Just got my light meter. Disappointed with 7G5 V2.

[Slewflash]

@Ledsmoke

Hi Slewflash and congrats on the meter. It is a wonderful thing to be able to suddenly quantify some aspects of the hobby like this. That said. on to the readings.

Do listen to Pok about the distance.

I am, as you may very well know, quite endeared by the little Jacob A60 that DX sells. But I find that if I do lux measurements on it at 2 meters I get 35 kCd. 4 meters gets me ~50 kCd but 10 meters gets me 55 kCd readings.

That little sucker needs some room to “stretch its legs” so to speak. What happens is that the beam is not focused at the shorter distances. So you need that distance.

Another thought for you.

Since the Crelant gives the brighter ceiling bounce it puts out the most lumens - right?

But if it does that and at the same time has less spill then more of that light must go into the center beam - right?

That should mean that it has more lumens converted to lux by the reflector. Only fault I can find in my ramblings above is that I do not know which light has the tightest/brightest spot.

(If someone who reads this is thinking “What IS the guy on about now?” please correct me. The above observations are my laymans perspective on this issue )

BTW: TY for posting this Slewflash. It is interesting to me to see the measurements people are getting with these lights.

I do love to be able to measure the lux on my lights which is why I bought it. I just want to know everything about the light
The crelant gives a smaller and tighter hotspot see here
Later today I’ll measure the readings again at 10 meters to let them both ‘fully stretch their legs’, hopefully I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

The crelant has brighter ceiling bounce, but smaller spill and hotspot (so I suspect that either the spill or the hotspot has to be brighter).