POSTING WHILE I'M TYPING SHOULD BE BANNED! Oh sorry, you win by seniority, yeah, and maybe your post is more useful than mine. Ok, I salvage and revise...
If I had spent hundreds of pounds on an led lighting system I would use a filter with it all the time. As it is I use incan so it was only out of curiosity that I tried these, also if I 'need' a new light next year ha ha ha I've been thinking about going led if I find something acceptable, the potential advantage being that I could carry a smaller battery/double my runtime. It would take a pair of MCE or a pair of 3 xpe and one halogen lamp to match my current setup for lumens, i wouldn't want to spend that money and then decide I don't like it.
So perhaps I would want something like son of pipe, look forward to beamshots. I thought pair because fork, one on each side.
Warm white is not an option if you buy from a major bike lights manufacturer, your only option is filters, likewise for anyone going cheap and buying a ready made dx torch or dropin you can't choose warm white apart from one dropin below 200 lumens. So my interest in filters.
As was stated on the thread cited a filter doesn't add it takes away, doesn't make the output 'better' by adding in missing parts of the spectrum but makes just 'less bad' by removing unhelpful parts. My description of what I see would be it is not 'more realistic,' (and with R2 it is not a nice colour either) but suddenly I'm looking at a pavement, a bush, not an led shining at a pavement, an led shining at a bush ie I receive or process information much better with a filter which reduces the blue output. - This is with neutral Q5 and R2, not sure of bins but neutral no doubt. I feel bad that there are people who know a lot about physics and light reading my 'explanation' ha ha ha and I can easily believe that there are better colours than 205, I bought a selection on ebay designed for flash photography.
Toshiba filter may be better but I doubt I would say it matches incan. Depens on what you use the light for.
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Not Lee filters but on the theme of better visibility, no-one picked up on my previous observation when you are wanting to scan the road surface for ditches, bumps, puddles, loose gravel etc which is what I am wanting to do all the time on my road bike a light lower down ie bottow of fork works better than anything else I have tried, and the combination cooler temp (=more efficient) below and warmer (less glare) above seems best. I don't mind repeating myself again in a new post, maybe someone out there will find this useful/correct me, don't worry I won't use all block capitals ha ha ha.
If you're interested in a filter maybe you'll try this, although less advantage off road, it will get caked in mud, and you already have two sources helmet + handlebar.
