Neutral or Warm Flashlight?

[ImGeo]

I'm looking for the best outdoor performance, and want to know if I should get a flashlight with Neutral tint (eg. Q4 5B or Q3 5A), or a warm tint?

Based on your personal opinion, does one render the outdoor better (in terms of clarity--since cool LED's make everything seem pale white).

And extra question: how do warm/neutral LED's compare in terms of visual performance with incandescent.

ps. Q4 5B's are available at flashlight connection for $11.24 shipped.

 

[Sgt. LED]

Q3 5A looks more natural outdoors to me.

 

[Mjolnir]

The neutral tints seem to be around 4000K, which should be fairly warm compared to a "cool white" led. Hopefully my L-mini II Q3 5C will arrive, and if I have time I will try to post some beamshots that show how well it does at color rendition.

 

[kaichu dento]

I like pretty much any emitter in the neutral or warm regions.

 

[Yoda4561]

They fall into what I consider an ideal region between incandescent and cool white LED in terms of color outdoors. Incans tend to give too much of a yellow cast (even the very bright overdriven ones) and cool whites wash out detail. the 3A-5A tints illuminate plants and wildlife in a way that looks "right". As usual though ymmv, and sometimes lights labled as 5A are actualy some random warm white bin, which could give the wrong impression.

 

[Sgt. LED]

That happened to me.

I got 2 Q35A from someone and one of them was very bright with just a hint of warmth that rendered color pretty well while the other one was dimmer and certainly yellow that rendered color very well.

I found a good use for each and am happy with the end results but that's good advice above, 1 LED does not provide the true measure of a particular bin.