of asking for those comparison shots. As soon as it became apparent that the cw seemingly shown more light (to me) downrange it became time to call into question your equipment and anything else. Guys just because some people a cooler beam doesn’t necessarily mean our judgement is off. Dale I won’t blame you a bit if you forget all about the beam shots, especially since you make your living as a photographer.

4000k is far from a “warm orange tint”. It may only appear so if you turn it on after your eyes have adjusted to a cool white light source. 4000k is very neutral

I just put in some high CRI 4000K LED bulbs in our kitchen and my gf initially wanted me to replace them because they were “too blue” lol

Well, I made the mistake to assume that my light should be shipped according to the ”the list”. Now I understand that my light will be in my hand earliest in April 2018 and I am among the first 555. If I should have known that the light was backordered due to the batteries I shouldn’t have ordered batteries.

My 2nd GT arrived today

USA, West coast side of the globe

Eh, Dale’s been around. He knows how it goes. I hope he doesn’t think anyone is being combative or anything like that, I certainly don’t mean to be. I think we’ve just had a good discussion is all. I mean we gotta talk about something around here now that lights are shipping… :smiley:

Yea I guess that saves us from the normally scheduled doldrums of waiting for a light to show up!

It is just very hard to reproduce digitally what you see in reality.

I even rather read a description of a tint than seeing a picture of it.

As for brightness reproduction, I assume that digital camera’s see brightness differences when different tints are compared the same as human eyes do. But even here a confirmation would be helpful for me.

Dale, despite my remarks, I really appreciate those beamshots, they are helpful and I would not remotely be able to make them myself! :slight_smile:

So cw is much brighter on target?

I have no batteries. Before April also I do not expect.I’m an :weary: optimist. :smiley:

Well I am an optimist…:).

It’s honestly hard to say unless you had a photo of the tower from outside the glare of the beam.

I have some lights that I can point at something and it appears that they are lighting it up from where i’m standing. I then ask a friend who lives near the place and they tell me they can’t see any difference when it is on.
All I see when I’m doing it is the glare in the air. Sure it’ll reach out a long way but at Xm it’ll just light up the air and appear bright.

Saying that those photos do make it look like more light is on the target with the blue-y tint.

I am in the first 555 (#398 ) and in USA and have not received a tracking number for my first light yet.

Try this handy tool…

April ?!?
What did i miss?
I’m in the first 555 as well, and eagerly waiting!

Nice test, I got score 24, the best is 0 :+1:

Bo4ka yes I think so. Especially the trees and the power lines that are 1.3 or so miles away. And yes I have my light and love it. I just wish I had the technical ability to swap in a different emitter without messing up the entire light.