Daylight balanced flashlight

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Hey everyone... I'm looking for a daylight balanced flashlight that preferably runs on either aa or aaa batteries, I have loads of them but most tend to give off a blue hue. Anyone recommend a flashlight to me that whould be used for light painting etc? Thanks.

P. S. A good bit of power would be great also to send it a bit farther.
 
itsdavedotnet said:
try a circle of 1/4 CTO gel, should fit inside the lens of most torches and tends to bring them to about daylight
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Cheers for the info, I have the little Rosco gels for the flash guns, never thought on using those to warm things up. If I had brains I would be dangerous lol.

If anyone also had any recommendations on torches all the same would be greatly appreciated.
 
You'll get very blue light from most cheap LED torches. Get one with a good quality LED in it though and the light will be close to daylight. CREE are the probably the leaders in high output high quality LED elements with the CREE XM-L2 being the current popular element. It kicks out about 1100 lumens in its brightness form. Popular brands known to produce good quality flashlights (torches) using CREE elements include EagleTac (or sometimes EagTac), Klarus, Fenix and Nitecore. I have a Klarus light that makes very nice light at about 980 lumens. It doesn't "zoom" though which makes it less useful for regular lightpainting (I stuff it into a T8 tube Eric Pare style). Almost all of the recent good LED flashlights run on one or more 18650 cells. These are around 3.7Volts and are used in most Lithium Ion batteries, and loose inside vapour inhalers.

Here's the list I made when last looking for lights for the tubes - although I was mainly looking for very narrow lights on this occasion to get 2 in a T8 tube so the bigger ones are not on this list:-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AwN7blJ-r3NT98mp8kSd-sheWSvsm01yH2DNcOhPXf4/edit?usp=sharing

Just search Ebay for "XM-L2 <brand name>" where the brand name is one of the 4 above and read the specs carefully :). Note: EagTac is hard to get in the UK.
 
Scooter said:
You'll get very blue light from most cheap LED torches. Get one with a good quality LED in it though and the light will be close to daylight. CREE are the probably the leaders in high output high quality LED elements with the CREE XM-L2 being the current popular element. It kicks out about 1100 lumens in its brightness form. Popular brands known to produce good quality flashlights (torches) using CREE elements include EagleTac (or sometimes EagTac), Klarus, Fenix and Nitecore. I have a Klarus light that makes very nice light at about 980 lumens. It doesn't "zoom" though which makes it less useful for regular lightpainting (I stuff it into a T8 tube Eric Pare style). Almost all of the recent good LED flashlights run on one or more 18650 cells. These are around 3.7Volts and are used in most Lithium Ion batteries, and loose inside vapour inhalers.

Here's the list I made when last looking for lights for the tubes - although I was mainly looking for very narrow lights on this occasion to get 2 in a T8 tube so the bigger ones are not on this list:-
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AwN7blJ-r3NT98mp8kSd-sheWSvsm01yH2DNcOhPXf4/edit?usp=sharing

Just search Ebay for "XM-L2 <brand name>" where the brand name is one of the 4 above and read the specs carefully :). Note: EagTac is hard to get in the UK.
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Thanks for the in depth insight... Much appreciated mate... I have 2 cree torches but not sure in what kind.... 1 was cheap. And the other is a head torch with a big beam solus or some kind of name on it... Uses one of those batteries your on about. Will look into the cree ones your mentioned and see what I find. Thanks again.
 
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