Re: Why all the fanfare for XPG or XML
"I haven't been this excited about an led in quite some time. The thought of having an led that is around cct 4500k, good color rendition, and very similar characteristically and physically as an XP-G, the imagination goes wild. Hi-cri at 1.4A, triple, quad hi-cri dropins, malkoffs, etc. the imagination and expectations go wild!
Or so that's the hope.
With the Nichia 219 made available to us led lovers, all of these things could possibly come true. However, we haven't seen any beamshots or output from this led. So in anticipation of the eventual pics and posts, I'll start this thread by requesting any pics of this led that you guys have. Beamshots, white wall, comparisons to hi-cri xpg, nichia 119, led swaps, etc would be awesome.
Who will be the first to post a quad nichia 219 p60 drop-in driven at 5.6A?" <---------
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?336907-Post-your-Nichia-219-4500k-beamshots
"Just got my 4500K Nichia 219s from csshih, dropped one in my V10 ti.
Wow. Just beautiful. Got my work cut out for me re-modding my lights."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3929563&viewfull=1#post3929563
"No distance shots yet.
Here's a shot of an SC600 with stock cool emitter, HDS Basic60 with Nichia219 4500k, and a V10R with Nichia219 4500k.
None of the lights were on 100%, tried to get them balanced for a group shot.
The output from the 219 is really a perfect white to my eye. Adds nothing."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3931958&viewfull=1#post3931958
"What's exciting about this LED is that it's the first I've used that I'd actually call neutral. It has almost no tint - it's like you took the "hard white" tint of a cool LED and softened it just a bit (stripping out the blue without adding a bunch of yellow in it's place). The fact that it does a good job rendering color is almost secondary to that.
There's always been the "well, what
is neutral?" argument - I'd like to see this become the standard for neutral white light. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that future NW emitters will be compared to this one."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3932283&viewfull=1#post3932283
"Nichia 219 high CRI should be a great emitter for your diagnosis use. In real world use, I can distinguish colors better with 219 high CRI than with XPG high CRI."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3945027&viewfull=1#post3945027
"In person the Nichia looked more white than the picture conveys, however, the walls are really that color from 40+ years of airborn coolant and oil. It's a dirty old machine shop. It's as if in person I was seeing the light from the light but the camera captured the color of the wall.
Anyway, the tint of this thing is ruining me, probably mod all my moddable lights with this eventually."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3940006&viewfull=1#post3940006
"The Nichia 219 4500k seems to be the real deal - better color rendition than the High CRI-Cree XPG, yet with a much higher color temperature."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3945227&viewfull=1#post3945227
"I know the XM-L is Neutral, but it isn't nearly as white as the 219. It's not yellow, but doesn't really lean toward green. What is that? Just a little gray?
My neutral XM-L NB drop-in is more white than that, but my Quark X neutral is almost identical, while my Xeno neutral XM-L adds a touch of brown But they are all really close.
Through I never saw it as white, I really liked it until my first 219 showed up..."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3945239&viewfull=1#post3945239
"Have not seen a 219 yet, but the 119 is about as perfect a light source as I've ever seen for critical situations regarding color recognition. I'm sure that I can't be the only one, but my first test for tints is my hand - I know what it's supposed to look like and the 119 delivers daylight color in spades, much as I'm expecting from my first 219, which should be in my hands the next week or so."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3945386&viewfull=1#post3945386
"This is such a great LED, I cant resist installing it into my previously XPG modded lights. This is a sunwayman v10a..."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3953457&viewfull=1#post3953457
"I've just received a couple of Malkoff Modules with the 219 (M61 219 and M61 219LLL) and
I'll reiterate what others have said. I was blown away how white the beam looks. Not blue, not pink, not yellow, just white. It's kind of strange because it has made me aware of how much "color" all my other lights have. I'm getting more output from this than I am from my M61w as well. It's a great emitter, it just needs to be in the right reflector. As seen from the dark ring near the outside of the spill on my Malkoff, it's not a drop in replacement for the XP-G."
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...0k-beamshots&p=3940011&viewfull=1#post3940011
Personal testimony has a lot of weight. It just shuts everybody up.
But don't take my word for it.