Your practical usages of high CRI flashlights?

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High CRI sells itself if you’ve properly experienced it.

But for those that have not, I would ask them these 2 questions as a retailer.

Are you familiar with the benefits of polarized glasses? What about the benefits of a 4K television? Ok great, well High CRI is like a cross between both of those technologies except for all real life around you. But if you’re the kind of consumer that is happy buying the absolute cheapest TV with the worst image you can find, then a High CRI flashlight may not be right for you. :slight_smile:

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I think you missed my point

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That…or maybe you didn’t actually make the point you thought you did.

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rolling eyes

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These XTar threads seem to be about philosophical discussion. Either XTar likes the conversations or they are are a marketing ploy.

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High CRI light pleased my eyes than the low CRI one.

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This, plus xtars threads are itself marketing, giving the brand visibility with not much effort. I might be mistaken, but he starts topics but never really enters the discussion.

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In all honesty I don’t see it as a problem. Xtar is following the trend of hobbyists, which is the cutting edge and the way forward. The more decent leds that flood the market the better right…? Sure I may not clearly notice the difference myself but I’m sure there are a lot of Muggles out there with better eyesight than me. I say muggles because I’m pretty sure most hobbyists are aware of cri and make their own choices.

I just wanted to comment that it looked like a marketing ploy. If xtar was straight up and said so I wouldn’t have posted.

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Agree, it always bugs me when someone starts a thread and then walks away from it without another comment.

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CRI is 1st factor I consider when buying EDC, second one is regulated output.
If not high CRI and crap driver I don’t bother.
Thrower is a different story, CRI is not cruicial.

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I agree 100% on EDC which is typically a small but powerful light and mainly used for short distances. With throwers, like a C8, they are not EDC and when used for seeing 200 meters downrange CRI is not a factor to me.

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Maybe in other words, when life has got ya down, and yer bored with yer surroundings, CRI your eyes out. You’ll feel better in the morning. :laughing: :beer:

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Perfect world is a flashlight that puts out 300lm/W (no heat) at 95CRI in every colour temperature.
And solid state lithium batteries with capacities several times what we have now and last almost forever.

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. XStarFlashlight has entered the chat
“What do you think of High CRI? Feel free to share your application.”
. XStarFlashlight has exited the chat

Yeah, this is pretty disingenuous. I realize a flashlight maker initiated the discussion, but still. They COULD have engaged some meaningful chat about it, also CRI, TCR, and TM-30. But no… dropped bait, stepped back to the edge, and watched what would unfold.

I would have contributed, but the intention here bothers me.

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>As for high CRI flashlights, do you think how important it is?

Very important. I like to have the highest possible light quality at a given colour temperature. I'm willing to accept some trade-offs for efficiency but ideally I want my flashlight beam to be just light sunlight .. because that's the ultimate goal for a general use flashlight, right?

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You know, I never understood CRI until I read this. Can’t thank you enough.

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Yeah i’m confused too—Is high CRI the turds or the steak…? :innocent:

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I use my Emisar 2000K E21A lights around my house at night and for lights in my office, bathroom, etc. just need to swap batteries out frequently

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Hey, thanks for your kind comments! This is an info-collecting topic. We read these comments. And suggestions will also be collected to our engineers and factory, which will be helpful for our products’ improvement. Thanks again here.

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