Long time no post.
It's been... whee... busy. Anyhow, a similar (but different) thread from this one from a while back...
I'm posting a quick blurb about the red/blue/beamshaper filters on my SureFire E2. I did a quick search on the message boards, and it didn't seem like anyone had much to say about them (except that the beamshaper is versatile, which I agree with)
Anyhow, armed with my newly purchased filters, I went to go check out the meteor shower this morning. (11/18/2001)
First, I took some pics with my digicam from about 10-12' against a white wall, and here's what I got...
Normal E2, beamshaper E2, red filter E2, blue filter E2
Once in the field, I was quite disappointed by the fact that the plastic lenses were simply shoved inside the rubber cap. While in my pocket for no more than 10 minutes of walking on *level* terrain, all 3 plastic lenses came out of their rubber housing. This made it a chore to put the filter on, and I was quite worried about losing the lenses. Field transport and installation of the filters is not recommended...! Once they're installed, it's not an issue, though...
The lenses pop off with a nudge of my nose!
But... hey, there's gotta be some good that comes out of this... So I figured I'd mess around and combine the red/blue filter with the beamshaper filter to see what kind of output I'd get on the same white wall, 10-12' away...
beamshaper E2, beamshaper + red filter E2, beamshaper + blue filter E2, green Photon II
Too bad I didn't have a red or blue Photon on me, but I can assure you that even from memory, I can recall its brightness level. And... ...as you can see from how the green Photon stacks up with the E2 + filter + beamshaper, you're basically getting sub-Photon brightness.
Oh well.
It was worth a try... Hehe... kinda pointless... But... ..it was fun.
So, after this kinda-long blurb, the comment I wanted to make is... if combining the filters is useless, why did SureFire make it sooooo easy for the filters to pop out? Why not have them snap in-between two layers of rubber on the rubber cap?
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Disclaimer: Now... I have no idea how to take "proper" pictures... all I know is that the flashlights had new batteries, and these pics are straight off the camera, so whatever "oddity" the pictures may have, at least it's the same oddity across all pictures. You can't use them for reference, but at least you can compare amongst them... I can vouch for the fact that the relative/seeming brightness is accurate.
------edited because I used ezcode instead of UBB code.... LOL!--------
I'm posting a quick blurb about the red/blue/beamshaper filters on my SureFire E2. I did a quick search on the message boards, and it didn't seem like anyone had much to say about them (except that the beamshaper is versatile, which I agree with)
Anyhow, armed with my newly purchased filters, I went to go check out the meteor shower this morning. (11/18/2001)
First, I took some pics with my digicam from about 10-12' against a white wall, and here's what I got...
Normal E2, beamshaper E2, red filter E2, blue filter E2
Once in the field, I was quite disappointed by the fact that the plastic lenses were simply shoved inside the rubber cap. While in my pocket for no more than 10 minutes of walking on *level* terrain, all 3 plastic lenses came out of their rubber housing. This made it a chore to put the filter on, and I was quite worried about losing the lenses. Field transport and installation of the filters is not recommended...! Once they're installed, it's not an issue, though...
The lenses pop off with a nudge of my nose!
But... hey, there's gotta be some good that comes out of this... So I figured I'd mess around and combine the red/blue filter with the beamshaper filter to see what kind of output I'd get on the same white wall, 10-12' away...
beamshaper E2, beamshaper + red filter E2, beamshaper + blue filter E2, green Photon II
Too bad I didn't have a red or blue Photon on me, but I can assure you that even from memory, I can recall its brightness level. And... ...as you can see from how the green Photon stacks up with the E2 + filter + beamshaper, you're basically getting sub-Photon brightness.
Oh well.
So, after this kinda-long blurb, the comment I wanted to make is... if combining the filters is useless, why did SureFire make it sooooo easy for the filters to pop out? Why not have them snap in-between two layers of rubber on the rubber cap?
*******
Disclaimer: Now... I have no idea how to take "proper" pictures... all I know is that the flashlights had new batteries, and these pics are straight off the camera, so whatever "oddity" the pictures may have, at least it's the same oddity across all pictures. You can't use them for reference, but at least you can compare amongst them... I can vouch for the fact that the relative/seeming brightness is accurate.
------edited because I used ezcode instead of UBB code.... LOL!--------
