Hi again guys!
With kind help of my girlfriend, i made a few beamshots of my flashlights. Shots were taken without tripod, so pictures are a bit "shaky" but i hope you'll get the idea what i tried to film. So, camera settings were locked for all shots, but i don't remember what exactly they were. But i tried to make pictures that look similar to "real life" as much as possible.
There are shown:
Nitecore Extreme R2 (220 lum.) on AW RCR123
Surefire LX2 (200 lum.) on AW LiFe-Po 3.0v RCR
MagCharger with Terralux 300MR (~600 lum.) on 3.5mAh Ni-Mh cell
Stock Magcharger with stock battery
All cells had been charged a few hours before i took the shots.
Let's get to bussines, shall we?
Vineyard cottage 40-45m away (140 feet)
Nitecore Extreme
LX2
Actually the spill of LX2 looks very simmilar to NEX's spill, but i don't know why camera didn't take it right...
Magcharger
Razor-sharp
Magcharger with Terralux TLE-300MR dropin
Now shots taken from 100-110m away (350 feet)
Nitecore Extreme
LX2
Magcharger
Magcharger with Terralux 300MR
Last picture is a bit shaky, but we can see how much light 300MR puts out. However, while stock magcharger's bulb appears very yellow on pictures it looks very dimm(on pics). But it isn't: Overall output is atleast as high as LX2's, maybe ever higher. Stock bulb also throws just a bit more(by a really small margin) compared to 300MR.
Comparing LX2 and Extreme with R2 in it, Surefire kills it when it comes to throw, mine puts out more light to (just enough to see the difference while performing a "ceiling bounce" test). On the other hand, Nitecore has a more defined spill (very uniform from a hotspot to a very edge of the beam) but overall it's spill isn't much brighter than LX2's, which is more like "big hotspot that fades to an edge of the beam"
You can see on pictures, your Magchargers still aren't for recycling:twothumbs Even stock, it is a VERY decent light which can easy compete with newer lights. But with TLE-300MR it becomes a monster! I highly recommed this dropin, i've been using mine more than a year now, with zero problems. Heat managment is very good with a small tweak: I used a thicker o-ring that seals between lens and the head, so that drop-in can easily touch the "switch-tower" where i put a small amount of thermal-grease for CPU's. Heat conductivity is much better now!
Hope you enjoyed my contribution to CPF and i hope i helped someone to decide faster for some future purchases!lovecpf
*I apologise for grammar and other mistakes...:thumbsdow
With kind help of my girlfriend, i made a few beamshots of my flashlights. Shots were taken without tripod, so pictures are a bit "shaky" but i hope you'll get the idea what i tried to film. So, camera settings were locked for all shots, but i don't remember what exactly they were. But i tried to make pictures that look similar to "real life" as much as possible.
There are shown:
Nitecore Extreme R2 (220 lum.) on AW RCR123
Surefire LX2 (200 lum.) on AW LiFe-Po 3.0v RCR
MagCharger with Terralux 300MR (~600 lum.) on 3.5mAh Ni-Mh cell
Stock Magcharger with stock battery
All cells had been charged a few hours before i took the shots.
Let's get to bussines, shall we?
Vineyard cottage 40-45m away (140 feet)
Nitecore Extreme
LX2
Actually the spill of LX2 looks very simmilar to NEX's spill, but i don't know why camera didn't take it right...
Magcharger
Razor-sharp
Magcharger with Terralux TLE-300MR dropin
Now shots taken from 100-110m away (350 feet)
Nitecore Extreme
LX2
Magcharger
Magcharger with Terralux 300MR
Last picture is a bit shaky, but we can see how much light 300MR puts out. However, while stock magcharger's bulb appears very yellow on pictures it looks very dimm(on pics). But it isn't: Overall output is atleast as high as LX2's, maybe ever higher. Stock bulb also throws just a bit more(by a really small margin) compared to 300MR.
Comparing LX2 and Extreme with R2 in it, Surefire kills it when it comes to throw, mine puts out more light to (just enough to see the difference while performing a "ceiling bounce" test). On the other hand, Nitecore has a more defined spill (very uniform from a hotspot to a very edge of the beam) but overall it's spill isn't much brighter than LX2's, which is more like "big hotspot that fades to an edge of the beam"
You can see on pictures, your Magchargers still aren't for recycling:twothumbs Even stock, it is a VERY decent light which can easy compete with newer lights. But with TLE-300MR it becomes a monster! I highly recommed this dropin, i've been using mine more than a year now, with zero problems. Heat managment is very good with a small tweak: I used a thicker o-ring that seals between lens and the head, so that drop-in can easily touch the "switch-tower" where i put a small amount of thermal-grease for CPU's. Heat conductivity is much better now!
Hope you enjoyed my contribution to CPF and i hope i helped someone to decide faster for some future purchases!lovecpf
*I apologise for grammar and other mistakes...:thumbsdow
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