UPDATE 4/7: P60 capable hosts will now be found under the drop-in used and are listed in alphabetical order by their respective manufacturer. So for example, EDC+ X60L will now be found in this thread instead of in the host it was used and vice versa, DBS V2 was moved to pt 3 due to the UltraFire XM-L drop-in used.
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PART 1 (4Sevens - Jetbeam) - this thread
PART 2 (Klarus - Sunwayman)
PART 3 (SureFire - Zebralight)
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Hey guys, I recently upgraded my camera and have been away for a short while working on this massive indoors shots session. The new camera has a wider angle lens thus capturing more of the beam profile. It also has the ability to tweak the custom-white balacing (Blue, Magenta, Green, Amber) thus allowing me to attempt to reproduce as faithful an interpretation of what my eyes see as possible. While this can be done PP (post-processing), I don't always remember exactly what each beam's temperature was so being able to do this on the fly was a huge boon to the process. However, with that said, I'm still learning the in's/out's of the camera and may have over-compensated on the M axis a little for some pics so something to note if a particular shot has too much M hue. Another thing to keep in mind is that the door is an off-white, creamy color and not pure white.
As for the modes, where possible, I've captured all modes except those where it was so low as to not provide a meaningful exposure. For obvious reasons, I only did Max and Min for variable lights (but again only where the Min showed anything in the shot).
There may be shots that look pitch black but upon enlarging it, you can make out the beam even if just barely (at least on my monitor) so I've also embedded links to full size 1280 x 960 pics in case you want to do detailed comparos of the hotspot (this alone took a few hours and I'm pretty sure I caught all of them but do let me know if any links are broken).
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PART 1
Lights highlighted in blue indicate new bounce pics and ones in yellow are new as of 9/25. *Indicates mfg claimed ANSI value, last three columns are measurements taken/calcualted by me. Lights sorted in alphabetical order by mfg. All shots taken on a Panny FZ150 @ ISO-100, custom WB, f/2.8 and fixed shutter speeds of 1/8, 1/40 & 1/80. Distance to door is 5m (16.4ft) away. New as of 5/25: Bounce shots under same conditions but w/shutter speed @ 1/4 and light placed right above camera.
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4Sevens QMini 123 Ti
High
Med
Low
APEX 5T6 (review)
High
Med
Low
Crelant 7G5CS (review)
Max
Min
Crelant 7G9 (review)
High
Med
Low
Crelant V9-T6 (review)
High
Low
Dereelight DBS V2 (see UltraFire 3S XM-L drop-in)
EDC+ X60L drop-in (review)
High
Med
Low
eGear X-Flare Pro Focus Control 400 Headlamp
(review - unfinished)
High (flood)
High (spot)
Med (flood)
Med (spot)
Low (flood)
Low (spot)
Elektro Lumens Big Bruiser (review)
Fenix L0D-CE
High
Med
Low
Fenix LD10 Premium Q5
Turbo
High
Med
Low
Fenix TK21 (review)
Turbo
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Breakthrough BT2 (review coming)
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Breakthrough BT3 (review coming)
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Rook CheckMate (review)
High
Low
ICON Link
High
Low
IKEA Ljusa (given how quickly this light dims, I wound the light between each pic)
JETBeam RRT-0 XR-E R2
L5
L4
L3
L2
JETBeam TCR1
Max
JETBeam TCR2
Max
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PART 1 (4Sevens - Jetbeam) - this thread
PART 2 (Klarus - Sunwayman)
PART 3 (SureFire - Zebralight)
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PART 1 (4Sevens - Jetbeam) - this thread
PART 2 (Klarus - Sunwayman)
PART 3 (SureFire - Zebralight)
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Hey guys, I recently upgraded my camera and have been away for a short while working on this massive indoors shots session. The new camera has a wider angle lens thus capturing more of the beam profile. It also has the ability to tweak the custom-white balacing (Blue, Magenta, Green, Amber) thus allowing me to attempt to reproduce as faithful an interpretation of what my eyes see as possible. While this can be done PP (post-processing), I don't always remember exactly what each beam's temperature was so being able to do this on the fly was a huge boon to the process. However, with that said, I'm still learning the in's/out's of the camera and may have over-compensated on the M axis a little for some pics so something to note if a particular shot has too much M hue. Another thing to keep in mind is that the door is an off-white, creamy color and not pure white.
As for the modes, where possible, I've captured all modes except those where it was so low as to not provide a meaningful exposure. For obvious reasons, I only did Max and Min for variable lights (but again only where the Min showed anything in the shot).
There may be shots that look pitch black but upon enlarging it, you can make out the beam even if just barely (at least on my monitor) so I've also embedded links to full size 1280 x 960 pics in case you want to do detailed comparos of the hotspot (this alone took a few hours and I'm pretty sure I caught all of them but do let me know if any links are broken).
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PART 1
Lights highlighted in blue indicate new bounce pics and ones in yellow are new as of 9/25. *Indicates mfg claimed ANSI value, last three columns are measurements taken/calcualted by me. Lights sorted in alphabetical order by mfg. All shots taken on a Panny FZ150 @ ISO-100, custom WB, f/2.8 and fixed shutter speeds of 1/8, 1/40 & 1/80. Distance to door is 5m (16.4ft) away. New as of 5/25: Bounce shots under same conditions but w/shutter speed @ 1/4 and light placed right above camera.
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4Sevens QMini 123 Ti
High
Med
Low
APEX 5T6 (review)
High
Med
Low
Crelant 7G5CS (review)
Max
Min
Crelant 7G9 (review)
High
Med
Low
Crelant V9-T6 (review)
High
Low
Dereelight DBS V2 (see UltraFire 3S XM-L drop-in)
EDC+ X60L drop-in (review)
High
Med
Low
eGear X-Flare Pro Focus Control 400 Headlamp
(review - unfinished)
High (flood)
High (spot)
Med (flood)
Med (spot)
Low (flood)
Low (spot)
Elektro Lumens Big Bruiser (review)
Fenix L0D-CE
High
Med
Low
Fenix LD10 Premium Q5
Turbo
High
Med
Low
Fenix TK21 (review)
Turbo
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Breakthrough BT2 (review coming)
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Breakthrough BT3 (review coming)
High
Med
Low
FoxFury Rook CheckMate (review)
High
Low
ICON Link
High
Low
IKEA Ljusa (given how quickly this light dims, I wound the light between each pic)
JETBeam RRT-0 XR-E R2
L5
L4
L3
L2
JETBeam TCR1
Max
JETBeam TCR2
Max
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PART 1 (4Sevens - Jetbeam) - this thread
PART 2 (Klarus - Sunwayman)
PART 3 (SureFire - Zebralight)
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