Hi all.
In the pursuit of my quest for the ideal medium-flood light aside from the LuxV solution, Don built me a PR head with a LD LuxI in it. I'd like to share the results of this test.
The two candidates are
left: McLux-PR R2J LD LuxI DownBoy700
right: McLux-PR R2H HD LuxI DownBoy 700
Luxeon lottery aside, they should be perfectly comparable as the only independent variable is the LED dome.
The R2J LD is the older version with the phosphor-filled dome and not the newer EOS LDs.
Enough
, on with the beamshots ...
Corona Shot:
(LD on the right)
Hotspot Shot:
(LD on the right)
Indoor Shot HD:
Indoor Shot LD:
Outdoor Shot HD (target is a tree about 6m away shot from a 1st story window):
Outdoor Shot LD:
Please excuse my camera that is not capable of adequately capturing the coronas in the real-life pics, those are essentially hotspot and near-hotspot comparisons.
The results are what I wanted:
- the LD produces a much bigger and softer hotspot that gently fades inito the corona
- the color is on the yellow side and no way near the pure white of the HD, although that might change when EOS LDs in higher bins will be available
- throw of the LD is really not bad, think of the L4 with a few meters more reach
- beam quality up close is not as perfect as with the HD, but that does not matter in real life.
Overall .... very nice for people like me That means this combo should be interesting for about 0.1% of CPF /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Let's hope for the EOS LDs ...
bernhard
In the pursuit of my quest for the ideal medium-flood light aside from the LuxV solution, Don built me a PR head with a LD LuxI in it. I'd like to share the results of this test.
The two candidates are
left: McLux-PR R2J LD LuxI DownBoy700
right: McLux-PR R2H HD LuxI DownBoy 700
Luxeon lottery aside, they should be perfectly comparable as the only independent variable is the LED dome.
The R2J LD is the older version with the phosphor-filled dome and not the newer EOS LDs.
Enough
Corona Shot:
(LD on the right)
Hotspot Shot:
(LD on the right)
Indoor Shot HD:
Indoor Shot LD:
Outdoor Shot HD (target is a tree about 6m away shot from a 1st story window):
Outdoor Shot LD:
Please excuse my camera that is not capable of adequately capturing the coronas in the real-life pics, those are essentially hotspot and near-hotspot comparisons.
The results are what I wanted:
- the LD produces a much bigger and softer hotspot that gently fades inito the corona
- the color is on the yellow side and no way near the pure white of the HD, although that might change when EOS LDs in higher bins will be available
- throw of the LD is really not bad, think of the L4 with a few meters more reach
- beam quality up close is not as perfect as with the HD, but that does not matter in real life.
Overall .... very nice for people like me That means this combo should be interesting for about 0.1% of CPF /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Let's hope for the EOS LDs ...
bernhard