Fireflies PL47 Flashlight

Would that be a Halloween special edition?

I would probably pick one up. Any coupons available?

Of course, and lose the glue.

Many manufacturers tantalise us with threaded rings that have an odd number of indentations, so a special tool is required, or lots of ingenuity.

Even then they are sometimes a tease, and really a press-fit. Or glued up. Or threaded backwards.

Instead of simply using some circlip pliers, or the thing that takes the back off a watch with two prongs.

Even number of indents please, no glue, threaded in the usual direction.

Same applies to driver retaining rings.

Mine will be attached to a helmet(for caving) so 5000lumens will not be an issue…

Just discovered this nifty little (big?) light! My wife’s birthday is next week, she uses an outdated Crelant headlamp every day, so she will soon be trying out the PL47 with SST-20 emitters in NW. :smiley:

Thanks for a job well done!

Will there be rattle using 18650?

Hey High CRI folks, can anyone show me what the beam tint looks like from the 95 CRI SST-20? I bought this one and got to thinking about the 4000K, how warm does that appear? Anyone know? Haven’t heard from Fireflies on my order, assume they are out for the weekend…

They said nov 13th…

Didn’t see any mention of that, went to their website and ordered it. No indication it wasn’t ready or in stock.

No mention of release date in the OP, zip about Nov 13 in this thread. Where was this said?

The Fireflies website clearly states this light is in stock, just left the site. Oh well, it is what it is I guess…

When I compare the SST20 4000K to my Viltrox L116T light panel, it looks pretty close to the panel’s 3800K setting. But I don’t know how accurate the panel is. It seems to match up with my other lights pretty close to the expected values.

The main reason I’m not sure about color temperatures is because maukka’s measurements are usually about 500K warmer than mine. For example, he measured the ROT66-219B at 4200K, while I measured mine at 4700K. Something there doesn’t add up, and I haven’t figured out what yet.

Anyway, I’m a bad person to ask about warm CCTs. I think everything around 4000K and warmer looks unpleasantly yellow, including the SST20 95CRI 4000K emitters. But a lot of people seem to really like it.

How reliable is a DSLR for accurately measuring White Balance?
If you take a picture of the beam on a pure white wall in complete darkness, and then upload the the raw image into lightroom, do you think the White Balance on auto would be pretty accurate?

I will test this method when I receive my 219b PL47.

Might depend a lot on the camera, different brands and models may well show different values.

I hear ya TK, and am afraid we won’t like the tint of the 95 CRI 4000K SST-20

@DB Custom, no worries.

TK has mentioned one time that she has a condition which makes her very sensitive to magenta tones.

Basically, if the tint is even a tiny bit above the BBL, it will be amplified.

For example, she doesn’t think the LH351D looks all that good, while I think it looks gorgeous above 1A, right on the BBL. Pure creamy neutral white.

She did mention that she uses her lights mostly at 100lms though, so anything that is not an E21A/219B won’t look good at low levels.

TLDR: The SST-20 and LH351D 90CRI look gorgeous to my eyes ;D

I haven’t seen the higher CRI Sammy, only 80 at 5000K. I tend to immediately change warm emitters, they go in the trash normally.

Edit: I got the SST-20’s for the high CRI and because they carried no additional expense. I didn’t want to pay $12 for the XP-L HI’s in addition to the $48 price of the light. I’ll change em if the suck…

Wait wut?

Don’t you like a smooth creamy 4000k that looks like the afternoon sun?

I love using my BLF Q8 and TK15 outside now because of this.

I don’t know what is going to happen with the PL47 though.

Especially since I have some Sanyo 20700As, and I recently found a Dyson pack with updated cells.

Guess what they are are?

YEESS! Samsung 30Ts!

I totally agree.

I got info outside the blf forum.