F89
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Ok, here are my best efforts at realistic color temperature comparisons (hard to capture what I see, but these are close..):
first pair on left are triple led lights, the middle N219b is slightly more pink in real life:
in the next photo are single LED lights (the 219b below is correctly showing less pink than the above example):
next below, a photo that turned out really really well, very close to what I see with my eyes, single Leds using a Fenix E01 (notoriously blue)
the goal of this post is to give a reasonable impression of the sm303 3000k 219cI hope it helps people visualize the relative color differences between the temperatures..
I look forward to your impressions of the sm273, I was reluctant to try the D220 sm273 fearing it will be greener and or yellower than the D200 sm303
I also got a couple of sm305 and one if them IS slightly more pink than the other.. all relative of course
good luck with your tint lottery
enjoy your FlashyWeekend!
note on photo technique
Im using an iPhone 5, nothing special, it has auto white balance. That is why I include a cool white light in the pics.. it brings all the colors into correct range, like what I see. Try it!
oh, the white "walls" is just a piece of folded printer paper.. works great
show me more photos!
I always take beam tint photos with a grain of salt and at best only look on them as a rough guide, too many variables and so. I have the gear and know how to take valuable photos but basically couldn't be assed so on that note I'm not much help until and if I ever bother to take and post photos.
Regarding the sm273 and 303 what I'm hoping for won't have greens or yellows, very undesirable obviously, but I don't want pink either as much as I rate it in a good 4500K High CRI. What I'm after is a golden orange with as smooth range as possible. I guess that's the goal with this light, a nice toasty campfire warm.
I only have a couple of each LED coming so I won't be able to sample too much, I actually would like to just make an emotional guess and put one in and be done with it although I will probably reflow one of each on to a 20mm star and compare them side by side before choosing which one to reflow on to the HDS PCB.