Is that on TURBO? If so, It does not seem like it is.
Although my trail shot is in more darkness, look how much more intense my beam is and also the spill/flood is even a bit brighter with only 750 lumens.
I would not think the light pollution with your shot would make that much of a difference.
light trail and illumination of target depends massive on the camera setting I could have a 200 Lumens cheap crap light look like 5000 lumens in total dark forest
just look at the lights on the building those are 30-50W incandescent light bulbs
just keep in mind the end of the house row is over 200m away and unlit
I wonder could it be that your initial 5m measurement should have lower lux reading, but due to daylight and reflection, it measured higher. And you did this 10m measurement in the dark and less reflection, it kind of result in similar result.
as the light has not much spill the indoor readings are not that bad off, with a flooder you have to go outside and use a tripod for the Luxmeter
I just noticed that I had my laser rangefinder set to the bottom to do the distance measurement, so the actual distance was 10.1m
so we get almost 700k, but still those Lux readings are from a cheap meter, so +/-10% possible
you want better beamshots?
get a professional camera , and tripod, like alot of us have, and spend months on end, if not years, learning to use it.
there are so many lense choices to shoot, depending on what you are wanting to achieve for your photo.
then you need to know iso settings, shutter speeds, f stops, white balance, etc, to get a decent pic.
that phone you are using is not going to cut it to get pics like this, trust me.
you want professional pics, get the stuff to do it with , and put in your time.
notice the clarity, and lack of noise
btw, this is the GT , hitting a tower at a mere 700 meters
just getting warmed up :+1: