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

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.

I’m about 250th on the list ,no batteries (batteries ordered separetely,and havent had no news since then,even though i’ve sent Neal an email ) and keep waiting …. At least ,i know it won’t take months to get it……

Same as me, let me know if you find someone that can change out the emitter because it’s far too warm for my liking, even in a flooder I wouldn’t go this warm.

Is this the warmest LED that’s even been put in a thrower? I’d have rather waited an extra month or 2 for a proper NW or CW emitter than have the hassle of organising this after the fact.

Justin used to always say “It is what it is” and I feel similarly. I know what I see, I know what my camera sees, have no idea how anyone else interprets it. I’m just freaking stoked the tower shows from so far away! :slight_smile:

I do aim to get the shot from across the street from the camera, the light would be coming in from far to the left, like a quarter mile almost, so there’d be no glare in the air from the light until it was hittting the tower. To me, that’s the only way to really see what’s on the tower, get way outside the beam itself for the picture.

Blue sky today, 64º at the moment, so tonight should provide an easy opportunity to get this split angle shot. Will try, will show what it shows, will share it whatever it is. Can’t say I don’t get on the defensive about my equipment, a lot of research and money went into it’s selection. Everything is fallible at some point, even a $5000 camera set up, so look at it and decide for yourself what you like and don’t like about it. We’ll all come out on some different photon so, it is what it is… :wink:

So what’dya think? About 225 yds to the right of the beam for the camera set up, almost 700 yds from the tower?

Should tell something, yes?