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Newly Enlightened
Yesterday (at last) I've spent 5 mins with my wife for lux readings.
Dereelight CL1H XP-E Q5 5C - 8400lux with quickly falloff to 8100
Quark 123^2 XP-E Q3 5A - 4400lux
Quark 123^2 tac XP-G Q5 WW - 2200 lux (battery 3.9V, new 17670)
Fenix TK12 XR-E R2 - 11500 lux (tested only to confirm lumens-review.com results)
Conclusion: warm white Quarks are floody light with very slight potential for throw, but this mean, that ww is excellent choice for closework, far better than XP-E neutrals with tight hot spot.
Then, we start to throw beam over the trees 15 meters ahead. Well, nw/ww is something I call "foggy": pines with yellow tint is blurred, low contrast and hard to see details, but overall picture is pleasant, when fenix with daylight temp has excellent contrast picture. This exercise prove me on theory when neutrals are good for close radius and cool white is good for throw, coz contrast vision is hundreds times more sensitive, than color one engaged by yellow-reddish tint.
Dereelight CL1H XP-E Q5 5C - 8400lux with quickly falloff to 8100
Quark 123^2 XP-E Q3 5A - 4400lux
Quark 123^2 tac XP-G Q5 WW - 2200 lux (battery 3.9V, new 17670)
Fenix TK12 XR-E R2 - 11500 lux (tested only to confirm lumens-review.com results)
Conclusion: warm white Quarks are floody light with very slight potential for throw, but this mean, that ww is excellent choice for closework, far better than XP-E neutrals with tight hot spot.
Then, we start to throw beam over the trees 15 meters ahead. Well, nw/ww is something I call "foggy": pines with yellow tint is blurred, low contrast and hard to see details, but overall picture is pleasant, when fenix with daylight temp has excellent contrast picture. This exercise prove me on theory when neutrals are good for close radius and cool white is good for throw, coz contrast vision is hundreds times more sensitive, than color one engaged by yellow-reddish tint.
