The tint on mine is basically just like yours radellaf. Doesn't bug me too much in normal use but the 4000k Malkoff MDC has a much better tint in my opinion.
Yeah, but that's 4.5 inches long vs 3.1 and over $100 with only about 100lm. The tint off my L10 Nichia from L3 Illumination is perfect and it's 1/4 the price and just about as short as the ZL. I also have the Jaxman E2 for a perfect beam. Looks like Cree is still miles behind Nichia (or even the Luxeon T) on beam quality. Not that flashlights probably figure in much with their research.
The SC53c bugs me the moment I shine it on a white flat surface. In _every_ other situation, I love it.
ven said:
A lot depends on the use for me, if i worked in paper mill then it would have to be as clean as possible(example).
I was hoping for it to be clean (no tint shift in corona) for both photography and use of colored fountain pen inks. It's not, unless I can put the subject in the hotspot. So, in that way I'm disappointed. Still not entirely sure if I should limit the disappointment to this particular light, or XP-L2 LEDs in general. The paper photos are odd in that the SC53 looks really un-tinted. Really, I don't have any Cree LED lights (well maybe an XP-G one) that are good for photography.
Given that I have several really good lights, and I'm a hobbyist/collector, it's cool just to have a new light with a new LED type. That's the fascination, and if it is flawed and yellow in a way none of my other lights are, but not so badly that I don't enjoy using it, then in a way, all the better.
Tacman said:
got to love the extreme lows. Unfortunately some of their newer models are starting to use a bit higher lows. Hopefully they go back to the 0.01 lowest low for all models.
SC 5c: L1 2.8 Lm (4.2 days) or L2 1.0 Lm (14 days) / 0.28 Lm (50 days) / 0.08 Lm (4.3 months)
SC53c: L1 1.0 Lm (13 days) or L2 0.26 Lm (1.1 month) / 0.06 Lm (2.2 months) / 0.01 Lm (3.3 months)
SC64c: L1 2.1 Lm () or L2 0.67 Lm ()/0.19 Lm ()/0.05 Lm ()
600Fc: L1 4.0 Lm () or L2 1.4 Lm ()/0.5 Lm ()/0.15 Lm ()
I usually use the 0.06 on my SC52 and 53 as a nightlight, so don't mind if that's the low, but do hope .15 doesn't become more common. The older SC600 (Mk I) had a .09 low, which was getting a bit bright on the darkest nights. The new 1 or 2 Lm lows I totally disapprove of. Around 3 is much more sensible. It's a useful walking-around dark-adapted light level. However, since all the lights that have that preset also have the new UI, doesn't really matter.
I'll conclude with a photo of the SC53c's high CRI looking at a spectrum of ink swatches vs a (I think the SC62) "w" Zebralight. Well, a printed digital image. The real inks might show metamerism that the print won't. I guess the reds are better with the high CRI.