Yes, but you still need to tell Lightroom what the true white balance value is. You can choose “Auto” in Lightroom, but that’s no guarantee that it’ll be correct. I’ve been using Lightroom for almost a decade, and I know it’s a crap shoot.
Best way is to place a grey white balance card in your photo and use that to set white balance in Lightroom.
You misunderstood the topic. It’s abut finding out the color temperature of the lantern, not about editing the picture and setting the white balance in the image file.
And finding out the white balance ist accurate with Lightroom.
A greycard isn’t neccesary if you take a defocused picture or blur it afterwards.
The light itself is great. I’ve always wanted an AA based quality lantern. My problem is the 5000-6000k. Mine is definitely not warm, especially compared to the LT1. There no ‘’warm white magical camping mood’’. It works but… meh…
I was among the first 30. I’ll try to take a picture compared to my LT1. It’s definitely not in the 3000K range. I would even be surprised if it in the 4500k range but I have no way to test that.
Beside the LED tint, this little lantern is great. High quality build and a lighted switch running from AA is a huge plus for me.
After seeing this, I did a quick search for more UI info. I found that Zeroair reviewed the CL2 and has lots of info about the UI and other details.
While looking through the data there, I noticed that the efficiency seemed to be really low. So I did some quick calculations, and it worked out to:
55 lm/W on li-ion
10 lm/W on NiMH
Those are both pretty low for LED lights. Especially on NiMH, it’s not much better than an old incandescent bulb.
Then I was curious, so I checked the LT1 since the CL2 was clearly, uh, “inspired” by the LT1:
88 lm/W (LT1)
Not great, but not bad either. Mostly just average.
The CL2 kit comes with four 920 mAh cells, or 3680 mAh total. A single common 18650 35E cell holds 3500 mAh. After factoring in the difference in efficiency, this leads to some interesting runtime comparisons, assuming the same lumen output:
LT1 w/ 1 cell: (or a smaller 1x18650 amc7135-based light, like a Convoy S2 w/ diffuser cap)
LT1 runs 1.5X as long as CL2 w/ 4x14500
LT1 runs 8.4X as long as CL2 w/ 4xNiMH
LT1 w/ 4 cells:
LT1 runs 6X as long as CL2 w/ 4x14500
LT1 runs 33X as long as CL2 w/ 4xNiMH
Normally, a boost driver should be more efficient… but it looks like that’s not the case here. The CL2 in boost mode is an order of magnitude less efficient than a simple linear driver.