At my favorite place for beamshots, our place on the Potomac in Southern Maryland. I've been wanting to capture the little beast, the Nitecore Tiny Monster (TM11) and thought I'd bring a few friends along for the ride. I'm not good with distance, and I'm too lazy to measure, but I think that the end of the dock is around 100 feet.
All lights are on their highest setting, except with the TM11 I used low/med/high and Turbo. Camera is a Canon 40D with a Sigma 18 – 50 2.8-4.5 lens, zoomed in at 35mm. Camera is on manual, white balanced to 5000k color temp, shutter at 2 seconds and aperture at f/3.2 – ISO 100
(Note - the point of this sequence of shots is to try and establish relative levels of brightness - what you see in the photos is actually notably 'darker' than what my eyes saw. Immediately following this sequence is another sequence that is closer to what the eyes really see.)
UPDATE - I find that a 'video' of the shots in sequence makes it far easier for me to compare. Here is a video of the first sequence - there is a video of the second sequence just before the first photo
Daytime Control Shot
With no further delay....the lights
6V Haiku
Haiku 219 (this was my own mod that you can read about here - if you'd like to)
Haiku 119
Malkoff M61N
Malkoff M61
Malkoff M61 219
Vinh 219 (in a Solarforce host with 1 18650)
Thrunite 1C
Zebralight SC80 (with 1 AW RCR)
Jetbeam TCR1
Niteye EYE10
Elzetta ZFL M60 3 cell (3 Battery Station primaries)
Surefire E2E stock
Fenix E11
Quark AA with 14500
Sunwayman V10R with AW RCR
Nitecore TM11
Lo
Med
Hi
Turbo
Now lets repeat, with everything the same except now the camera is at a bit of a wider angle (to capture more of the spill,) and while the shutter and aperture remain the same, I bumped the ISO to 1000. I think this is much closer to what I actually see.
First the video...
Now the photos
6V Haiku
Haiku 219
Haiku 119
Malkoff M61N
Malkoff M61
Malkoff M61 219
Vinh 219 (in a Solarforce host with 1 18650) Remember - this is about a $50 high CRI light you are looking at!
Thrunite 1 (an amazing little budget light!!)
Zebralight SC80 (with 1 AW RCR)
Jetbeam TCR1 (modded with an orange peel reflector)
Niteye EYE10
Elzetta ZFL M60 3 cell (3 Battery Station primaries)
Surefire E2E stock (had to throw an old incan in there just for fun!!)
Fenix E11 (really? $30 and one AA?)
Quark AA with 14500 - reminds me of why I've always liked this little light
Sunwayman V10R with RCR
Nitecore TM11 (prepare yourself... :naughty
Lo
Med
Hi
Turbo (now this is just nuts...:thumbsup
Folks, let's think about this...many of these lights are under $100. A few in the $100-150 range. The McGizmo's are the higher priced lights, but they are unquestioned as bulletproof lighting tools in beautiful titanium - the "Rolex" of flashlights. Then this crazy TM11 - less than $300 and I thought it would set the trees on fire!
Hope you enjoyed "the show!"
All lights are on their highest setting, except with the TM11 I used low/med/high and Turbo. Camera is a Canon 40D with a Sigma 18 – 50 2.8-4.5 lens, zoomed in at 35mm. Camera is on manual, white balanced to 5000k color temp, shutter at 2 seconds and aperture at f/3.2 – ISO 100
(Note - the point of this sequence of shots is to try and establish relative levels of brightness - what you see in the photos is actually notably 'darker' than what my eyes saw. Immediately following this sequence is another sequence that is closer to what the eyes really see.)
UPDATE - I find that a 'video' of the shots in sequence makes it far easier for me to compare. Here is a video of the first sequence - there is a video of the second sequence just before the first photo
Daytime Control Shot
With no further delay....the lights
6V Haiku
Haiku 219 (this was my own mod that you can read about here - if you'd like to)
Haiku 119
Malkoff M61N
Malkoff M61
Malkoff M61 219
Vinh 219 (in a Solarforce host with 1 18650)
Thrunite 1C
Zebralight SC80 (with 1 AW RCR)
Jetbeam TCR1
Niteye EYE10
Elzetta ZFL M60 3 cell (3 Battery Station primaries)
Surefire E2E stock
Fenix E11
Quark AA with 14500
Sunwayman V10R with AW RCR
Nitecore TM11
Lo
Med
Hi
Turbo
Now lets repeat, with everything the same except now the camera is at a bit of a wider angle (to capture more of the spill,) and while the shutter and aperture remain the same, I bumped the ISO to 1000. I think this is much closer to what I actually see.
First the video...
Now the photos
6V Haiku
Haiku 219
Haiku 119
Malkoff M61N
Malkoff M61
Malkoff M61 219
Vinh 219 (in a Solarforce host with 1 18650) Remember - this is about a $50 high CRI light you are looking at!
Thrunite 1 (an amazing little budget light!!)
Zebralight SC80 (with 1 AW RCR)
Jetbeam TCR1 (modded with an orange peel reflector)
Niteye EYE10
Elzetta ZFL M60 3 cell (3 Battery Station primaries)
Surefire E2E stock (had to throw an old incan in there just for fun!!)
Fenix E11 (really? $30 and one AA?)
Quark AA with 14500 - reminds me of why I've always liked this little light
Sunwayman V10R with RCR
Nitecore TM11 (prepare yourself... :naughty
Lo
Med
Hi
Turbo (now this is just nuts...:thumbsup
Folks, let's think about this...many of these lights are under $100. A few in the $100-150 range. The McGizmo's are the higher priced lights, but they are unquestioned as bulletproof lighting tools in beautiful titanium - the "Rolex" of flashlights. Then this crazy TM11 - less than $300 and I thought it would set the trees on fire!
Hope you enjoyed "the show!"
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Thank you yet again for the great comparative beamshots! The 219's look great, the little RRT-01 and Eye 10 are screamers, and the TM11 is just silly... I like it!
