I don’t mean ‘does throw effect the tint’, but does the throw affect your preferred tint?
I’ve never been able to pick ‘my go to tint’, but what I like seems to vary with the use/throw of the light.
When I build lights for myself, or make tint recommendations for someone else, this is my preference/recommendation:
Thrower -I think cool white is best suited for a thrower…1A or 2A
Mid-range light -I prefer something ‘low cool’ to ‘high neutral’…3A to a 4D
Floody -from mid neutral all the way down to a 7A3…the more flood, the better the warm white looks.
I’ve built cool white into a floody light and hated it. I’ve built neutral white into a thrower…it wasn’t terrible, but I don’t think I would like a warm thrower.
I was just wondering if others had this ‘variable tint syndrome’.
I am much newer to building lights than you are, by far. But, I have learned one thing so far. I like really warm leds for lights that do not have an intense hot spot. That being said, I am going to put together a C8 pill with an XP-G2 R4 5A that has been de-domed. I really want to see what a warm thrower looks like. I have an S2+ with a 4C and like it, could be a little warmer. I put together a 219b in a P60 and love it! I have also ordered the GB light in 5A and expect I will really like it, a floody pocket rocket. I am also going to order the 3D version after pay day.
It seems to me so far, that in my 2 C8’s that it is easier to discriminate things at a distance with a cooler white light. May just be me. I am trying to acquire odd led tints on a budget to build into my own dropins just to really find a sweet spot for my eyes.
For me a flood is for working close and a warm tint is going to show colour better but with less tonal contrast (think greyscale), which is ok because the colour contrast is there.
For a thrower I want high tonal contrast to see things, forget colour it can’t really be seen <100m so a cold white (not blue though) is best.
Ymmv though 8)
Cheers David
Edit, yes you can see colour at a distance, but have you noticed tree’s up close have hundreds of tones of green yet at a distance you can only see a few tones but can see a lot shades of those tones.
For me it’s other way around. Throwers should be warm white with high R9 value otherwise the only thing you see in a distance is a white spot withoun any ability to discern things (best color vision is in the center of the sight field). Floodier lights can be cooler since it’s said to improve peripheral vision. Now using SST-20 2700k (red-orange tint) thrower in combination with SST-20 3000k (yellow-green tint) semi-flood.