Here’s another interesting configuration. This is an Osram White Flat, and it gets about 316m throw in the LE. Probably the throwiest Zebralight in the world right now. The details are over on Reddit.
Hello,
I am about to order an sw35, I noticed overall people tend towards either 35 or 45, whereas 40 seems to be not so popular - I remember sobody mentioning some disadvantage some place, but I don’t remember where — I think it was about somebody claiming they felt like it needed a green filter, or that it was slightly lower output, but I don’t really remember. I also remember people saying it was very neutral, and somebody ordering both the 35 and 45 because of not being able to make up their mind (when 40 would be the solution to this). Can anybody explain what’s going on? (It’s not really that important for me if it’s 35 or 40 that I’m going to get, I am just curious.)
In the first post it mentions and shows that the sw40 beam has a greenish tint. The 35 being rosy and the 45 being more of a neutral tint. Don’t know if this changed since then though.
Just to be clear, the photo in the first post is comparing an sw35 and sw45k light to the original XP-L2 SC64c, which was indeed hideously green. In general sw40 should be pleasantly rosy to neutral like most other 219B.
The sw45 does indeed have a nice output, but I’ve found that in real world small light use the warmer sw35 is very nice. Still rosy but the warmer cct is much easier on night-adapted eyes.
I’ve already done a couple 519A lights. I’m still writing up the results, but the M450 sm453 I have are around 4400K and Duv –0.0034 on H1, ~650 lumens turn-on. For reference, 219B sw45k measures around 500 and a stock SC64c LE measures ~760, so it’s a pretty nice option if you prefer your neutral whites a little less rosy.
Sounds good. The lumen jump is nice but I prefer the rosy tints. I’ll wait for more 519A to come out and see how they compare with the 219B 9080 tint wise.
Thanks Bob!