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.
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.
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.
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.
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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“What do you think of High CRI? Feel free to share your application.”
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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.
>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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