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.
I have never claimed to have normal eyes or vision.
Now for an unpopular opinion !
Daylight as terminology is near impossible to pin down, changing temperature, composition, and hue during the day, depending on time, geographic location and weather.
As panacea regarding goals for emitter preferences it proves to be as elusive and illusionary as the word beauty.
Yep. It’s sort of like saying “I’m on a diet.” Uh, yeah, we’re all on a diet of one kind or another. What people fail to say is what they really mean, which is “I’m on a restricted diet.”
“Budget” in a title does imply a very controlled or reduced one. Generally, it’s better to say “low budget” if we’re talking about spending less. But of course, “LowBudgetLightForum” is a mouthful.
Living in a pretty far north I think has colored my idea of what “sunlight” would look like. We get maybe 4 months a year where the sun actually sits high in the sky, for most of fall and all of winter it can be 1pm and look like evening outside especially because of standard time (constant DST NEEDS to happen :weary: )
To me something like 4000-4500K looks a lot more like what I’m used to seeing as “daylight” for a lot of the year, and since its dark so often you come to see incandescent/warm lighting as natural too.