Something to play with tonight, hehe. Nice, but poorly assembled box has a magnet catch. My JAX mini C8 was ordered at the same time so that should be here soon.
If it had a piece of tape on the box instead of the magnet catch, would it be a special edition?
You get both with the SE.
You have no flashlight or what!
Not yet. It was ordered the same day but separate order.
Ah, ok then, you are forgiven 
because every BLF-er would stick flashlight up to that prism first and take a photo to share 
I have other lights but I want complete darkness and shine different lights through a slit. The different tints and CRI values should produce different images.
We are waiting
I can’t get a good rainbow effect. My lights seem to hit the prism at too wide of an angle. The zoomie zoomed in works best and would probably work perfectly if I didn’t modify it to limit the travel. (I hate seeing an LED image obscuring things.) I need to work on this some more. :weary:
To get it to perfectly separate the beam you have to use a point source like a laser, it will never work 100% with any flashlight. You can probably get pretty good results using a small die emitter (like an XP-E2) and a huge aspheric lens but even then it wont be perfect.
Still interested in seeing your results. Depending on the quality of the photo’s your able to take of it you can probably run the free publiclab spectroscope software on it to get spectrograph’s you can atleast compare to eachother.
A laser has a near 0 degree beam so a slot isn’t needed. Other lights need the slot or slots(?). I think I’m getting it figured out but I need more room and will try a second slot to properly narrow the beam.
Sounds like a great idea if it works. So if you hold it in sunlight (just by hand without a slot), does it project a line/bar of split up light?
check out here for how they do it- I believe you can buy a slotted card for about $1.
http://store.publiclab.org/collections/spectrometry
ETA: note I did get some 404’s looking around their site at the spectrum stuff…
Sorry to disappoint but my camera is a probably a POS compared to what most of you have and I’m no photographer. I see a perfectly seamless array of colors and the picture shows no purples, teal and green look like crap and there’s mainly four wide bands. Do I need a special camera with no internal filters? I have a Cybershot DSC-W30. Any suggestions on settings? It’s really bright in person so maybe it’s overwhelming the camera. This was the only picture that didn’t appear white in the middle.
This is sunlight on “pure” white which came out black in mostly full shade. It appeared about 5 inches wide, 8 feet away.
From TIR? 120 degrees from first image. The wall is actually tinted green in “partial” shade.
