There is only one finish. No clear/raw. Just the darker gray.
Please put me down for 1. Thank You.
Iād like one please. Thank you
>>>LH351D may happen a few weeks after XP-L HI, due to lead time in sourcing parts.
>>>Anodizing is dark grey.
>>>Unanodized bare aluminum might happen later, but this isnāt determined yet. <<<
I am simply saying that I would like to show interest/buy a second FW3A in a finish of raw/clear aluminum if/when available.
I did this with the FireFlies E07. 1st a Grey anodized XP-L Hi 5000K at release.
Then got a clear aluminum (SST-20 4000K Hi CRI) when that finish option came out later.
Okay, but raw/clear aluminum is not part of this group buy.
I send my Proto4 to my friend Andreas for beamshots.
Thank you Andreas for your great work.
Thanks Bluzie and Andreas! It surely shows how the beam looks like, and iām liking it
BTW, that is with a 10508 Carclo, not the originally intended 10511 which will give a different beam with more hotspot, not so wide!
I do like it this way too, though as there are no beam artifacts
Wow, the gray anodization has a bit more blue in it than I realized.
Maybe these pictures were taken under a bright light. (Probably, maybe itās due to a certain temperature of light that adds a blue tint)
Perhaps the blueish tint is most probably the result of lighting (which affect the tint of the gray finish) when the photos were taken.
I have posted this photo elsewhere, and as an example of that effect, to show the change of gray to blueish, of the same light and time of photo-taking ( the right photo is the real gray finish of the Avaritia NA40SE) are the photos below:
More photos from this thread: HERE
Certainly not being the best person to brag about his photographic skills,
but I think that every person involved has shown us a photo with a different color of ano.
And I canāt imagine that LT fills a fresh bath of ano for every copy they send.
Is it possible to send one of the last specimen to a professional photographer, like DBCustom?
Or is it advisable to publish only photoās of the FW3A in the company of well known lights?
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Agreed, thanks tatasal. . :+1:
They donāt do this themselves. Itās outsourced, afaik.
The exact color doesnāt matter to me. They all look good. :partying_face:
Amen!! . :+1: .
yes i agree with others all colors so far looks good.
Regarding emitter options: Iād actually prefer SST-20 over LH351D in this light. In fact, Iāll be installing some regardless. I know that means my vote shouldnāt count for much, but at least consider my reasoning.
Itās true that the SST-20 are dimmer than either the LH351D or the XP-L HI, and almost certainly have worse tint than the XP-L HI. However, letās not get bogged down with comparisons to the XP-L HI since thatās an excellent choice and is getting produced either way. And the SST-20 isnāt going to have significantly worse tint than the LH351D; theyāre both known to have fairly green binning on average if you donāt shop carefully.
The LH351D is a much floodier emitter than theSST-20 (which throws more like the XP-L HI), and in an already-floody 20mm triple TIR itās going to be wasteful. Youāre going to need to run a higher brightness level to light up a particular distance away. The SST-20 is much less efficient in an integrating sphere, but especially in a ramping light you arenāt going to ramp up to the same number of lumens on both options and then complain about how much hotter the SST-20 is getting - youāre going to ramp to the same number of lux on a particular target, because thatās the brightness you can perceive. And the SST-20 will be using less power than the LH351D to get there, not more.
If you care mostly about tint and efficiency, the XP-L HI is still your choice. But if youāre concerned more with CRI (especially R9), in actual use the SST-20 is a great option. Iāve got them in my Emisar D4 and their tight beam makes the light far more useful than the numbers would suggest. And, for a back-to-back comparison, I pulled the SST-20 out of my D4S and installed LH351Dās, because in that larger head they were too focused.
I like the beamshots with the 10508 Carclo a lot. I will mostly use this light to light up thing close distance. So a very evenly floody beam would be nice.
So i hope they can get the LH351D. And i will most likely try to change the optic to a 10508 or something similar.
Hereās a calibrated photo of the FW3A. Used the X-rite colorchecker passport to generate a .dcp color correction profile for the Viltrox LED panel and Panasonic DMC-GM1 mirrorless SLR. Itās not as blue as the previous photo would suggest. Very slight bluish shift on the grey.
Thanks maukka, nice work & pictures!! . .
Of all the 50 shades of grey, this is a particular nice one!
Thanks maukka
+1 awesome stuff :+1: