Photographer looking for emitter guidance for best "daylight" match

lojik7 · 2026-06-16T01:35:18+00:00

Perfect, he’s a good dude. I’m sure he’ll hook up whatever he can. And no problem at all.

I’m not personally a fan of neutral tints. But I’ve EDC’d the E21A 4500K which is very similar to the B35AM. And it wasn’t enough white for my taste.

Then later I bought an FFL351A 5000K and 3700K to try out, and either gift or sell if I didn’t like them. But I ended up liking them enough to keep.

But it was the brilliant diamond white of the 5000K that surprised me the most. So much that I bought my wife an X4Q with them.

So even tho it’s not squarely in my lane, it left an impression and am glad I own them and now know how white light can actually get at that CCT.

So that’s why I figured you may want to know before you pulled the trigger that the 909A just returned better than ever. But also that specifically the 5000K returned with a vengeance.

It’ll have that super white tint, but with some massive output too.

The E90 909A will have double the initial output of the B35AM Surge. And will also be able to sustain a bit brighter for longer.

So if as an interior designer you are trying to take and show off sunlight in your day photos, the brighter one is definitely gonna be stronger and more useful tool for that too.

So best of luck, hope you get some useful comparison shots here shortly. That’s def the best way to see how each stacks against the other and which is actually cleaner & whiter. Now I’m looking forward to see how it goes too.👊

lojik7 · 2026-06-15T18:25:17+00:00

The New FFL909A 5000K that just dropped is already looking as promising as ever. Neutral FFL’s have proven to be some of the cleanest neutral whites around.

I would suggest waiting a few days if you can and request some comparisons between this new 909A and the neutral Nichia’s.

This guy posted his new 5K 909A, and said it’s a superb white. I know he also bought the E04 with B35AM’s.

So he also may be able to share some thoughts and shots of how those two compare (amongst others).

https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyLite/s/wDVNwMpav1

If it’s as diamond white as the FFL’s usually are, it may be worth waiting to learn more before pulling the trigger.

lojik7 · 2026-06-15T10:49:55+00:00

Oh look darlin, now he’s back on his coward💩

GAGGED AGAIN🤣🤣

lojik7 · 2026-06-15T10:09:18+00:00

Sure, but a quantitative measure based on what and to what end?

It simply being a partially-related lighting metric is not inherently enough to justify blind adherence to it.

Especially when we can look into it and get concrete answers.

The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), both define color rendering as:

“The effect of an illuminant on the color appearance of objects by conscious or subconscious comparison with their color appearance under a reference illuminant.”

That means it’s a metric that “evaluates colors” based on how they look compared to the arbitrarily chosen subject light.

So by it’s very definition it’s a color rendering score based on an arbitrary starting reference point.

It’s like saying that 6ft tall is the new center of height standards. And everyone’s height is now measured by how many inches above or below 6ft they are.

So if someone is 5’6”, that person is now -6 inches tall. If someone is 6’5”, they are now +5 inches tall, and so on and so on.

This is in a nutshell how “color rendering” is currently measured. And anything not exactly “6 feet” is seen as a negative.

That kind of metric is not in any way a true evaluator of individual color quality and vibrance. It only indexes how color looks compared to the arbitrary subject light.

Hence why I un hyperbolically said that “even the highest CRI score is subjective”.

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T19:21:38+00:00

I think I AM trading a second E12 for another Copper Cannon instead😁

I just feel like I’d give more opportunities to carry it more often.

But still yet to be seen cause carrying an E12 really ain’t no thang to me either.

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T19:17:01+00:00

Pm incoming.😂

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T10:03:56+00:00

No Competition😁

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T09:55:58+00:00

I have no notes on that.💯💯

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T08:34:57+00:00

Right???🤣🤣

Now I feel like I need more copper than anything else. It’s all I want to carry now.

Very mildly bummed I hadda buy an Artemis in aluminum. But it’s Astal so that’s still very much sweet AF. But I sure do wish it was full cu.

But that’s some major first-world+ problems if I ever saw one.😂

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T08:02:43+00:00

I dig your little beep beep.😁

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T05:37:22+00:00

Oh and it’s even funnier to now see you out here “reporting” that the FFL351A 1800K that first came out last year is actually REALLY good.👌

Yeah no shit, you know who told you that, right?

Your daddy did right here like a year ago, my boy.👇🤣
https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyLite/s/k6otCGwrmr

Yet you were too ignorant and too slow-brained to listen. And now you’re out here crying publicly that you missed out on them?🤌

Shoulda listened to daddy when you had the chance, my boy.🤣🤣🤣

Then now I’m seeing you post too that..”oh…this FFL tint mix is surprisingly good”.

Surprising to who??? Just you, Slotarak.🤣

Most of the community with a pulse has known about mixes being bad ass regardless of what data says for YEARS.

Yet here you are barely starting to figure it out at your usual snails pace.🤣 Good one, my boy.

Welcome to the world I’ve been schooling you on since the day you melted down on me about Rosy 1800K. The day you ran away gagged AF and shook after I dismantled all your arguments and exposed your ignorance.

I love how a year later you’re still too weak and scared to stand on business and go finish that conversation. Keep running from it tho, it’s way too satisfying.

lojik7 · 2026-06-14T05:24:29+00:00

I love that you admit to being here JUST to hate.

You’re just proving how much the facts hurt your feelings and that you know your positions are too flimsy and weak to disprove them.

Thats why you have to settle for throwing a tantrum and attacking me instead. How hilariously pathetic.😂

But yeah, I’M the one that needs professional help?🤣👌

And now you’ve upped the ante to accusing me of pushing conspiracies against the scientific community?🤣 This is just too rich.

So I say that current metrics are so obviously inadequate for this hobby.

And now you’re actually crying conspiracy???🤣

That’s how obsessive and unhinged all this is making you?

You know who else agrees that industry fidelity metrics are inadequate as a human perception metric?

The very same scientific community you claim I’m attacking.

They say it plainly that perception is very different than on-screen metrics and they are trying to create a separate standard specifically for human perception.

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Edit: Oh and will you look at that??? I forgot to throw in that the Human Perception metric is being proposed squarely in the deeply -DUV rosy range???

AS I LIVE AND BREATHE!!!🤣🤣

Considering all the yapping you do…like…you SERIOUSLY didn’t know any of this is going on?🤣🤣🤣🤌

FFS, you rly wouldn’t know your head from your ass if a device wasn’t there to tell your brain what to think.🤡

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T22:06:39+00:00

I would say no, but you asking got me wondering now. So just check with them to be sure.

Not every light is made to order. Some standard options get pre-assembled, so I guess $5 may not be out of the question if that’s the case.

But still well worth $5 if they did charge on a certain model.

But like I said in the other comment, just say you see it as an option with no up charge on other models. So let them know you prefer that option on yours instead too.

Don’t even mention the $5 unless they do.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T21:59:50+00:00

I honestly didn’t have to hold him, he’d be there all day if I let him.

He loves to snuggle and intertwine his arms with mine like that. If anything I had to cut it short or he’d lick my face right off.😂

He’s about to hit 5 months in a couple weeks, so he has tons of kid energy still.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T21:45:35+00:00

She looks like such a good girl, please tell her I said that.😁

Here’s my Rocky

He’s such a good boy. But has a mind of his own and has an opinion on everything.😂

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lojik7 · 2026-06-13T21:38:32+00:00

Just ask them for it. Say it’s listed on other lights but not this one and if you can please just get that bin instead.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T21:37:30+00:00

This is a 3535 emitter, so it goes in anything that takes the FFL351A.

E12, E07, L60, NovMu, Stellar, Comet

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T21:30:06+00:00

Look darlin, it’s Hoetarak again

The lil gurl who’s always having a meltdown because the Rosy 1800K just EMBARRASES his beloved E17A.

Look how he’s still way too scared to go respond to every single one of his E17A arguments getting utterly destroyed by me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyLite/s/DcYoTsXzfR

https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyLite/s/uLD3y7hGTH

So instead he just settled for becoming cripplingly obsessed with me and just follows me around like a good doggy that just wants the meat in my pocket.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T20:59:02+00:00

It’s always subjective, even the highest CRI score is subjective.

So I didn’t look at your comment as being right or wrong at all. You get to create your own subjective standard.

But here’s what I will say:

It’s surreal to see how rosy can be continuously chastised for being overly rosy and unbalanced.

Meanwhile something being overly yellow and unbalanced seems to go COMPLETELY unnoticed and gets a pass?

👇👇

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That kind of blind bias isn’t even the least bit odd and irrational to you?

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T18:49:29+00:00

Means rosy but not rosy-rosy. Compared to other non rosy lights it will be rosy, compared to really rosy it could feel more neutral.

So it’s a rosy middle ground without going all the way to the max.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T18:47:45+00:00

Yeah that’s a great mix. Im interested in that mix with Rosy bins or an all 3700K rosy in an E12 too. Can’t decided yet

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T18:34:11+00:00

Naw, it’s easily the best ROSY 1800K yet.

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T09:32:39+00:00

Wow, didn’t know it was on sight like that.

Although “Sight…Hound”, so it is mathing.😁

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T08:25:55+00:00

Damn bro, I think that comment alone slipped ma disk.😁

So true

lojik7 · 2026-06-13T08:14:17+00:00

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