Here’s what the S2200 looks like overriding high beams on a car. Hope this works!
Wow! That is a lot of light coming from that LED.
That’s at 3 amps? What is the max for the LED?
The datasheet for the LED says 3A. The emitter testing posted around here somewhere shows it can be pushed a bit harder.
Argh! They need to get back from their silly vacation and mail me my light!
Delayed gratification, my friend.
DBCstm,thanks for the video it really shows off the power of this light.I really like the new MTG-2 lights and even though I made one,I would buy the s2200 in a minute.In the video,the s2200 seems cooler white.Is this just the camera or is it really that way in real life?
I took the S2200 out of the deep freeze and it was COLD! The outside of the lens literally frosted over, like this:
I wiped it off and the glass was still so cold it wanted to frost back over, but I got this shot (the file name is the actual time so you can see these were just over a minute apart, that was the time spent wiping off the glass repeatedly)
Kind of hard to tell there, but the inside of the glass was clear. The shot shows the orange peel reflector inside, even though the lens was again trying to fog/frost over on the outside. Mind you, it came out of the deep freeze at something like –17.8ºC! This is not quite like the conditions would be on a cold night (or day for that matter) as the ambient air was 26.67ºC with high humidity so it’s not going to have the same effect as colder probably drier air with the heat coming from inside the light.
Hope this helps or at least gives you an idea of what to expect.
When starting a video on the G1X from Canon, the settings are set based on that initial start up. In this case, the initial settings were based on the color temperature of the car headlights which are obviously a more orange tone. In real life, the S2200 tint is gorgeous, slightly warm with good color rendition it’s a very pleasing color, not blue at all. I should have used my 5DMkII with manual settings but being as how my wife is recovering from surgery, I had no one to drive the car while I juggled the camera and light so I did it quick and dirty. Sorry about that.
So why does this light have an op reflector if its meant to be a thrower?
Who said it was meant to be a thrower? Do you really think that's likely to happen, based on a comparison of the die sizes between XML & MTG2, especially with both of them in the same size reflector?
Why not use the reflector that maximizes the strengths of the particular emitter? I think that's what they did with this one. And despite that, it looks like it still throws pretty damn well, it's just not a white laser beam so of course it will get tarred with the 'flooder!' pejorative from people who.. well, anyway.
I would say this is a new category of lights (of which I like) where you use a big LED fro high lumens, in an OP lens, in a big reflector for substantial throw. Sort of a hybrid of both worlds.
The TN31 and S1100 may throw further than the S2200 but I like lights that throw a biga$$ hotspot.
In a given light an XP-G2 on copper at 3A outthrows an XM-L on copper driven at 4A. In larger size lights (>60mm bezel) I’ll take the latter 7 out of 10 times. Same idea applies with XM-L versus MT-G2. I love specialized throwers but almost every time I’ll gladly sacrifice some candela for improved general utility.
That’s good enuff for me. You answered my question fully. And I see your point. Thank you sir.
Another great answer. I’m starting to love some spill with my throw. Thanks again.
As I said somewhere, not sure if it was this thread or one of the other MTG2 threads, the big fat beam can fool you. With everything between you and the target lit up it makes the light reaching the target seem not as bright, as compared to a pencil-thin beam at the same distance. It's the most all-around useful light I have played with to date... if only it could be half the size.
Your killing me. So you like this one a lot better than the S1100? How about a TK75 if you have one of those?
I have a S1100 with a MTG2 transplant so it's using the smooth reflector. I haven't seen a comparison of how much difference the reflectors make with the MTG2, but I'm planning on asking Solarforce when they get back from vacation (3-4 days) if they'll sell just the textured S2200 reflector separate.
Well please let me know. I do know that reflectors prices seem to be crazy from the maufacturers. But it may be worth a shot. I wouldn’t mind getting more flood out of my S1100.
There is no comparison with XML lights, it's just too different in every way I can think of.
I've posted a pic similar to this somewhere else, this is the same thing but with the white balance setting that more closely matches the actual colors. Left is a de-domed cool white XPG2 in a smooth p60 reflector (on high), right is the S1100/MTG2 hybrid (on medium). So don't let anybody tell you the MTG2 can't put out a clean, tight beam. It's not as tight as the XPG2, but that's a high standard to meet for anything, much less an LED with a die area of, what, 12-15 times larger?
:)