ohaya
July 10, 2013, 3:37am
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I was actually referring to Canon’s new Rebel SL1. It’s a mini DSLR that would use the lenses you already have and step up the image quality you’re used to with your 400D. No built in lens, you’d use the ones you already have or the kit lens.
The primary thing for taking beamshots is a Manual mode. For taking shots of kids you need a fast lens, be careful of built in zooms as they tend to slow down horribly when zooming and your shutter gets too slow for action.
The Canon G15 might also serve you well, it has a fast lens and does well in low light…also takes macro’s and is considerably cheaper than a G1X.
And now back to the regularly scheduled program….I saw a pretty significant tint shift in my XM-L2 T6 when I de-domed it, but the XM-L U2 didn’t drop so much, wonder why that is? The XM-L was pretty blue to begin with and it’s now just barely on the blue side of white, I really like it. The XM-L2 T6 was a NW to begin with and got considerably warmer, almost to the point that I want to correct it with Lee film but I don’t want to lose the output. How can I go about bringing the orange/yellow T6 back up towards white? Or is that possible?
I actually cut a cube of copper about 3/16” thick to stack the emitter on top of the copper star, reflowed them onto the star together then soldered the leads from underneath. I had to inset the pill deeper into the reflector as well, but now the problematic reflector is no longer close to the solder points and the de-domed XM-L2 sits up inside the reflector for a nice tight beam with a fairly decent spill. I can see a white barn lit up at 610 yards, but what the lux is way over there I have no idea. Looks bright enough over there to read a note by, but I can’t be for sure. Would be interesting to see what cd this light now has.
I’m thinking that the reason for what you saw is that it depends on the phosphor maybe, the thickness, etc. of the phosphor layer?
On the ‘Accidental MTG2 dedoming’ thread (Accidental MTG2 dedoming. ), two people (myself included) noted that when the MT-G2 was dedomed, for us, the color/tint went cooler, rather than warmer, and we were both surprised.