My tint is not bad. Of course my output is on par with my CW Mini as well. There must be a lot of variation in these. My tint seems ātanā to me. Iāll have to get my 3C tint out and compare, but itās my first really āneutralā light.
The space between the head and body is larger on my BLF version, and the etching near the tail and head isnāt as deep. The low is great though! Iāve had my Mini on my keychain, so Iāve used it quite a bit. Now when I turn the new one on I think something is wrong because thereās no blast of light Oh yeah, I get no preflash turning the light on to low, but when I cycle through and get to low a second time there is a preflashā¦ but since I just switched mode from high it doesnāt really matter.
There must be a lot of variation as my CW Mini is a lot brighter than my BLF Mini. Hard to gauge with the different tints but if I had to guess, maybe 20% brighter?
Thanks for the pics and info Foy. I remember when I got my first neutralā¦ it looked really weird to me. I know you already have a warm xm-l drop-in from reading your P60 round-up thread, but I donāt remember if you have other neutrals to compare to? Almost all of my neutrals have a different tint. Depending on which ones I compare side-by-side, the apparent tint can seem very different. i.e. light A looks insert_color1 when compared to light B, but when light A is compared to light C, it looks insert_color2. Is this some kind of optical phenomenon where the eye auto adjusts white balance? Also, could the time of day that you were taking shots make a difference? It looks just before dusk to me. All this to say, I wonder if it would look less green compared to a different light or in different circumstances. Butā¦ maybe Iām just being hopeful that when I get mine that they arenāt too green. Orā¦ maybe itās just that Iāve grown accustomed to the tint on my TK35.
Am I the only one who thinks that it doesnāt look THAT green? The rocks actually look pretty natural to me.
Edit: I guess Iām not the only one. Thanks SashiX for making me feel not so colorblind/crazyā¦
I missed out one these. Kinda makes me wonder if it might have been a good thing though.
Certainly seeing the greeness of the tint and hearing other peoples comments it wouldnāt inspire me to jump onto another BLF custom light using a NW emitter (z8ā¦.)
Well my TF Mini-01 is confirmed brighter than the BLF Mini, but not by much. Probably driven the same, just the tint difference is the reason for the lost lumens. BLF version popped 571 lumens and the 01 blasted out 664 lumens on the same just off the charger TF Flame 16340. It drops quickly, these are just first 10 seconds figures that I give out, not the 30 second ansi crap everyone else does I meanā¦. Iām not going to show the light to someone and cover the light for 30 seconds before I show them how bright it is!
If that tint is green, compared to the WK26 I'd take that tint any day! Just look at how much better and natural the rocks look under the Mini's light compared to the washed out horrible light of the WK26.
I wish Iād picked one up during the group buy. Shame about the apparent tint lottery because it sounds like itād be a nice pocket light. At the very least itās a perfect candidate for an emitter swap (doesfoyhaveanynichiasyet).
Iāve got to admit, looking at the colour rendering on both the wall shot and the ground shot, the mini does look pretty natural to me. Iād find that quite useful compared to the cool white of the xtar, that just whites everything out.
Looks pretty green to meāI donāt like the tint on either of those lights.
Need to find the Goldilocks tint that is ājust rightā between those two
Maybe it looks different in person? I have to say when I first looked at this thread on my work PC with newish HD spec widescreen monitors the tint really did look green. However at home on my crappy old 4:3 monitor running much lower res it looks a lot less greenā¦
The outer part of the beam shot is clearly greenish, IMO (not color blind and Iām using large 1080p monitor) . . like most lights, harder to see tint in real life use vs. wall hunting.
The earlier questions about the GID o-ring at the lens is a good one - I added GID to my 2100 that Erik did and noticed I get a bit of green outer ring on wall shots that was never there before (2X as noticeable since it also narrower beam since ring is fatter than oem). On mine, there is clearly some green reflection from the GID ring. But I donāt notice anything in normal use even though there is some green induced into the beam.
EDIT: The pattern on mine is different, green ring is smoother and slightly inside the outer area of a beam shot. So it may be the tint or different angles.
Actually, I think these pictures show it a little less green than it looks to me in real life. I've got neutrals and I will admit being a late comer on the importance of rendering and I'm also notoriously slow to criticize tint. Call it neutral green if you want but green is what it is. Yes, it was right at dusk and I do agree that the Xtar cool white does wash out the colors, as most CW's do . . . maybe I'll put an IO neutral next to it.
However it compares, I don't like the tint. Wouldn't be the first time I was alone with my opinion. Maybe tint can sometimes be an acquired thing. I'm from Georgia so, perhaps Foy isn't cultured enough for caviar or tint.