Do you love your green tints?

[kelmo]

My 1st greenie was a Fenix P1 Cree single stage. That sucker was bright but it was in my opinion "Tommyknocker" green. The small size and big output made me overlook this. That light was a favorite of mine until a close friend really expressed a desire to have this light so I gave it to him. My next greenie was a FM-1 module for my E1e. I still have that one, it really puts out a room filling floody beam with just enough throw to satisfy. Plus I can easily swap out the module for the LA. Then along came the KX2 single stage. At the time I got it SF was still selling them at reasonable prices. A throwy 45 lumens for 6+ hours is still a fantastic output to runtime ratio. My latest is the Aeon. My EDC of choice most of the time. This is my most impressive greenie, a brilliant high and a low that just won't quit on you.

I guess I have been conditioned to ignore the funky tint due to some really outstanding qualities of each light and/or module.

Green, its the new angry blue!

 

[Swedpat]

My Malkoff P4 dropins to Maglite and Fenix TK30 all have a slight green tint. No problem at all; I prefer green tint rather than blue, and often it's not noticable without comparison to other tints.

Regards, Patric

 

[kramer5150]

It doesn't really bother me, although I would prefer 43-5500K

Its the blue/purples that really annoy me.

 

[Jash]

I love the greenish tint of my TK40. It's great for the outdoors. Makes all my blue tint lights look cheap and nasty. The most 'pure' white I have is my P7 mag. It's my favourite led tint, though it doesn't throw anywhere near the TK40 so I only use it to check around the house.

 

[ragweed]

I have two different green tint lights. They are both good to go with me. I use em both weekly for EDC & task lights.

 

[Dan FO]

You have never really experienced green unless you had one of the early Surefire L4's.
That L4 now has a MC-E WH in it.

 

[carrot]

I prefer greenish tints over bluish tints, and even more so over purple tints. But to be honest I couldn't care less for the most part and as long as it looks reasonably white I'm happy. Eyes are good at adjusting to tints and color temps...

 

[swxb12]

I also prefer my greens over blues on any given day. Only really notice my green Cree lights if I compare 'em to my nice Seoul emitters.

 

[MWClint]

I cant stand green tints. it's one of the reasons i havent touched any lights with R2's or xpg's..seems like the common tint is greenish. i'd rather have a
WC bluish tint than a WH green even if it's a bit warmer..tints such as red/
brown/pink/yellow are ok as long as it's not green.

:green: <- even the smilie tag is : green : LOL

 

[recDNA]

I HATE, HATE, HATE green tints! I'd take blue or purple any day over green! My favorite tint is pure white NOT the beloved beige color people here call "neutral white". IMO "neutral white" is white NOT yellowish, brownish beige and CERTAINLY not puke green!

Our eyes must connect to our brains differently. I cannot believe anybody LIKES green! Yuch!

My first and only brand with green tint is Quarks - ALL of them.

 

[defloyd77]

I don't mind green, in fact I will take it any day over purple or blue. Take those green tinted lights outside, compare them to purple or blue tinted lights and you'll soon see wny.

 

[Woods Walker]

I hate squid **** green, angry blue and purple whatever.:thumbsdow

 

[richardcpf]

My 2 quarks are very greenish, and after a time using them i start seeing things blue.

 

[Flying Turtle]

Eyes are good at adjusting to tints and color temps...

I adjusted very quickly to the slight green of my QMini 123. At first my reaction was, "oh no", but when I got off the white wall and stopped comparing it side by side with others the green was forgotten.

Geoff

 

[FloggedSynapse]

I don't mind them. I think the more appropriate word here is 'cast', not tint. A cast is a more subtle color variation. That is I don't mind a green tint as long as it's not too strong. Much preferable to an annoying blue/purple tint IMO.

Seems some of the more efficient bins are now sporting a green tint. My Aeon with an 'R2 Flux bin' LED has a slight green cast, to what is otherwise a nice creamy white. I don't mind it. (Yikes, I see they are up to an S2 bin now!).

Though overall I still prefer a neutral/warm white, especially as found in the luxeon (rebel) LEDs.

 

[jenskh]

For the cold white leds I greatly prefer the slightly green golden tint of the WH leds over the WC tint. The WC tint normally looks white on white walls, but it makes the green colors in nature look far too blue. The WH tint looks slightly green on white walls, but it makes the nature colors look good.

 

[McAllan]

Yeah a slightly green tint isn't so bad after all as many says. Better slightly green than very high temperature blue or purple.

If someone else didn't say it I probably would even have noticed that perhaps my TK40 also has a very slight green tint. But hey I'm not complaining. I :kiss: the tint. So much better than all my other LED lights. Much better color rendition. Especially in the yellow and red range but even many blue shades are somehow better too :thinking: Overall it's currently my best tint so far. Plan on buying some neutral and warm ones in the near future.

 

[FloggedSynapse]

Thought I'd resurrect this topic.

Here's a pic. Three LED lights, all on low power levels. I believe these are all 'constant current' regulated lights, meaning there's a tint shift when driven at drive currents lower than spec. Most of these lights will reach their spec'd tint when driven at a certain current - below that the tint will be different. So these lights appear closer to white when at medium to high power levels. Also, keep in mind the camera is exaggerating the tint(s) a bit. I wanted to emphasize the tint differences.

From left to right. Muyshondt Aeon (Cree LED), Fenix L1D (Luxeon Rebel LED), Fenix L2D (Cree LED). Yeah, this is typical of what you get when you play the LED lottery.

White wall hunting, the L1D (rebel LED, middle spot) has the best white balance, IMO (a bit red). Followed by the L2D (right, a bit blue), then the Aeon (left, clearly green tint). However all these LEDs are close enough to white the eye can adapt to any one of them, and they will appear close to white when used alone. When actually using the light, not white wall hunting, however, things are more interesting. I actually find I prefer the green tint, as things seen under it look a little more natural - less 'ghostly'.

The green tint is definitely preferable to a blue/purple tint. Of course this is a matter of taste. If you don't like the tint of light you've got, send it back or purchase another. Each LED is unique.

 

[JaguarDave-in-Oz]

I prefer the blues and purples to green although green doesn't really bother me that much. The yellowish brown of the "neutral" tints on the other hand, I really detest.

 

[uplite]

this is typical of what you get when you play the LED lottery

Yeah, but the lottery odds are heavily in your favor IF you specify the tint bin and run the LED at its nominal current (e.g. 350mA),

Wouldn't it be nice if the manfacturers tested the tint at 50%, 100%, and 200% of the nominal current, and provided a triple-tint-bin spec? :twothumbs

OK, yeah yeah, first it would be nice to get Vf bins from Cree.

-Jeff