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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This is good to know but how about a thread where you ask questions, we tell you what we value and you answer with what makes sense or doesn’t make sense for Xtar.
From CRI to max outputs to UI to temperature regulation to battery types and more we can give you lots of useful information but by replying to us you will get better answers and better ideas.
We have many suggestions and would be happy to explain them
Given the relatively cheap cost of individual emitters, I’m thinking that one could make a multi-emitter light that features two different kinds of emitters to select from. Such as high CRI and low CRI. Considering the amazing advances achieved in CNC machining, imagine a quad TIR, with an emitter board featuring 8 emitters, and a rotating collar accessible from the head exterior. You rotate one direction to a fixed stop position and one bank of emitters is lined up with the TIR. Rotate in the opposite direction to a fixed stop position where the alternative bank of emitters is lined up with the TIR. You can then have a UI that activates either bank, or both simultaneously. The emitters in line with the TIR project normally, while the emitters askew from the TIR acts as a “mule”, similar to what we’ve seen available from Emisar.