A couple of new lights

[yclo]

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Machined from 6061 aluminium on my tiny lathe, all are CR2 lights with mineral glass lens & o-rings for waterproofing.

Left twisty:
This one was done with the intention of making it as small as possible, so a bare Cree XR-E emitter serves as a flood. The bezel lip is 0.2mm.

Right twisty:
This one was an excercise in knurling, but the knurling tool didn't track properly across the whole head so I cut grooves into it to remove the not so good looking knurls. You can see in the 2nd picture above that the bottom knurl band has a section that was cross-tracked. It uses a Seoul SSC P4 emitter with the McGizmo 17mm reflector.

The one with the orange button:
Battery body was made a while ago, made a new head for it. It uses a bare XR-E emitter for a flood.

-YC

 

[yclo]

Strobist info for those that want to know:

2 x SB600 at 1/32 power with ebay wireless trigger
1 x Vivitar at low power with optical trigger

Super complex lightbox setup:



-YC

 

[nekomane]

Beautiful lights and pics :thumbsup:

 

[datiLED]

Nice! I really like the right twisty. It reminds me of an updated ARC LS. :thumbsup:

 

[flashlight]

Your setup pix show just how tiny the lights you made are! :thumbsup:

Now we need beamshots, runtimes & prices. 😗

 

[ICUDoc]

yclo your lights just keep on getting better. The knurlus interruptus actually looks mighty fine!

 

[McGizmo]

Cool YC!! :thumbsup:

 

[jch79]

Strobist info for those that want to know:

2 x SB600 at 1/32 power with ebay wireless trigger
1 x Vivitar at low power with optical trigger

Super complex lightbox setup:

Yclo,

You gotta love Strobist! I'm an architectural photographer, and David's site is really great on showing how to maximize the potential of a minimal lighting rig. I'm actually traveling to Seattle this weekend to take a workshop taught by Scott Hargis (who is considered one of the masters of the Strobist-style of lighting interiors). I can't wait to attend it, as previously I had mostly done ambient light and/or HDR photography. 🙂

Anyways, back on topic, I DIG the new lights man! It's funny - even with a CR2 sitting right next to them for comparison, I know that I'd still be blown away to see how small it is in person.

Thanks for sharing, as always!!

:thumbsup: john

 

[PhotonFanatic]

yclo,

Good to see you overcoming the problems you had in the beginning with your lathe. Seems as though you've found some solutions to the boring bar/drill holding.

Love that ARC look-a-like. 😀

Thanks for the photos of your photo shoot set-up--very informative. I need to spend some time with Strobist, I can see that. I'll bore them with my questions, rather than you. :devil:

 

[lyrrag]

As stated previously on this thread Great lights, superlative photography. Your attention to detail is obvious as witnessed by your work.

lyrrag

 

[koala]

I'm count myself a fortunate person who have seen the lights a number of times but I didn't get to play with them because we were doing some other serious stuff. I shall leave some comments here.

Firstly, I don't quite like the light with the orange button. It seems way out of proportion and it's kinda awkward to hold. When I pick it up, I find myself grabbing the bezel. However, the bezel looks mighty and a good candidate for a 27 reflector or P7 flood, not too sure about the battery though 😀

The rest of the lights are just beautiful. They look really good in picture and jaw dropping in real life. They seems simple but when you realised how much work was done it's really unjustified. I guess having a small sized lathe turned him into a miniaturist. Yclo, maybe it's time to upsize to a CNC lathe? 😀

 

[Icarus]

Nice! I really like the right twisty. It reminds me of an updated ARC LS. :thumbsup:

+1 :twothumbs

 

[loveit]

These are all really cool lights! That right twisty especially is great! :twothumbs

 

[Norm]

I'm count myself a fortunate person who have seen the lights a number of times

Me too
Great stuff YC.
Cheers Norm

 

[Cydonia]

That twisty on the left is interesting. Direct drive Cree?
Love the simplicity.

And the Strobist thing is crazy... off to read some more about it...

 

[yclo]

Thanks for the comments guys.

The beams will be the same as any other bare Cree and Seoul with McR17. Since both lights are CR2, the runtime will depend on the drive current. I think the ssc is on a GD400 or 500, runtime of just over an hour probably, the cree doesn't have a driver yet but there is space for a board. It can be even shorter if there was no driver, but the Vf of crees are quite high.

Don - It's your fault my carpet has chips stuck in it that my vaccum cleaner can't suck up. :nana:

John - glad at least someone is into strobist also, hope the workshop was fun! Scott Hargis seems like he really knows his stuff.

Fred - I would say that I'm a little bit more familiar with running my lathe, but there are quite a lot of limitations due to the small size. I have the boring bar and big drill sorted out, but still need get/grind a tool that can do a deeper negative battery contact. Grinding on a dremel isn't fun, lucky the anode of a CR2 isn't as deep as a CR123.

koala - 😗