It’s honestly hard to say unless you had a photo of the tower from outside the glare of the beam.
I have some lights that I can point at something and it appears that they are lighting it up from where i’m standing. I then ask a friend who lives near the place and they tell me they can’t see any difference when it is on.
All I see when I’m doing it is the glare in the air. Sure it’ll reach out a long way but at Xm it’ll just light up the air and appear bright.
Saying that those photos do make it look like more light is on the target with the blue-y tint.
Bo4ka yes I think so. Especially the trees and the power lines that are 1.3 or so miles away. And yes I have my light and love it. I just wish I had the technical ability to swap in a different emitter without messing up the entire light.
I’m about 250th on the list ,no batteries (batteries ordered separetely,and havent had no news since then,even though i’ve sent Neal an email ) and keep waiting …. At least ,i know it won’t take months to get it……
Same as me, let me know if you find someone that can change out the emitter because it’s far too warm for my liking, even in a flooder I wouldn’t go this warm.
Is this the warmest LED that’s even been put in a thrower? I’d have rather waited an extra month or 2 for a proper NW or CW emitter than have the hassle of organising this after the fact.
Justin used to always say “It is what it is” and I feel similarly. I know what I see, I know what my camera sees, have no idea how anyone else interprets it. I’m just freaking stoked the tower shows from so far away!
I do aim to get the shot from across the street from the camera, the light would be coming in from far to the left, like a quarter mile almost, so there’d be no glare in the air from the light until it was hittting the tower. To me, that’s the only way to really see what’s on the tower, get way outside the beam itself for the picture.
Blue sky today, 64º at the moment, so tonight should provide an easy opportunity to get this split angle shot. Will try, will show what it shows, will share it whatever it is. Can’t say I don’t get on the defensive about my equipment, a lot of research and money went into it’s selection. Everything is fallible at some point, even a $5000 camera set up, so look at it and decide for yourself what you like and don’t like about it. We’ll all come out on some different photon so, it is what it is…
I am at 16 but I am 50 so my eyes are not as accurate anymore. In any case this will show how you can detect variations in color temperature better or worse than someone else. One can detect clearly a difference between very cool and very warm lighting. 4000K and 6000K are far apart enough to notice. Also seeing the light side by side will show much more than looking at it on its own.
ChrisC, I was shooting at f/4, as mentioned…ISO1600, f/4.0, 0.5 sec exposure. And I went back to the CR2 images and set the Kelvin at 5700K, which you can do at any time of course.
DxO Mark is an independent testing company that tests sensors and lenses. They are the one’s that state the 5D Mk IV is the best low light camera Canon makes. It bests the 1DX MkII, bests everything in the Canon lineup. There are a couple that do better, by Sony (Nikon uses Sony sensors) but there are area’s those lose to Canon, so there are of course trade-offs.
Given what we are doing here, not even a $40,000 Hasselblad will best this 5D4. Just the way it is. Large file, larger image, yes, better noise handling, no. Possibly higher color rendition, but it’d take a lot more than these images on a monitor to prove it.
Not gonna lie, I got this 5D MkIV just before a wedding on March 11, 2017… got hurt March 25 and had surgery June 21st, it’s just not been a good year. I have little experience with this camera and little memory left for learning it’s use. Pretty beat up, doing what I can as I can, not much else I can do.
Over 500 new posts since I was last on. Whew! I’d be all night getting through them. I don’t know how JasonWW and other team members do it.
My brothers light arrived today. Charging his cells as I write. I eagerly anticipate seeing his reaction when he first sees it. I bet I know what it’ll be.
Giggles has good throw even w/o ramping all the way up. Turbo? I haven’t needed it yet, but it’s a quick way to get instant brightness if one doesn’t want to wait for ramping (It’s not slow). Yet another project hit outside the park for the BLF design team! Thanks folks! I include the admin’ team in on that thank you; the miller, and the folks who later picked up the gauntlet. Lumintop and Neal also deserve a slap on the back.
FWIW, I ran mine for 20 minutes on turbo at normal indoor temp’s and while it got mildly warm no way was it anywhere near a dangerous temp. I suspect Navada or Death Valley in the summer might do it if it’s run during the hot part of the day, outside, in full daylight, for hours.
Beamshots fot throwers must be among the hardest photos you can attempt to take, especially at close to 2 miles, I think people don’t realise the effort it takes to get photos like yours, and videos like VOB’s…
I love the tint. It’s just very slightly warmer than my NW TN42. When lights were available in a NW-WW and in a higher flux bin CW I would usually do the normal thing and get one of each. But, I’ve found over and over that the only ones that I would go after when I wanted to see something was the NW. There is no way that outside of a forum like this that this light gets into first production with a NW. Now if they just made a production 70.2 version to take advantage of all the thermal mass.
