For my general purposes, tint rarely makes a difference. If I want a specific tint that’s not currently offered in a light I have or want, I make do with trying out different tints from my Lee Filters Swatch Book. Works well enough for me, but I haven’t tried using them in wet conditions yet.
Even as a bit of a tint snob I can agree with this. It seems very easy for my eyes to adapt to almost any color temp or hue and still tell colors apart fairly well.
The problem is when there is tint shift IMO, that is not only super irritating but can make it hard to distinguish colors when different parts of the beam make them look so different.
The 219B R9080 SW45 is overrated, too rosy, extremely inefficient, and makes everybody wanting the perfect rosy emitter, while something like the E21 is about perfect.
The XHP70.2/XHP 50.2 are not worth it. Cree should just introduce factory dedomed emitters. since these look crap with a dome.
The SST-40 is a POS LED that should be introduced in 5000k CCT.
Convoy/Jaxman lithium-ion lights are the only lights which have been reliable in every way. They have no glaring flaw.
I prefer using credit cards over Paypal. Less fees for the guy/gal working behind.
The 219b sw45, especially in its 9080 form, is more of a High Color Contrast emitter than Hi Cri neutral daylight emitter.
It’s my preferred LED for this reason.
Like copper tinted eyeglasses, it makes things unnatural, but easier for to me to see.
Aging eyeballs need help sometimes, and the magenta-pink (rose) enhancement increases apparent contrast.
Absolutely, unless you have a light with a huge reflector like the GT70 or an Imalent I’d take a light with multiple small emitters any day and have way better beam profile.
“High end” custom flashlights like Okluma, Hanko, Deadwood,and Oveready look amateurish and cheap compared to those from more mainstream manufacturers.
Totally agree the point about the amateurish customs. If I were machining Ti lights I would make my selling point their ability to withstand a nuclear blast, or drop them to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the ocean depths. Or send some to Elon Musk to send them into reentry in the atmosphere. Instead….MORE SKULLS.
If I ask “what is a professional flashlight” the response is not so predictable; the world is on unstable footing.
Some first responders might swear by decades old Maglite tech. Still others might swear by Streamlight. The absolute cutting egde might recommend a Fenix.
The tenderfoots enthusiasts are quick to exclaim how great the Armytek or Thrunite is; others scratch their head thinking “the closest Armytek has been to the Army is they stuck it in the name.”
Some might proclaim nothing short of their $500 HDS will do, as they claim it is a hands down bomber light.
I scratch my head, as I can’t tell if a professional ever had any actual design influence on an Olight, or a Fenix, etc. Any product testing with a police officer? Or paramedic?
Maybe a Police officer needs a 4 hour runtime and a quick charge, a thrower that converts to a multi-angle. An amber strobe.
An enthusiast can afford the collection, can afford to pluck the right tool from the toolbox.
Out in the wild, though, when wind and rain is howling and you have one light, just one, where is the professional swiss army light?
Momentary turbo mode makes a lot of sense for camping and hiking and many other practical uses. I just don’t like it when a flashlight gets so hot on turbo and dims so much to cool down that it becomes dimmer after ramping down from turbo than it would have been had I set it to its brightest sustainable mode and left it there.
Tend to agree with you here. Don’t get me wrong, I totally do understand the point of throwers, for people who need them. I just don’t have a huge need for them in my own life either. What’s the point of being able to shine a spotlight on something 1 km away when the human eye can’t even make out what it’s looking at that far away. 99% of my daily life takes place in the suburbs and even when I head out into the woods to go camping, I am usually in Eastern woodlands under trees these days, so there are no 1 km wide open areas to throw light across to begin with. A powerful searchlight just doesn’t seem that useful to me.
Maybe IRL they are immediately impressive, but certainly in the photo my first impression is they look like plastic toys, garish and glitzy.
Everyone has different tastes, of course, and certainly I am sure the workmanship and effort involved is impressive, but imagine that look in a car, for e.g. It would be laughed at as tasteless by everyone outside very specific niche interest groups.