I was thinking of getting a 519A DD CCT-shift for the giggles of having that much high-CRI rosy light. What’s everybody else getting?
I’m not getting one but I think tint shifting is the way to go instead of throw/flood
My desired build is 519a 5700k + 519a 3500k with all the domes on. I would prefer 3000k but that’s not an option. Could I email him? Sure, but I probably wont. I would choose to keep the domes on first to see how it looks and dedome them myself later if I still wanted to. Dedoming 519a is hilariously easy.
I don’t feel likely to get an M44 and I am a bit puzzled by it. Someone described it as three D4v2’s taped together. Why not 3 lights then? The main purpose I see for a large light like that is a long range thrower with a big smooth reflector. But maybe LEP’s can displace some of those.
I’m thinking my normal 5700/5700DD mix on the cool channel. And my DW4 is about as warm as I really want to get, so 4500/4500DD on the other. Yeah, it’s a narrow range of ramping, but I have a narrow band of CCTs I like looking at. And the combination on 200% will hit right in the middle of that band.
Nothing, probably.
I have so far found two use cases for channel switching that I like. First: tint mixing, like in my LT1. Second: alternating between flood and throw, like in my D2 (3500K 519A and W1).
But I haven’t really felt like I wanted tint mixing in a flashlight, and the pattern of LEDs in the M44 don’t really lend themselves to throw. It might be different if each channel got two four-led clusters, so you could put different optics on each cluster,
On top of that, I already have a D18, which probably puts out more light than an M44, even with just SST-20s in the D18.
So I just can’t come up with an M44 configuration that feel compelling enough for me to want to drop money on it.
What’s the M44’s rampdown like compared to the D18 though. That’s the real question. For some, the sustained lumens of boost drivers is a draw.
5700k 519A/W1 (no point in W2 with only 2A/LED, so might as well go W1 for more throw, especially with the shallow optics) and 5700/2700k 519A.