Now proud owner of a Barnburner!

[TheGreyEminence]

Bought it from a CPF Member in Ireland
First impressions: VERY lightweight....significantly brighter than my PH50.
Looking like brand new.
I absolutely like the adjustable Focus!
Doing a runtime test tomorrow.

I´m REALLY happy!

Regards...

 

[BVH]

A BIGG Congrats! I still have mine from the original group buy and love it. Fired it up last night after not having used it for months and was WOW'd by its brightness.

 

[DM51]

Congratulations! Looking forward to some beamshots, especially as you have a PH50 for comparison...

 

[billhess]

just curious, what did you pay, I'm thinking about selling mine.

 

[Richie086]

Congrats! I can't wait to see this shoot out.

 

[Parker VH]

Any reason they made so few of these lights? No known problems with them? What kind of runtime do they have?

 

[billhess]

I just listed mine for sale;


http://www.cpfmarketplace.com/mp/showthread.php?p=2243235#post2243235

 

[Patriot]

Congratulations! :twothumbs

I'll be looking forward to some beamshots too.

 

[XeRay]

Any reason they made so few of these lights? No known problems with them? What kind of runtime do they have?

We decided it was too much of a light to sell on the open market (general Public). Run time about 1 hour. I don't know about problems, see what others say.

 

[LuxLuthor]

Now that XeRay helped us get a few more backup Philips DL-50 "Fatboy" bulbs, this has been a reliable, workhorse light that has the support of XeVision. It is the brightest of the HID's from the various shootouts that have been done.

A few come up for sale in a year, but mostly because the people need the money, not because there is anything wrong with them. You can check the collection of threads I put together on this light which is in the "Topics of Interest" pinned thread...although it will take you a couple days to read all the posts.

 

[BlueBeam22]

Congratulations on getting your BB! What percentage do you estimate it out throws your AmondoTech 35 watt Illuminator by?

 

[TheGreyEminence]

Ok, now for a bit of laughter....as you all know now, i have three of these superlights...PH 40, PH50 and the BB...worth together aprox. 4000 Euro +...
BUT I HAVE NO SUITABLE DIGITAL CAMERA
I-Phone? forget it! And my 8 year old Sony Cybershot DSC-30 doesn´t cut it also...
As i have learned by watching thousands of beamshots untill today, i would need a camera that does "long time exposure"....1, 2.....up to 5 (?) seconds...My Sony can´t do that...
Summary: I need a recommendation for a easy to use digital photo camera that´s suitable for making beamshots.
Price should be max. of 200 $.

Thank you..

Kind Regards:wave:

 

[TheGreyEminence]

@BlueBeam:

Just compared them both. I think it´s pretty close to 100% brighter.May also depend on how you focus the beam on the BB

And a question to all the other BB Owners (Caution! Might be a stupid one ):
Can i run the Light untill it shuts of itself or do i have to keep an eye on the batt. meter? :thinking::thinking::thinking:

Thanks!

 

[BVH]

I've run min until it shuts off several times. No issues with mine. It's worked flawlessly since new. IIRC, the Lumens ratings are about 2,800 for the N30 and about 8,500 for the BB. More than twice as many. Go to Shootout 4 to see excellent shots of both from multiple cameras. There is no comparison btw the two.

I'm not a camera person at all so I needed something very easy to use that would do time exposures. With Mtbkndad's recomendation, I bought a Canon Powershot S5is. It's a little more than your stated budget but I think the extra is well worth it.

 

[LuxLuthor]

I keep looking at cameras to upgrade to, but all the photos I have posted to date at CPF have been taken with my Canon Powershot S45 which is only a 4 megapixel camera & 3x optical zoom. It does have all the time delays up to 15 seconds.

Honestly, for most photos this older model is more than adequate. To give you some ideas of closeup and distance shots, click on thumbnails I took from these Racoon family photos in our backyard. This was a recent DEFT review shootout. And another Aspheric Mag shootout.

 

[TheGreyEminence]

Thanks LuxLuthor for the Info!I think i look for a used one on E-Crap

Regards...

 

[Patriot]

Love your raccoon pics Lux. Excellent job if that was hand held.


Hey GE, I was just thinking that WiseLED 1500 is worth a few Euros now too!


Regarding the camera, the Powershot series are good solid cameras. Like Lux stated, you don't need something with real high resolution for general photo snapping and posing pics.. My Powershot S2 IS has been my internet workhorse and it's only 5mp.

 

[TheGreyEminence]

Yeah...
Just had a look at wiseled.com...at least i tried! Site is not reachable right now.But in different webshops the Tactical 1500 sells for around 600 Euro....
Glad i already have mine

 

[LuxLuthor]

Love your raccoon pics Lux. Excellent job if that was hand held.

I did those on Auto mode (camera flash enabled) with camera in one hand, and shining flashlight in other. Even had time to go in and get the Mag 625, after which they beat feet.

 

[rockybjr]

If you want to sell the Wiseled Tactical 1500 let me know I'd be very interested. I hear Wisled is in backruptcy at the moment??