thethePete
Explorer
I've been in enough pissing contests on here recently, so I'm going to try not to start into another one.
However, for all your shouting, you're not as right as you think you are. Further more, the guy you keep trying to dismiss with your sarcastic "Mr. Expert" is providing a method for factual, numbers-based way to determine if you're getting adequate lighting in areas you need it or not, and you just keep yelling "my eyes don't lie". Remember, the plural of anecdote isn't data.
The fact that you can't seem to acknowledge that your lights hotspot because you moved the focal point of light in the reflector tells me that you don't fully understand what you're trying to claim knowledge on; and I don't care how many kilometers you drive in the dark every year.
Of course lighting to the sides of the road is important when deciding on lights. Do the moose only stand in the middle of the road out on the Rock? Last I checked stuff comes at you from the shoulders of the road, so lighting off to the side is fairly critical. Offroad lighting, when speaking of moving slowly through a trail, can be diffused and light close up. Lighting at speed, so say... on the highway, needs to be more directional and focused. So yes. Scattered, ****ty light works fine offroad on a trail at 40km/h or less, but when you're travelling down a highway at 100km/h or more, beam pattern and where your light goes is a touch more important.
Wanna see something neat? Here's 2 pictures, one with a pair of Hella 500FFs, and then a second picture with 500FFs and 500 with fresnels pointed to flood out the ditches. Notice the distinct lack of hotspotting you had on your garage wall? Know why? 'Cause I'm using 100w halogen bulbs, not HIDs. It also doesn't flood the foreground with a bunch of scattered useless light to kill your pupils. It sends light downrange where the reflector was designed to put it. (Remember what I said earlier about quantity of light vs quality)? Drove across the country with this setup, in the dark, in the winter. Provided more than adequate lighting to prevent eye fatigue and turned on and off with my highbeams no problem, no waiting for them to heat up after, and no blinding oncoming traffic.
(the road crowns slightly up away from the car, so you can see the beam hitting the ground all the way out. On level ground the light casts out to infinity)
The low-beams are also casting some foreground hotspotting as well. I can dig up the picture from the same spot with just the low-beams if required, all shots were done with the same camera settings, but I forget what they were now because this was at least 5 years ago.
However, for all your shouting, you're not as right as you think you are. Further more, the guy you keep trying to dismiss with your sarcastic "Mr. Expert" is providing a method for factual, numbers-based way to determine if you're getting adequate lighting in areas you need it or not, and you just keep yelling "my eyes don't lie". Remember, the plural of anecdote isn't data.
The fact that you can't seem to acknowledge that your lights hotspot because you moved the focal point of light in the reflector tells me that you don't fully understand what you're trying to claim knowledge on; and I don't care how many kilometers you drive in the dark every year.
Of course lighting to the sides of the road is important when deciding on lights. Do the moose only stand in the middle of the road out on the Rock? Last I checked stuff comes at you from the shoulders of the road, so lighting off to the side is fairly critical. Offroad lighting, when speaking of moving slowly through a trail, can be diffused and light close up. Lighting at speed, so say... on the highway, needs to be more directional and focused. So yes. Scattered, ****ty light works fine offroad on a trail at 40km/h or less, but when you're travelling down a highway at 100km/h or more, beam pattern and where your light goes is a touch more important.
Wanna see something neat? Here's 2 pictures, one with a pair of Hella 500FFs, and then a second picture with 500FFs and 500 with fresnels pointed to flood out the ditches. Notice the distinct lack of hotspotting you had on your garage wall? Know why? 'Cause I'm using 100w halogen bulbs, not HIDs. It also doesn't flood the foreground with a bunch of scattered useless light to kill your pupils. It sends light downrange where the reflector was designed to put it. (Remember what I said earlier about quantity of light vs quality)? Drove across the country with this setup, in the dark, in the winter. Provided more than adequate lighting to prevent eye fatigue and turned on and off with my highbeams no problem, no waiting for them to heat up after, and no blinding oncoming traffic.
(the road crowns slightly up away from the car, so you can see the beam hitting the ground all the way out. On level ground the light casts out to infinity)
The low-beams are also casting some foreground hotspotting as well. I can dig up the picture from the same spot with just the low-beams if required, all shots were done with the same camera settings, but I forget what they were now because this was at least 5 years ago.
