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Here's something I discovered: The MD4 fits perfectly in an Asp side break (I think that's what it's called) scabbard.
 
Thanks to you MrGman and Bigchelis for the vids ... I love the whole real life comparisons of popular flashlights ... I could never get anything out of controlled indoor shots ... they look useless to me in all honesty.
 
bill_n_opus said:
Thanks to you MrGman and Bigchelis for the vids ... I love the whole real life comparisons of popular flashlights ... I could never get anything out of controlled indoor shots ... they look useless to me in all honesty.
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I did not pay bill to say that and his check is not in the mail (what was the address again???).

Seriously your welcome. I have strived to make more useable images, I like to do lots of still photos but uploading them to image shack and linking them in became quite the chore and also for some reason stopped working. A while back.

I think that more flasholics should seriously consider getting some type of posters of people to use to show human size scale and coloring to some degree to give a better idea of what these flashlights can do. Most of us that would ever use a flashlight for something important won't be searching for green brush but someone or someone's lost pet possibly in the green brush or maybe a coyote or mountain lion, deer, or bear. Mostly things with pink through browns versus green.
 
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Thanks a ton for your MD4 video, MrGman. You've just about pushed me over the edge. I am this close to committing to buying one once Gene has them in stock.

Any idea if the Wildcat will get the new CREEs?
 
I will be evaluating new LED's (when they become available) for their suitability.

Also I will be making a limited number to warms available.

Thanks, Gene
 
Just got back from South Lake Tahoe. Can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have been on my honeymoon with Misses Lumiere 🙂naughty: :grin2:). However while we were going for walks in the evening in bear country (we were told that there were 2 that came through the neighborhood everynight looking for food in the trash) I had my Malkoff MD4 Wildcat with me and compared it to some other lights because it was pitch black in some of the areas we were. No streetlights in the woods. We had rented a cabin up near Heavenly ski resort area at low off season rates. It was great. Really got to see the power of this beam lighting up numerous pine trees going back a couple of hundred yards really bright.

I was hoping to tell a story of how I blinded a brown bear and sent him scurrying into the woods, but never actually saw any bears. The light beam was very useful for making sure there was nothing with a bigger appetite than mine lurking about.
 
Gene43 said:
I will be evaluating new LED's (when they become available) for their suitability.

Also I will be making a limited number to warms available.

Thanks, Gene
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Gene had mentioned the possibility about mixing and matching warm and cool LEDs into the same head as an option or custom order. I had mentioned it would be great to have 2 warm and 2 cool LEDs in the same unit diagonally set to give the light a more overall neutral balance tint. What do you guys think.

Cool Warm
Warm Cool

As a fixed option for better color balance without losing too much in total luminosity?
 
That sounds like a good option. Another one could be running four high CRI Seouls at 800mA's each for very good color rendition. Still would have fairly high overall lumen output, and the throw would be good with more of a 3D effect, compared to the cool low CRI LEDs.

Bill
 
MrGman said:
I had mentioned it would be great to have 2 warm and 2 cool LEDs in the same unit diagonally set to give the light a more overall neutral balance tint. What do you guys think.
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Would the objective be color rendering or output? Its been my experience that Gene's warms are actually neutral (fine with me, actual warm is :green🙂. So theoretically, this would be mixing blue with neutral, creating output with less blue.

Sort of reminds of that thing they do with cognac, taking the good stuff (neutral LEDs in this case) and mixing it in with the okay stuff, making a semi premium flavor.
 
I have seen some of the lights that were "neutral" and some that are actually quite "warm" in color tint. If they were truly neutral tint LEDs than simply running 4 of them would be fine. If they are the warm like I have seen in the M60W and MC-E warm, I would like to see a mix of 2 warn and 2 cool to make a nice neutral.
 
This sounds like a great option to me. Having same tint LEDs diagonally opposing would minimise any multi coloured shadows.

The cree 5A tint is a little too warm for my liking so I think that mixing WC and 5A would create the ideal tint while giving greater efficiency and CRI than having all 3A tint. In terms of Cree XR-E, WC's are available in R2 bin while 5A and 3A are only available in Q4. CRI would improve due to covering a wider range of the visible light spectrum.

This is a good compromise between warm and cool and It would make sense that Gene should just make them all this way, but as they say; "A good compromise leaves everybody mad". So maybe just having it as an option would be the way to go.

XP-G version would be nice.


MrGman said:
Gene had mentioned the possibility about mixing and matching warm and cool LEDs into the same head as an option or custom order. I had mentioned it would be great to have 2 warm and 2 cool LEDs in the same unit diagonally set to give the light a more overall neutral balance tint. What do you guys think.

Cool Warm
Warm Cool

As a fixed option for better color balance without losing too much in total luminosity?
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