Beam Shot of S20 Baton in comparison to......

The picture is blurred but you can see how green the tint on the Olight S20 Baton is. I'm appalled. The lights from top left clockwise are Jetbeam II IBIS (Q5); Deerelight C2H XPG; Olight S20 Baton and Fenix PD30 (R4).
I hope this works. Since the S10 is just about the same I didn't include it. Sorry for the quality but the tint is clear. All are CW and on maximum setting.

My Olight i1 XMLT6 is the same green. It's a great little EDC light, but it's tint is just too green. I'm not going to buy another Olight XML light.

Yep that is puke green or otherwise known as cat pi$% green, I'd be down about it as well. My regular S10 is almost neutral and I looked very forward to getting a S20 but with all these bad tint reports I'd only buy one if I knew it was going to have an ok tint and that would mean asking a dealer who knows what their looking at to check the tint before sending it out.

I'm going to return both the S20 and S10. I'm bummed because I love the interface and the small size of the S10 but it's just too green. I can handle a little green if I really like the light otherwise but this is too much for me. If they produce a NW, I'll get it or maybe I can convince my GF to give me the Ti version of the S10 which is NW for my B'day or Christmas (4 days apart)!

Wow, you're lucky as both S10 and S20 I received were about the same. I called the dealer and was told they are all like that. Can you PM me the dealer you got it from please?

jhc37013 said:

Yep that is puke green or otherwise known as cat pi$% green, I'd be down about it as well. My regular S10 is almost neutral and I looked very forward to getting a S20 but with all these bad tint reports I'd only buy one if I knew it was going to have an ok tint and that would mean asking a dealer who knows what their looking at to check the tint before sending it out.

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It's not due to the led itself, tintshift is normal with an underdriven led in a current controlled light.

Ti²C said:

It's not due to the led itself, tintshift is normal with an underdriven led in a current controlled light.

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It's due to the LED itself.

:shakehead.......I can't post what I think of that! I wil say this, if I was selling these and all my stock looked like that, right back to Olight they go!

It probably is a bit greener due to being under driven but the LED itself has a green tint otherwise, it wouldn't be so green. The proof is in the (puked) pudding!

Ti²C said:

It's not due to the led itself, tintshift is normal with an underdriven led in a current controlled light.

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This is what I think of that tint.

paulsl said:

It probably is a bit greener due to being under driven but the LED itself has a green tint otherwise, it wouldn't be so green. The proof is in the (puked) pudding!

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Yup. I think it's a combination of poor choice of tint + underdriven emitter.

My S10 looked the same. Incredibly green tint. About the greenest of all my lights, only matched by the green tint on my 4sevens mini AA. I swapped the emitter for a 5000k neutral XML. That got rid of the green, but everything now had a yellowish tint. I then tried a 4000k XML, which gave everything and orange tint. None of the XML emitters I tried gave satisfactory performance to me. And I felt that color rendition looked poor. I finally tried a Nichia 219 92 CRI... beautiful neutral tint with great color rendition and no hint of green.... but not as bright as the XMLs.

I have a lot of XML lights, but the ones with the best tints are the Eagletac D25 neutrals and my Spark SL190w all around 4500k.

How does a product like this make it through the system of checks and QC? They obviously don't have good people in key area's who would otherwise head this failure off.

This light had been on my wish list.

Does anyone has both an Olight I1EOS and an Olight S10 or S20? My I1EOS has a White/yellow tint with some green in it, but i consider it ok. Is the beam of the S10 and S20 similar or is it greener than the EOSI1?

The S10 and S20 are the greenest I've seen but I haven't seen yours.

Yeah, tint shift is normal like Gi2c said above, though these are beyond normal.. My S10 is green on max output w/rcr123.

Regardless of how much work goes into the design/engineering of a flashlight, it all culminates with what comes out of the window when you turn it on. When the result is something like this, why bother? Every current controlled light I own has a "shift" at lower levels. When I say "shift", I mean a slight pale hint of green. No surprise, I expect it! When set to their designed drive levels(high, max, turbo, etc..) they all present as white. Some cool, some neutral, some warm, these "labels" are my interpretations. One thing they have in common is they are all based on "white". What I see in that beamshot is just GREEN, not a "shift" or under-driven emitter, just a bad colour. It's baffling really, not for just Olight but any manufacturer. Design and build a winner(for all intents and purposes) and have it turn into a steaming pile when you turn it on! Time for these manufacturers to start thinking how their lights perform beyond the drawing board. Start at the most important part and work from there!!

Here's a shot of my S10(Left), and S10-Ti(Right).

NorthernStar said:

Does anyone has both an Olight I1EOS and an Olight S10 or S20? My I1EOS has a White/yellow tint with some green in it, but i consider it ok. Is the beam of the S10 and S20 similar or is it greener than the EOSI1?

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I would like to be able to comment on this issue as I own all three of these flashlights and another twelve Olight flashlights but apparently I have said enough on this issue.

What I will do is post a photo of the beam tints of these three lights and add a "very white but not blue light" with them to give you an idea of what the colours are like.


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Comparison photos added to post no 21.



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MattSPL said:

Here's a shot of my S10(Left), and S10-Ti(Right).

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I took my S10 Ti light back because I did not want a "Pinkish" looking light added to my collection.


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I'm going to put a cool or neutral white XM-L2 into my S10-Ti, once i find somewhere to buy one.