I'm happy to hear that CPF members are having success with these filters. I hope you'all will post before and after photos.
It's interesting to me that the Philips LED light bulb is basically a bunch of blue-white LEDs that are being filtered with several yellow panels:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007C7IGUU/?tag=cpf0b6-20
I've got an interesting experiment in the works. As most of you know, I'm a big believer in the power of using these filters as an
easy and inexpensive method for changing the tint of almost any flashlight's LED to any color you like, however, I keep hearing about these neat new HiCRI LEDs and I felt it was important to see for myself what all the fuss was about.
So, when the opportunity arose recently to have my NovaTac 120P modded with a Nichia 219 NVSL 4500k LED (CRI 92), I jumped on it. Most of the previous HiCRI LEDs were in the 3000k color temp range, which is way to red/yellow for me, but this new 4500K HiCRI LED has me quite intrigued and I'm very interested to see how my light looks when I get it back.
Keep in mind, I had previously filtered the SSC LED in the NovaTac 120P with a rose tinted filter to get a VERY white tint, so mainly I'm interested to see if the HiCRI has much of an effect on the color reproduction compared to the original filtered SSC LED.
There is another thread here which shows the tint of a very similar LED (Nichia 119 NVSL):
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/...-119-beamshots
If my light comes out looking like that, then I'll be a happy camper. I did take shots of my light's beam on a color chart with the original SSC LED, both unfiltered and filtered, before I sent it off for the mod, and I'll take a photo of the same color chart when I get the light back with the new Nichia 219 HiCRI 4500k LED. I'll post the results here
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Of course filtering is MUCH easier than sending the light off for modding, and you get to see the results INSTANTLY instead of having to wait for weeks. And even if you do the mod yourself, unless you're able to pick an exact tint bin, you'll always have to contend with the "LED tint lottery".
In any case, I'm very interested to get my first HiCRI LED light and compare it with my filtered lights. What fun!