Am I the only one who likes bluish LED lights?

[Fallingwater]

I see a lot of people like/want the new warm-tinted flashlights. I'm sure many have very good reason to.

But am I the only one who likes the original colour of white LEDs?

True blue ones are too blue even for me, but bluish-white ones give the beam I like the most.

 

[Hitthespot]

I guess it's all subjective but I seem to lean more twards the warmer tints myself. The funny thing is I really can't judge a light on its own without comparing it to another light. When I received my Bugoutgear drop in I thought it was blue compared to my P2D. When I received my LED Lenser T7 it was blue/purple compared to my Bugoutgear drop in. It is amazing to me all the different shades. My Muyshondt Nautilus looked great to me in the store but when I got home and compared it to other lights it had a major green cast to it. I found if I compared it side by side with other lights it looked kind of sickly, but if it was the first light I shined I liked the tint. It seemed to render objects much more natural. The store would exchange it for me but it became one of my favorite tints.

In my opinion this needs to be the next big improvement in LEDs. LED's have already given us brighter lights in small packages with better run times than has ever been posible before and I thing manufacturers need to give the customer two or three different shades they can pick from. Slightly blue, Neutral white, Slightly Yellow. However, again were back to being subjective. What I think is blue, white, and yellow, you might think is all to dark of a tint?

Bill

 

[spgrk]

I see a lot of people like/want the new warm-tinted flashlights. I'm sure many have very good reason to.

But am I the only one who likes the original colour of white LEDs?

True blue ones are too blue even for me, but bluish-white ones give the beam I like the most.

I prefer neutral to warm (i.e. with some red/yellow) white, followed by white without any obvious tint (my Nitecore DI Q5 WC is like this), followed by white with a bluish tinge, with the worst being white with a greenish tinge. I'm not sure why I hate greenish more than bluish, but it might be a prejudice due to reading reviews referring to "rotten cat urine green" a few years ago.

 

[Badbeams3]

Blue evening dawn :candle:...midnight blues ...bright happy sunny yellow .

I think mostly our eyes just see better with a warmer...closer to sunshine color...just the way we have evolved. Now if we lived on a planet with a blue sun...we probably would see better with a blue tint light

 

[JLEGG]

anything but GREEN

 

[cal..45]

I prefer for most part a straight white tint, but if it is slightly bluish or redish I don't care too much either (just can't stand greenish for whatever reason). however, for my bike I much prefer the yellowish tint of my L1D with rebel100 emitter. I found that this gives me the best colour rendition and helps enhancing to recognize obstacles on trails better at night.


regards, holger

 

[jirik_cz]

I prefer cooler(pure white) tints for indoor usage and warmer tints for outdoor usage

 

[matrixshaman]

Yes you are the only one.

:laughing:

Only recently have I been leaning a bit more toward warmer tints. Before that I liked white as you can get but a bit of blue tint was fine and I don't normally see the big thing many people have about incandescent or warmer tint LED's outdoors and the depth and color thing they take issue with on LED's especially cooler ones. It all just doesn't seem to be that different to me and I've used LED outdoors at night a lot.

 

[torpeau]

anything but GREEN

I agree, but in the olden days our mothers added bluing to the wash water to make our clothes "whiter."

When I see pictures that people take of flashlight beams, I wonder if they realize that different cameras may capture the same color differently. Also, I understand that even our monitors, browsers and OSes can make a difference in what we see.

 

[kramer5150]

Its not my first choice, but theres not much to pick from ATM.

No one makes a low lumen light that meets these criteria:
-White/slightly yellow tint
-Single AA/AAA
-$20
-10-15 Lumens
-near double digit run time
-pure flood, no reflector or optic

So I have learned to accept the slightly blue center spot of Nichia designs, despite their color.

 

[LEDninja]

I'm too old, too used to the yellow tint of 60W & 100W bulbs at night.

Indoors
I find I prefer Lumileds WO, SSC SWO, Cree WD & rebel (unknown) tints. Creamy white.
I can use Lumileds XO, SSC SXO, Cree WC tints. Pure white.
I no longer use Nichia 5mm LED based lights - usually too blue.
I hate white LEDs based on purple (instead of blue) LEDs. Hurts my eyes.
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Do not really like the 'dirty brown' of my neutral warm white Q2 5A. (The_LED_museum tells me it looks pink to him not brown).
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My Civictor V1 has a nasty green tint.
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Do not have any WG, WH led lights.

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Outdoors I do not really have much experience. Live downtown.
I like my TWOJ 3x3W My little Friend on grass.
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I can see the trees a little more clearly (not as much as I expected from the oohs & aahs of the outdoors crowd on CPF) with my Dereelight Q2 5A than with my SSC-P7 or Ultrafire C3 Q5 at the GTA Toronto get together. The Q2 5A makes the beam of the other white LEDs look blue while showing no yellow. (OOPS did not bring along My Little Friend to compare)

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In conclusion:
Indoors & Outdoors In The City I would stay with the normal white tint, slightly warmer ones preferred.
I would consider the Neutral Warm White for hikes in the woods. I think it is more of a specialty tint.

 

[Fallingwater]

I too hate greenish tints, by the way.

 

[Jarl]

To me, my Q25A drop-in is the best for seeing stuff. Before that it was a rebel, though compared to the 5A, the rebel is really green. On it's own, the rebel is still as you'd expect- that is, slightly on the warm side. I don't have any crees that are a warm tint- they all seem to be white or white leaning towards blue.

 

[CM]

Cool tints tend to "flatten" out what you see. It's hard to describe but it seems that I have less depth perception when using cool tints outdoors. I don't know if it's just me but that's what I observe over many years of using LED's. Not to mention the color rendering or lack thereof with cool tints. Maybe the two are related :shrug:

 

[Crenshaw]

prefer warms tints. Slightly pinkish even is alright, as long as its not blue.

Crenshaw

 

[DArklite]

You're not the only one who likes the blue-white tint.
While I prefer the warmer tints for "proper" color rendering and most tasks, there's just something about the bluish-white tint that does it for me, especially when it comes to the throwers with that "arc welder" look which increases the fun factor.
Who knows, maybe it's the impression made on me from 90+% of the alien ships in Hollywood movies that did it, but there's just something about the blue-white throwers that screams "kick-@ss"! :thumbsup:

 

[shadowjk]

So what colour temperature setting do you use on your monitors? I've noticed most people seem to use cool.

 

[PhantomPhoton]

I definitelydon't like blues found in Nichia 5mm LEDs for example.
Noticeable green, blue, indigo in the tint is a big turn off. I'm generally hoping to get something around 5000-6000K but that rarely happens. I don't have an opinion yet of the newer 5A tints and stuff that's closer to 4000K.

 

[woodrow]

I like "pure white" or slightly cool white as well. I do not like the real warm tints... this is sad because the new Fenix AA tank light looks cool to me. I can understand how many people feel (most likely correctly) that warmer colors give better deffinition outdoors, but to me -- cooler leds just look brighter.

 

[sORe-EyEz]

for indoors, tint doesn't really bother me. as long as i can make out what's infront, blue tint is fine.

for outdoors, i prefer yellow. my Gerber LX1 puts out a rather visible green tint but it does well illuminating foliage, so its better than a pale blue.

i think i am rather tint tolerant. as long as its up to task, i am good.