Off Topic: For China it means spiritual awareness, physical and mental healing, hence strength, abundance, red purple brings luck and fame. Purple (ē“«; zĒ) refers to the North Star (Polaris), which in ancient China was called the Ziwei Star, the North Star was in traditional Chinese astrology the abode of the Celestial Emperor. (see also: Purple Forbidden City).
Edit: if possible, please make sure all future FW3A versions ship with latest Unduril as (next to the design) It's The Purple Star of this flashlight :D
The SST-20 in TKās photos looks very green. Iāve never seen one that looks that bad, though they certainly donāt look good next to the 219B sw45k I have in my FW3A.
Tint beamshots are hard. Cameras capture colors differently, automatically post-process colors differently unless the photographer shoots in raw and does it manually, and displays display them differently. When I tried to get beamshots of the Armytek Prime XHP35, which is very rosy according to maukkaās testing, it just looked neutral. The beamshot in maukkaās review looks a little rosy, but doesnāt really capture it.
Anyway, I wouldnāt like SST-20s my eyes see the way TKās camera does, but the FB4s I have donāt look nearly that bad. The FA3 supposedly being offered for the FW3A should be considerably better. I have FD2s on the way, and I have some Lee 801 minus green, which makes FB4 look great. Filters are a lot easier than sourcing emitters with nice tint the way the LED market is going lately.
Wow what a dreadful tint. I like the throw on it but I don't know if I want a different batch 219C or an SST20 that may be 3500k or 4000k. I was trying to choose until I found out that the 219C version does not exist and I cannot add it to my cart. I will take the maybe bad DUV and swap if I need to. Good luck to everyone hope we all get a good one!
We can at least all agree that its relative to the other LEDs. It was not "as green" before, but it is relatively so. I am coping hard because I hope that its a good DUV now. -_-
Now if I order it, it should be here in in about a month. So exciting!
I really donāt think most people who know, forget TLF is equally in on this too. So yeah, as you stated; that would make āTWO comunities ACTIVE for this flashlightā.
But when someone posts pictures (now deleted) with no caption or informarion besidesā¦. ātint choices :heart_eyes: ā ā¦. It is kinda natural to want to know where they came from. Especially since these light are not on the market yet.
Soā¦. Iāll just now figure they came from TLF.
As far as the āone was communicationā you mentionā¦ I have no idea?? But now that I really think about what you said, it does seem BLF gets quite a bit of 2nd & 3rd hand info.
Butā¦ at least we get it. So itās all goodā¦. ā¦ :+1:
TKās SST-20 pictures arenāt that far off from what I experience when I turn on my SST-20 95-CRI lights on lower power settings. They look VERY green.
Installing a Lee minus green filter helps a lotā¦ but the Lee #279 filter Iām using itself has major disadvantages (14% reduction in output, color temp gets noticeably warmer. Not a Zircon filter so excessive output will damage it.).
At lower power settings the green of the SST-20 is instantly noticeable. Indoors and outdoors. And even if you donāt have a less-green light on-hand to compare it to.
It looks great if I turn it up high enough to activate the FETā¦ in other words, 1000+ lumens. It makes an awesome 4000K white light. At the lower levels I actually use though, itās not even close to white.
You mean the green one?
The color samples show olive green, blue, pinkish purple, and white.
It looks like it may be somewhere between āoliveā and āolive drabā, somewhere between the food and the military color.
About the purple one, Iād ideally make it a bit darkerā¦ sort of a candy grape purple or midnight purple. But this pinkish purple is good too.
I hope so too!
I like purple, and I want a moonbeam button.
I hope the logo is okay. I think people were expecting me to put my avatar or āTKā or the button, but that just seems tacky. Iād rather have some sort of simple geometric design, so I made one. āPress here for moonbeamsā
Itās more that Bluzie at TLF is actively engaged in the ongoing FW3A process, and ā¦ Iām trying not to be. Now that itās released, I mostly need to focus on other projects. And maybe a nap.
I completely agree, and Iāll be the first to admit that Iām not overly keen on the type of purple like the one pictured. Weāve already seen lights in thst shade of purple that looks almost like fuchsia (e.g. Astrolux A01 with its horrible next-mode memory). Personally, I prefer the darker tones with a higher blue component such as Cadburyās Purple. Or if we stay with warmer tones, maybe a dark plum / wine red. There are so many shades of purple, so why stick with what is so common? That particular shade seems over-used to me - not just in flashlights but also in other products, which imho makes it look ācheapā. Letās be a bit more adventurous!