Lightraven
Flashlight Enthusiast
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Sorry for the awkward phrasing of the question. This topic may have been covered before, but I'm wondering:
1. What lumen multiple and
2. What lux multiple is noticeable to the average eye and
3. What lumen multiple and
4. What lux multiple is meaningful for a flashlight?
In other words, can the average person distinguish between 65 and 100 lumens, for example? Even if he/she can, is it a meaningful difference between two flashlights? I ask the same question about candela/lux.
The answer would sound something like, "People generally can discriminate a 1.5x (50%) increase in lumens, but it would probably take a 2x (100%) increase to be useful/worthwhile."
I was playing (I mean conducting empirical testing /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif) with my E2e and C2 the other night. By every simple method I could devise, the E2e was brighter, whiter and more "lumenous" than the C2 to my eye. According to Quickbeam's charts, the C2 should throw further and produce more light. I even switched batteries and got the same result.
In a store today, I compared an L2 to an L4 and could not see any significant difference.
1. What lumen multiple and
2. What lux multiple is noticeable to the average eye and
3. What lumen multiple and
4. What lux multiple is meaningful for a flashlight?
In other words, can the average person distinguish between 65 and 100 lumens, for example? Even if he/she can, is it a meaningful difference between two flashlights? I ask the same question about candela/lux.
The answer would sound something like, "People generally can discriminate a 1.5x (50%) increase in lumens, but it would probably take a 2x (100%) increase to be useful/worthwhile."
I was playing (I mean conducting empirical testing /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif) with my E2e and C2 the other night. By every simple method I could devise, the E2e was brighter, whiter and more "lumenous" than the C2 to my eye. According to Quickbeam's charts, the C2 should throw further and produce more light. I even switched batteries and got the same result.
In a store today, I compared an L2 to an L4 and could not see any significant difference.