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… 
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! 
So cw is much brighter on target?
I have no batteries. Before April also I do not expect.I’m an :weary: optimist.
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!
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… 
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?
DB, were those last shots from the same 1.9 miles? If so, extremely impressive from both emitters.
Edit: Yiu just posted the distance.
I am at 16 but I am 50 so my eyes are not as accurate anymore. In any case this will show how you can detect variations in color temperature better or worse than someone else. One can detect clearly a difference between very cool and very warm lighting. 4000K and 6000K are far apart enough to notice. Also seeing the light side by side will show much more than looking at it on its own.
ChrisC, I was shooting at f/4, as mentioned…ISO1600, f/4.0, 0.5 sec exposure. And I went back to the CR2 images and set the Kelvin at 5700K, which you can do at any time of course.
DxO Mark is an independent testing company that tests sensors and lenses. They are the one’s that state the 5D Mk IV is the best low light camera Canon makes. It bests the 1DX MkII, bests everything in the Canon lineup. There are a couple that do better, by Sony (Nikon uses Sony sensors) but there are area’s those lose to Canon, so there are of course trade-offs.
Given what we are doing here, not even a $40,000 Hasselblad will best this 5D4. Just the way it is. Large file, larger image, yes, better noise handling, no. Possibly higher color rendition, but it’d take a lot more than these images on a monitor to prove it.
Not gonna lie, I got this 5D MkIV just before a wedding on March 11, 2017… got hurt March 25 and had surgery June 21st, it’s just not been a good year. I have little experience with this camera and little memory left for learning it’s use. Pretty beat up, doing what I can as I can, not much else I can do.