ledmitter_nli
Flashlight Enthusiast
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Everything else being equal. Forget CRI. In general do you also get the impression that ultra-bright LED lights in the halogen to incandescent like color temperature range just appear to look more extraordinary as tools compared to their cool-white counterparts?
So I got to thinking, cool white LEDs have been around long enough in their various forms to have a reputation. Since cool white LEDs are the most efficiently bright with regards to primary cells, its basically been standard affair for over a decade. From the numerous keychain lights hanging in the cashier lanes to all the ordinary stuff in the store's flashlights section. Cool-white was all that most of us knew. Happen upon a windowed box on the shelf with the words "LED" and "Flashlight" and an assumption of the type of output it exhibits would come mind. Something white, purplish and sterile, right? We may even recall the white with blueish tinged lights used on TV and films. So it's no surprise that it's what we've come to expect as being normal. "Yeah it lights stuff up, looks slightly blue, it's another flashlight, so what?"
After being here and now the wiser we can compare our stock and make a new assumption. I don't know, but to me a compact high performance LED flashlight that looks totally different from cools (like it might be filament based) appears very uncommon, even exotic. It's even more impressive in the sense that neutral-warm lights are more relaxing and natural to observe and be around with. This lends it to being distinctive and striking in its own right, especially when it's high-powered.
Likely a correct observation? or a classic symptom of elitist tint snobbery?
Case and point:
^^^ I love Carclo array optics. The shiny streamers effect is always a nice plus.
So I got to thinking, cool white LEDs have been around long enough in their various forms to have a reputation. Since cool white LEDs are the most efficiently bright with regards to primary cells, its basically been standard affair for over a decade. From the numerous keychain lights hanging in the cashier lanes to all the ordinary stuff in the store's flashlights section. Cool-white was all that most of us knew. Happen upon a windowed box on the shelf with the words "LED" and "Flashlight" and an assumption of the type of output it exhibits would come mind. Something white, purplish and sterile, right? We may even recall the white with blueish tinged lights used on TV and films. So it's no surprise that it's what we've come to expect as being normal. "Yeah it lights stuff up, looks slightly blue, it's another flashlight, so what?"
After being here and now the wiser we can compare our stock and make a new assumption. I don't know, but to me a compact high performance LED flashlight that looks totally different from cools (like it might be filament based) appears very uncommon, even exotic. It's even more impressive in the sense that neutral-warm lights are more relaxing and natural to observe and be around with. This lends it to being distinctive and striking in its own right, especially when it's high-powered.
Likely a correct observation? or a classic symptom of elitist tint snobbery?
Case and point:
^^^ I love Carclo array optics. The shiny streamers effect is always a nice plus.
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