Went out tonight and did a few poor beamshots, was only on my phone. managed to hit a reflector on a building almost exactly 2 miles away! it has a small white light on it too - you can’t see the reflector in the photo sadly as the pics are from the beach.
Lovely night for it - I shone it from Henry VIII’s Sandsfoot Castle (the window opposite the door in the photo below to the last light building on the middle section of Portland Breakwater (Portland end) - Google Earth shows it as 1.99 Miles! Had a bit of a burn up with my BLF -TE and it was nearly as far, just way less powerful!
Nice shots Goose!
Can’t wait for my GT
17Track says my packages arrived in The Netherlands!
Woohoo!
It may be your camera but that beam looks like cool white.
I’m really happy that you guys are finally getting your GTs. It is certainly worth the wait imho! Cheers!
Funny you should say that Nev……… it is not in the least bit warm in real life. The one in my BLF-TE (comparison colour) is swapped - it’s an XM-L2 U4 1A as far as I remember.
I wonder if they have put different colours in the GT’s?
Is that the ‘Consignment received at the PostNL Acceptance Centre’ status?
Mine was the same, Royal Mail 48. As you say, everything I’ve had from Gina before has had a customs sticker whereas this didn’t. There was a sticker underneath the RM on, but I don’t think it would have survived me taking the RM one off!
Noted about the retrospective charge mentioned by someone, although I think I’ll be ok.
People really blew the tint out of proportion IMHO.
In real life it should look like a small sun with just a hint of warmth to it when in turbo mode.
Now at low and moon modes it can look warmer but who uses a thrower in low modes?
Hey guys,
I was among the first 555 but i have no email or tracking number or any hint of an arriving GT yet…|
Should i be worried?
That’s good to know, I don’t like warm or nichia tints ,to me they look dull & dim ,I’m not too keen on neutral either , but the GT may be different as it’s got some power behind it which would cancel the dim-dullness out lol.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone will accuse it of being dull or dim, particularly up close lol.
No, there are still about 50 orders not shipped and the last batch that was shipped the tracking numbers were not sent out. Martin has a list that he has been sending to people but we are not sure how accurate it is. It was obviously done in a rush. You can find the link to it in the OP.
I don’t know about blowing the tint out of proportions, but it is certainly the warmest tint I have. I’ve been trying hard to get accustomed to it, I seem to like it better sometimes than others. Maybe my Gt got an emitter on the lower edge of the spectrum. On the plus side I am glad that others are enjoying it. Either way I can always get RMM at mountain to do an emitter swap if I choose to eventually.
What day do you think I should remind you of?
After Neal is back for sure, I figure it will be at least another week before we hear any kind of semi-consistent communication with china.
You just hit on the truth of the matter.
Tint is largely dependent on what you are used to. It is a VERY relative thing as your eyes and brain will grow accustomed to whatever tint you expose it to.
If you look at some CW lights and then turn ont he GT or shine them side by side, then yes, the GT will look warm.
Use it all by itself without anything else biasing your eyes and brain and it looks much more neutral.
I was playing with some tints the other day and it is funny how one minute 4500k can look warm and the next it can look cool all because of what you are comparing it to.
Exact same tracking for me, only a few minutes apart. Don’t know what « uplifted » means, but it sounds good 
From what I understand, it looks like a carrier in Richmond BC will get the parcel and will send it through Canada Post. The tracking # works on the CP website but it’s stuck at « Electronic information submitted by shipper ».
Excuse my stupid question guys.
Is it still possible to order a gt here?
If so, can you explain to me in easy-to-understand english how to do it?
TA you have a point on that for sure. When I got my first q8 it was a lot different than my 5700-6500k lights. I have since the come to really love the 5000k color temp. This is why I am still using the stock 4000k emitter. I really want to leave it stock and I’m using it without other cooler lights around. We don’t get much snow here but we had a rare 5inches last month and the GT was beautiful in the white snow surroundings. It really lit an entire tree line up at a distance of .9 miles. My grandmother actually lives down a hill out of sight next to that tree line and I got her to go out on her front porch and look up at the trees. I turned the gt on turbo and she sucked in a breath and asked where I was. She thought I was close to her house and was amazed when she found out I was on my back deck nearly a mile away. Unbelievable light you guys developed for sure