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

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 :slight_smile:

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

Sorry Laternenmichi but the group buy has ended here. Once they are available for sale member M4D M4X will be able to get you a discount most likely.
-Joey
Cheers

Oh! that makes me really sad. I followed the whole development of the lamp here in the forum. unfortunately i had an accident at the beginning of November and i was in the hospital for the last 4 months. I am back home now and now this message.
Bad luck!

Keep an eye out in the for sale section, they go up for sale from time to time.

It would be nice to find a gt there.
thx

Exactly!

I wouldn’t be so sure not to be worried, i was in the 2nd batch of “supposed to” lights, paid and all, and i’m not even on Neal’s list, and have been told to “just be patent” and “no worries, you’re on the list”… even after my Early concerns were “passed off”…. & yet no, i’m not. i’ve been ignored or passed off at every mention of MY concerns so don’t be surprised if you are as well.