Simply because most of lights I’m interested in don’t have high CRI version or…. the other features makes high CRI LED not so important.
It’s important to me but, low/no CRI is better than no lights at all.
Pic lit by Maratac AA Cu Rev 5, Nichia (deets unknown, would love to know). I mis-spoke earlier when I said the Nichia in the Reylight Mini was about perfect for me; it has the better beam profile, but the Maratac has better tint (temps are both neutral, but again, deets unknown). The Maratac temp and tint seems really close to the BLF Q8’s to me (XPL HD V6 3D,) but obvs with higher cri.
Because I suspect that the CRI makes very little visible difference. I have tried to replicate the obvious differences in the photographs of hands under different CRI ratings, and in real life, the only thing that makes a noticeable difference is temp, even tint is only significant when white wall hunting. I realise thesr things are subjective, and that cameras bring different factors to the party,but this thread in particular has convinced me that it is not just me, it would take a lot to convince me now that CRI above 70 is worth pursuing.
Perhaps the single most blatant demonstration is my bedroom. The walls are a light cream colour, and the ceiling plain white. None of my high CRI non-neutral lights can illustrate that they are different colours, they look the same.
ALL of my neutral lights clearly show both colours distinctly.
What is the use of high CRI if it cannot show the difference in two colours side by side?
As a point of clarification, I’ve had some fun with pics here, but would agree that my pics at least are pointless in demonstrating anything other than to have a visual. You either see a difference that matters to you in real life or you don’t, no worries either way.
Seriously fellows, for some reason I am subscribed to this thread so I guess it's time to kick ass.
Do you believe CRI makes little or no difference for you? Seriously?
Aim a cheap whatever colour laser (a score of 0 CRI, I believe) at something and see if you can tell me it allows you to discern colours beyond the vicinity of the emitter frequency well. Busted, doesn't it?
We humans are adapted to the main available light sources in our evolutionary timeline: the sun and fires. These sources are spot on the black body locus with perfectly uniform spectral power distributions. Light sources which deviate from this are going to be noticed, the more the harder.
Now I must promptly say that despite leds are completely synthetic light sources, we've come far enough already but still there's way to go.
Of course I can respect what you believe and each one of you can have her/his own reasons, but when I aim a good high-CRI torch at a chosen target with a good range of vivid colours and next I do the same with a dull emitter equipped equivalent torch the difference can be quite noticeable. All my close friends are “converting” to this high-CRI religion and honestly, with little effort from my side.
Cheers my dears :-)
Original post date: Mon, 04/30/2018 - 06:26. Edited for typo fixup.