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Finally got to play around real quick with some comparisons between the almighty Sundrop and my standard mule. We already know about the Sundrop's led, and for reference, the regular mule has an SOB driven Q4 cree from the Shoppe.
First off lets look at the differences in the tail design:
As you can see, the Sundrop features a bit more metal around the hindquarters than the standard clickie mule. Feels more finished, and hides the screws a bit more. I'm liking it.
Rear view of the head:
With Don's 3.6v reminder, since he was kind enough to put one together for me that could handle my rechargeables since that's all I use. Many thanks again Don!
Next let's introduce my test model, Chomsky:
(From here on out, each set of shots was taken with identical exposures, and the white balance set to sunlight. Only resized, no color or density corrections. Shot with my Canon G9).
First illuminated with the regular mule
And with the Sundrop:
Due to his stylish RGB attire I figured he'd work out fine as a makeshift CRI test dummy. Better yet he also provides both a white reference as well as a vague skin tone ref.
Here's a little scene I put together with him and some various colored items. Of note would be the makeshift mini color chart, taken off of the screen printed package of a snack I had consumed earlier:
Regular
Sundrop
Something more natural you say? Ok lets try out this geode I had laying around.
First off going head to head against each other in the same shot:
Next we'll look at the fun side:
Regular
Sundrop
Observations:
The Sundrop provides fantastic color rendering compared to the cree based light tested here. I shot a few pictures with other lights, but they all pretty much looked similar to the regular mule, with the exception of a hotspot since they had reflectors.
The colors of the agate inside the geode really popped and held true with the light of the Sundrop.
It's just a beautiful color of light, and while it does look a bit like tungsten light, when I changed the while balance to tungsten it was very blue. So this is a great shade of light.
When I stop by my old job this week I'll try to remember to bring the Sundrop and I'll attempt a test of the color temperature using a minolta colormeter. Hopefully it will give me an accurate reading in kelvin.
In the end, both lights are awesome, and each go about illuminating things just fine. But from here on out, for macro photos, or any led-lit pictures I take, it will be the Sundrop that leads the way.
Hope you enjoyed this, thanks for looking.
To be continued. I've got to find some human test dummies to try this wonderful light on.
First off lets look at the differences in the tail design:
As you can see, the Sundrop features a bit more metal around the hindquarters than the standard clickie mule. Feels more finished, and hides the screws a bit more. I'm liking it.
Rear view of the head:
With Don's 3.6v reminder, since he was kind enough to put one together for me that could handle my rechargeables since that's all I use. Many thanks again Don!
Next let's introduce my test model, Chomsky:
(From here on out, each set of shots was taken with identical exposures, and the white balance set to sunlight. Only resized, no color or density corrections. Shot with my Canon G9).
First illuminated with the regular mule
And with the Sundrop:
Due to his stylish RGB attire I figured he'd work out fine as a makeshift CRI test dummy. Better yet he also provides both a white reference as well as a vague skin tone ref.
Here's a little scene I put together with him and some various colored items. Of note would be the makeshift mini color chart, taken off of the screen printed package of a snack I had consumed earlier:
Regular
Sundrop
Something more natural you say? Ok lets try out this geode I had laying around.
First off going head to head against each other in the same shot:
Next we'll look at the fun side:
Regular
Sundrop
Observations:
The Sundrop provides fantastic color rendering compared to the cree based light tested here. I shot a few pictures with other lights, but they all pretty much looked similar to the regular mule, with the exception of a hotspot since they had reflectors.
The colors of the agate inside the geode really popped and held true with the light of the Sundrop.
It's just a beautiful color of light, and while it does look a bit like tungsten light, when I changed the while balance to tungsten it was very blue. So this is a great shade of light.
When I stop by my old job this week I'll try to remember to bring the Sundrop and I'll attempt a test of the color temperature using a minolta colormeter. Hopefully it will give me an accurate reading in kelvin.
In the end, both lights are awesome, and each go about illuminating things just fine. But from here on out, for macro photos, or any led-lit pictures I take, it will be the Sundrop that leads the way.
Hope you enjoyed this, thanks for looking.
To be continued. I've got to find some human test dummies to try this wonderful light on.
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