u/lojik7

Whew’chile…what a phenomenal place to have 11 flashlights on me. The neighbors musta thought a new lighthouse was just built on top of the mountain.😁 It was literally a blast!

The last photo was my Vegas trip Loadout where I was at that Flashlight/Mana concert I posted about the other day.

There were so many great shots to take in Vegas and there were some dope photo plans I had for my lights in the city of lights.

But Vegas is such a FKN drag to get around now, that my whole damn trip woulda been spent running around trying to get them. So I said FK all that. But I do have a couple lovely videos I’ll share later.

This tint is FKN amazing and I’m so addicted to it that I already got a second one in Full Copper. It’s so good it’s even stole pocket time from my Rosy 1800K v2 which on its own is just nutso gorgeous.

That’s because it’s basically the Rosy 1800k, but not as warm. So it feels more carry-able in more environments while still having tons of Rosy 1800K essence.

I’ve been dying for a proper Rosy 2700K for years, but nothing was cuttin mustard. I tried the Rosy 2700K FFL5009R, but that was not really rosy-rosy. Turns out ppl were I guess complaining it was rosy, but not labeled rosy, so Jack decided to label it rosy.

But as someone who knows how to appreciate proper rosiness and consumes rosy emitters like TicTacs, it’s not a real full-blown rosy bin IMO. So I was a little disappointed, but no biggie as I still had to see it for myself. That’s just how it goes when you’re on the hunt for the most cutting edge tints and color rendering.

But it’s still way better than SOOO many other legacy emitters and serves as a great barometer to measure others from. BTW, it just SMOKES my 3000K 219B’s and Dedomed 2700K 519A’s, amongst others. Colors are just on another level.

It’s so crisp, clean and colorful that it makes your eyes function and absorb colors at what feels like our eyes maximum capacity.

I’ll drop a couple videos I got next time, but these are some of the photo’s I got of this one so far.

Keep in mind it is significantly warmer than daylight and not meant to mimic it directly. But it still looks insanely clean and colorful even around daylight, and you still get all the gooeyness of proper warmth.

Unfortunately, the typical yellow saturated warm emitters and even other 2700K-3000K FFL’s are just no match for the eye-popping color rendering of this mix.

So all that now being said, if you adore rosy warmth like I do, I just cannot recommend this mix enough. It’s by far the best 2700K-3000K tint I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing.

P.s.

How interchangeable Rosy & Purple colors are in organic materials is not discussed enough, but this is a good example of how that looks.

Poke Ball in 2nd Pic was a cool surprise. Added 3rd pic (in shade around daylight) to show it blends just fine.

Anyway, another Epic Rosy FFL Mix👌

Beamshots & Videos coming soon

Someone requested a bit more insight on how the throw on the SFT60 Surge feels.

So figured I'd just grab some quick shots so they could see for themselves if it works for them.

Both videos start in high/max-ramp. The half way through each video you can see turbo get activated.

Watch the much better quality video on YouTube.

This is how the NovMu got it’s perfect copper skin tone.😁

https://youtube.com/shorts/rFu7fcwtcL0

PSA: Ocean waves are a pretty violent environment to try and preserve a lights waterproofing.

There is a lot of pressure and sand being forced into every crevice (as anyone who's ever frolicked in a beach knows).
So I would not try this again.

I could tell the orings were under pressure and moisture was fighting its way in, helped by sand trying to wedge into every crevice whenever heavy water pressure hit the glass. Orings are not meant to withstand pressure like that, so they will compress too easily and eventually let moisture in.

So I have to vehemently NOT recommend anyone using a light in crashing waves unless the light is made specifically for diving purposes.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the small glimpse of the NovMu on vacation getting a spa treatment and basking in the sun.

P.S.

Going to be posting YouTube videos or at least accompanying them to a post. Reddit video and picture quality is abysmal and ppl miss way too much on color rendering posts.

YouTube isn’t always full res either, but it isn’t 2007 720P TV quality like Reddit is.

This video isn’t the ideal color quality candidate, but still gonna show better on YT than Reddit’s version.

I already added a few more videos to my YT that I’ll be adding to old and new posts going forward.

As an admitted Rosy Tint Snob,

From time to time I look to try out and give interesting & robust low-cri lights/emitters a chance. The idea is that if I don’t like it, I can just give it away to a friend as a gift they’re sure to love. And I can move on from something that wasn’t quite for me after giving it a shot.

So far to date, I have not kept any of these kinds of test purchases, I have always gifted them.

There WERE some SST40 6500K’s I got in an SP36 Pro that blew my mind (back in the day before FFL emitters) that I totally would’ve kept. They felt oddly rosy and clean with some color pop even next to my SW45K 219B’s back then. But I really wanted my friend to get a nice and powerful throwyish light with a fat beam for his new large home & property, so I parted with it for him.

Tho by today’s FFL standards…even the 219B’s look a bit stale & dated, so I’m sure they wouldn’t have cut mustard the same way anymore today.

Which brings me to this SFT60 Surge w/ Lume 10. This is going to be the very first one from all these experimentations that I’m actually going to happily keep and enjoy TF out of. Because it actually does cut enough mustard in this new FFL gorgeous & ultra clean emitter-tint era and reality we’re in.

It’s the first one I can rightfully say I genuinely recommend. And I won’t just tolerate it either, I can actually enjoy it for what it is.

My most recent experiment before this had me trying out the SFT42R Surge. And I was just not all-around as impressed as I hoped. I’m sure with the Lume 10 the SFT42’s will perform even better than with the Lume 1 driver I saw it with.

Although the SFT42’s were still relatively clean compared to other 6500K’s, the tint still felt a bit rough and directly fell short of the cleanliness of the FFL505A 6500K’s tint (which are the best 6500K emitter I’ve seen to date).

Which brings me to my next point. The SFT60 is actually damn near as clean-tinted as my FFL505A 6500K Surge. At first quick glance it was a bit hard to tell them apart against a wall. You can tell if you pay attention, but that alone is still impressive enough for being low-CRI SFT60’s.

Now color rendering is where the two are not in the same league because the FFL was just a far richer & color experience, but it was by a relatively tolerable amount. The tint being so damn clean helps a ton because a bad tint is what usually turns ppl like me off from these kinds of power emitters. But I can’t use the tint argument against these SFT60’s. I can use color rendering against it, but not tint, and especially not at max output as it just pops super white and bright.

You should not expect a wide-ranging color pop from the SFT60’s. But you can expect one of the cleaner & whiter 6500K tints around.

I am actually as happy with it as I am with my two other rosy E07’s that arrived, for different reasons, but I’m still ecstatic to have it.

I even wish I got it in Copper since I’m keeping it now. May even consider selling it just to swap it for a copper version.

Bottom line is it’s really bright and feels so white.

This is the light that finally paid off all the testing I did of all those other low-CRI emitters through the years.

It’s bright-bright, and it looks white-white, so it’s a true win-win.

Last thing I want to comment on is the price. It is not a cheap configuration. But I can honestly say that I can actually feel and see what the extra cost bought me, which is a pretty great feeling.

Now I do know ppl may be able to get these emitters from other brands, but 4 of these being paired in such a small but very plush and feature rich light with a killer beam that can actually be carried around is it’s own separate reward. And that’s on top of having the best drivers, efficiency and UI’s in the game.

This light feels like if Nightwatch & Fireflies did a collab. The output is superb, but so is the light as well as the tint. So I guess it’s actually more like a win-win-win.

You can see in the photo with the tree’s and grass area that the SFT60 produces magnitudes more light than the FFL505A version of itself.

Anyway, as odd as it feels to say being a rosy fanatic…I very highly recommend this fantastical combo.

I will do another video post to highlight and talk more in-depth about the color rendering differences that can be expected. But even without getting into all that, this thing is bad ass and truly excites the senses.

This post is a tip of the cap to this post by u/Calmlikea3omb

https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/s/mhXWeZPxuk

https://www.firefly-outdoor.com/products/e12-eclipse

For this battery-powered project I'm using MicroPython on a XIAO ESP32-S3 board, with a WS2812 LED strip. Multiple lamps can be synchronized together thanks to ESP-NOW.

Source code: https://codeberg.org/LAMPy/LAMPy

Hardware write-up: https://lampy.codeberg.page/

Let me know what you think!

Figured I’d share these since they don’t get seen much from the street. Plus cars are usually blocking them too.

I pulled up and was lucky no one was there, so I took advantage.

*Last shot is their shop mural, not an entry.