Working on the full collection thread... stay tuned...
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I gotta say that this new diode here is my favorite diode ever. I wanted something bluer than 488, but greener than 480... and this is the perfect middle ground for that. I honestly couldn't be happier with the color.
I bought this host off Rich after trying to make another host work, but there were some unforeseen complications that made the original one impossible. In the end, I just wanted something with a beefy enough heatsink and a side-clicky.
Behold... (poorly edited) 485nm!
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Does anybody know how to adjust the colors better than using boltbait's plugin pack to adjusting hues between hue 1 and 2 (anything between cyan and blue, make greener)? I do not have photoshop... been using paint.NET but it's way too much work to edit each one like this! And they don't even come out looking too good! Doing it this way has been consistently a little better than the recolor tool... though it's a lot more work... any suggestions?
You can see how botched the color work is on this shot...
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Less so on this, but still kind of noticeable...
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Back to business...
For anyone wondering what the color looks like.. it's hard to tell. As you may or may not know, monitors can't fully reproduce the exact color of a specific wavelength of light. If you want to learn more about that, look into color gamut. Every monitor is different, so it isn't exact... though it's reasonably close, and is moreso to show the magnitude of color difference between wavelengths:
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And the shot some of you were wanting:
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From a distance, the spot is very small, as expected. However it does have a bowtie shape to the spot...
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Though it's less pronounced than the above picture shows it... the center of the spot is still far brighter than the bow
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As for the unfocused output, it has a very clean output:
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And I flashed it on one of my prisms (?), and loved the result so I snapped a pic of that...
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And to end it for now...
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More to come tomorrow... and the 480... and 476... and 505... and 450... and 638... and 589... I hope :o
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I gotta say that this new diode here is my favorite diode ever. I wanted something bluer than 488, but greener than 480... and this is the perfect middle ground for that. I honestly couldn't be happier with the color.
I bought this host off Rich after trying to make another host work, but there were some unforeseen complications that made the original one impossible. In the end, I just wanted something with a beefy enough heatsink and a side-clicky.
Behold... (poorly edited) 485nm!
Does anybody know how to adjust the colors better than using boltbait's plugin pack to adjusting hues between hue 1 and 2 (anything between cyan and blue, make greener)? I do not have photoshop... been using paint.NET but it's way too much work to edit each one like this! And they don't even come out looking too good! Doing it this way has been consistently a little better than the recolor tool... though it's a lot more work... any suggestions?
You can see how botched the color work is on this shot...
Less so on this, but still kind of noticeable...
Back to business...
For anyone wondering what the color looks like.. it's hard to tell. As you may or may not know, monitors can't fully reproduce the exact color of a specific wavelength of light. If you want to learn more about that, look into color gamut. Every monitor is different, so it isn't exact... though it's reasonably close, and is moreso to show the magnitude of color difference between wavelengths:
And the shot some of you were wanting:
From a distance, the spot is very small, as expected. However it does have a bowtie shape to the spot...
Though it's less pronounced than the above picture shows it... the center of the spot is still far brighter than the bow
As for the unfocused output, it has a very clean output:
And I flashed it on one of my prisms (?), and loved the result so I snapped a pic of that...
And to end it for now...
More to come tomorrow... and the 480... and 476... and 505... and 450... and 638... and 589... I hope :o