GulfCoastToad
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^^^ and if anyone here is in Central Texas, I have a full DSLR set-up and 1000 acres of land from which to shoot. PM me.
The new OSTS Nightmaster (in white, green, red, and soon infrared versions)
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JohnGalway
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This thread is so freaking worthless without pictures. You kids need to quit talking about lumens and go outside with a camera and tripod. You owe it to us all
Buy me a good camera, I'll take all the photos you can handle
GulfCoastToad
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Buy me a good camera, I'll take all the photos you can handle
For under $100 you could purchase a camera that would take beam shots as good as any I've seen on this website. Which camera you choose is about as important as which spoon brand Paula Deen decides to stir her recipes with.
JohnGalway
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Would my Panasonic Lumix do the job do you think? It's a 12 megapixel DM(something)-FS.
Fbygden
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Here you are, a couple of pictures taken while shining my OSTS Nightmaster from my balcony at a tree 150 meters away. They are taken with 70mm & 200mm on a full frame camera and just cropped slightly. It's really moist in the air tonight, hence the bright beam, the hotspot though is even brighter a day with dryer air. I tried to get the camera setting to represent what I can see with my eyes (as close as possible)
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Tatjanamagic
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Very nice pictures...
If I will judge by picture It really does look brighter than mine stock NightmasterV2 with EZ900 pill but frankly speaking not much... Probably because foggy weather and because stock NMV2 is also bright as hell at 150 meters...
I think we could see difference comparing them on 400 meters where OSTS Nightmaster should be noticeable better.
I would not say that osts hotspot is tighter(U all claim that it is tighter? Are U sure?) and it even looks bigger than stock ez900...
It is something I have not seen so far... Very interesting emitter with neutral tint while with stock one beam looks like this(extra foggy conditions) :
Looking forward for more pictures from this OSTS Nightmaster beast!
If I will judge by picture It really does look brighter than mine stock NightmasterV2 with EZ900 pill but frankly speaking not much... Probably because foggy weather and because stock NMV2 is also bright as hell at 150 meters...
I think we could see difference comparing them on 400 meters where OSTS Nightmaster should be noticeable better.
I would not say that osts hotspot is tighter(U all claim that it is tighter? Are U sure?) and it even looks bigger than stock ez900...
It is something I have not seen so far... Very interesting emitter with neutral tint while with stock one beam looks like this(extra foggy conditions) :
Looking forward for more pictures from this OSTS Nightmaster beast!
Fbygden
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Regarding how tight the beam is, I believe the moisture in the air when I took the pictures made the beam disperse a bit, it is a REALLY tight beam.
Also, I believe the neutral color of the beam gives it a "softer" looking hotspot, but it's deceptive, the hotspot is crazy bright, and I LOVE the neutral tint.
Also, I believe the neutral color of the beam gives it a "softer" looking hotspot, but it's deceptive, the hotspot is crazy bright, and I LOVE the neutral tint.
Fbygden
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Tonight the air is dry, so I took a new picture for comparison, which resulted in a much brighter hotspot.
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Tatjanamagic
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Now it does not look like neutral tint at all while in foggy pictures looks neutral? It looks like more like mine stock ez900 with cool white tint?...
It is hard to take night pictures... Tried many times with bad results... I appreciate your effort...
Can U do side by side pictures OSTS Nightmaster vs Deerelight Nightmaster EZ900 1,5A driver?
It is hard to take night pictures... Tried many times with bad results... I appreciate your effort...
Can U do side by side pictures OSTS Nightmaster vs Deerelight Nightmaster EZ900 1,5A driver?
Fbygden
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I also saw the difference in tint in the pictures, the settings are the same though, I would still say that it's neutral white but at 150 meters it's so bright that it almost looks cool white.
Fbygden
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I just checked the setting to be sure, and I actually had a difference in VB in the last picture, here it is again, now with the same VB setting as the once taken in the mist.
I'd say that this is more accurate to what it actually looks like.
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I'd say that this is more accurate to what it actually looks like.
Cut out the middle man, order all three and take a bunch of photos for us. LOL
Tatjanamagic
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I took this picture of stock Dereelight Nightmaster V2, XRE EZ 900 in heavy fog conditions.
Stock nightmaster v2(about100kcd) and it has very intense hot spot with white tint(blueish white tint in combination with aspheric)
it is OSTS 200kcd vs STOCK 100kcd... It must be visible difference...
Stock nightmaster v2 has 1,5 A driver and XRE EZ900 emitter (it is not dedomed).
Judging this OSTS beam pictures and corona around the beam this could be hard driven, de domed XP-E2 emitter(1,5A-2A driver)?
de domed XP-E2 with white tint driven at 3A could squeeze even more juice from this light. Aspherical lenses likes white tint. It throws further...
Dave U can focus nightmaster to bring more flood so you don't need to worry about beam width for the foxes.
Nightmaster is the very best big or small game scope-hunting light in a world, and I claim that because I am hunter and I personally tried and tested tons of other light + expensive laser flashlights(junk).
When you turn on Nightmaster there's no light reflecting from grass, ground or other objects near you...
When you turn on reflector LED light, your night vision is killed by spill light that is reflecting from those nearby objects. Your pupil of the eye narrows and you see less. The brighter the environment is, the narrower is the pupil of the eye, so there's a reduction in light that hits the fundus.
Nightmaster beam has sharp borders, so there is better contrast between illuminated area and dark area. The enhanced contrast lets you to perceive it brighter.
With Nightmaster you see further because it does not ruin your night vision like reflector lights.
For example You will see further with Nightmaster than with monster reflector like SR90 or similar.
I would also like super tuned OSTS Nightmaster(or at least super tuned pill for regular Nightmaster)... But that looks like mission impossible to my country Darkonia
And I can bet that Saabluster could easily push boundaries of OSTS Nightmaster to more than 300kcd only if he wanted to but I think he wanted to settle with more stable configuration for regular hunting conditions(rifle recoil, runtime, heat consumption)
Stock nightmaster v2(about100kcd) and it has very intense hot spot with white tint(blueish white tint in combination with aspheric)
it is OSTS 200kcd vs STOCK 100kcd... It must be visible difference...
Stock nightmaster v2 has 1,5 A driver and XRE EZ900 emitter (it is not dedomed).
Judging this OSTS beam pictures and corona around the beam this could be hard driven, de domed XP-E2 emitter(1,5A-2A driver)?
de domed XP-E2 with white tint driven at 3A could squeeze even more juice from this light. Aspherical lenses likes white tint. It throws further...
Dave U can focus nightmaster to bring more flood so you don't need to worry about beam width for the foxes.
Nightmaster is the very best big or small game scope-hunting light in a world, and I claim that because I am hunter and I personally tried and tested tons of other light + expensive laser flashlights(junk).
When you turn on Nightmaster there's no light reflecting from grass, ground or other objects near you...
When you turn on reflector LED light, your night vision is killed by spill light that is reflecting from those nearby objects. Your pupil of the eye narrows and you see less. The brighter the environment is, the narrower is the pupil of the eye, so there's a reduction in light that hits the fundus.
Nightmaster beam has sharp borders, so there is better contrast between illuminated area and dark area. The enhanced contrast lets you to perceive it brighter.
With Nightmaster you see further because it does not ruin your night vision like reflector lights.
For example You will see further with Nightmaster than with monster reflector like SR90 or similar.
I would also like super tuned OSTS Nightmaster(or at least super tuned pill for regular Nightmaster)... But that looks like mission impossible to my country Darkonia
And I can bet that Saabluster could easily push boundaries of OSTS Nightmaster to more than 300kcd only if he wanted to but I think he wanted to settle with more stable configuration for regular hunting conditions(rifle recoil, runtime, heat consumption)
JohnGalway
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The beam width is fine Dave. I've taped up the part of the body which dims the light, so I can more simply adjust the beam width.
I can't remember the stock version well enough, and I haven't used the OSTS version enough to be able to reliably compare the two for you.
Rather embarrassingly I missed the same fox twice last night, at just over 100 and just under 200, but third time was a charm, range fell into "bloody close enough territory" I'd say 170-180. We had found her den so she wasn't keen on going away. I hadn't the light properly adjusted for the 200 yard shot, my own shooting was likely to blame for the 100 miss.
I like the light, I will need more scope/trigger time with it. Foxes aren't cooperating with us in this part of the world this year :scowl:
One thing I will say, is the little batteries I ended up getting Soshine Li-Ion 3.7v protected RCR-123 700mAh don't last pissing time (excuse my French).
ScaryFatKidGT
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Id really like to know the led EZ900, EZ1000 XP-E2?
Yeah I would either get some good AW 750mah RCR-123's (not much of an improvement) or the cell extender from deree light and run 2 18500's or the best 2 3400mah 18650's. I wish there was a full power single cell version.
Thanks for the info guys,
Ive got the stock nightmaster and xsearcher and have played around with modded ez 900 q5 pills a bit, they are really good lights and do the job but more light is always better lol.
I was hoping saablusters version would be closer to the 300kcd mark and that the red version would throw further but it's still miles better than anything else on the market I suppose.
Just hoping the osts night master mk2 doesn't come out in 3 months and smash it lol.
John the foxes aren't cooperating down here either. I want to get into fox hunting with just red light. Ive heard it works really well. My plan when funding allows; deft-x with red filter for spotting, tn30 with red filter for walking around flood light and red osts nightmaster for scope mounted light!
Foxes won't stand a chance lol.
Ive got the stock nightmaster and xsearcher and have played around with modded ez 900 q5 pills a bit, they are really good lights and do the job but more light is always better lol.
I was hoping saablusters version would be closer to the 300kcd mark and that the red version would throw further but it's still miles better than anything else on the market I suppose.
Just hoping the osts night master mk2 doesn't come out in 3 months and smash it lol.
John the foxes aren't cooperating down here either. I want to get into fox hunting with just red light. Ive heard it works really well. My plan when funding allows; deft-x with red filter for spotting, tn30 with red filter for walking around flood light and red osts nightmaster for scope mounted light!
Foxes won't stand a chance lol.
Tatjanamagic
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Dave you said that you played with modded ez900 pills?
Did you have any improvement over regular 1,5amp pill?
Maybe OSTS Nightmaster has some kind of tuned ez 900? or maybe XP-E2... As they are same size it is hard to tell...
Did you have any improvement over regular 1,5amp pill?
Maybe OSTS Nightmaster has some kind of tuned ez 900? or maybe XP-E2... As they are same size it is hard to tell...
Tatjanamagic
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I have that emitter in nightmaster V2 and it does 238KCD... And be sure that I am not lying here... There can be only more than that since my meter under reads lux.
jmpaul320 is your Neutral 4000K/5000K or Cool White 6500K?
Mine is white 6500 K
I still did not put it in my Xsearcher because it is tiny in NMV2 and it would be even smaller in XS but I think you got good numbers for XS...
It must throw over 300KCD for sure...
So hard driven XP-E2 de domed is new king of throw beating older XRE and XPC emitter (now have them all), and probably OSTS NMV2 has it
Mine is very tiny when focused hard but giving very good flood mode in NMV2 (over 60 000 lux/m) so you can search wider terrain...
I think that Saabluster can push OSTS NMV2 more than 300KCD with his technology... 400KCD would be fine
Vinh currently took lux/kcd lead with his XP-E2 3A de domed pill... But very close lead...
jmpaul320 is your Neutral 4000K/5000K or Cool White 6500K?
Mine is white 6500 K
I still did not put it in my Xsearcher because it is tiny in NMV2 and it would be even smaller in XS but I think you got good numbers for XS...
It must throw over 300KCD for sure...
So hard driven XP-E2 de domed is new king of throw beating older XRE and XPC emitter (now have them all), and probably OSTS NMV2 has it
Mine is very tiny when focused hard but giving very good flood mode in NMV2 (over 60 000 lux/m) so you can search wider terrain...
I think that Saabluster can push OSTS NMV2 more than 300KCD with his technology... 400KCD would be fine
Vinh currently took lux/kcd lead with his XP-E2 3A de domed pill... But very close lead...
