I totally remember choosing not to bother with this one because the first one was perfect.
Zombie: "Rawrrr" munch munch nom nom
Will: "Get my wife's arm out of your fucking mouth!"
</low hanging fruit>
I pre-ordered an X1L the first day, along with an E07x 519a and a T1R, then offered in a 5050 Yinding emitter which got changed to the new FFL505A before shipping.
I already have a NOV-Mu from last year, didn't see a need to get the new one. Also skipped the X1S, I don't really care about pocket throwers and only got the T1R because the Yinding emitter sounded interesting, then stuck it out to see what was up with the FFL505A.
I also snagged a couple more E12r (making a total of 4 that I own). Known quantities that I really enjoy, that I expect will never be seen again.
The E07x Canon is very well built and sustains like nobody's business, but unfortunately the beam suffers a bit once you dedome the emitters. Apparently the optic sits a bit high for domeless emitters, some have been sanding down the shelf that holds the optic in place. Not a huge thing, but a step backwards from the previous generation. Admittedly I'm super picky that way.
The T1R with the new emitter is lots of concentrated pink. Some will think it's great, others like me will find it a bit much. Seems to be a little better in the X1S.
I have high hopes for the X1L. The Zeroair review shows somewhat disappointing output compared to expectations, but the white wall beamshots appear immaculate, and that's a priority for me. And I am a huge admirer of the work Loneoceans has done designing the past couple generations of drivers.
The problem is, why would they let you buy it outright when they can rent it to you by way of a subscription?
I don't think even Christopher Nolan can stop this level of greed, that wants us to pay monthly for a fleeting second rate experience.
The movie Lifeforce enters the chat.
Granted it's barely SF, the vampires are barely (see what I did there?) vampires, and it's objectively not a very good movie. But vampires from space sucked the life from people, and it totally rocked.
Tough. I jacket-pocket-carry a Fireflies E07 2021 (non-pro) and it gets pulled out often briefly at work, but I have another Fireflies light sitting by my front door (E12R) that gets used 3 or 4 times daily for dog walks after dark and moving sprinklers around at night in the summer.
Most hours award goes to a D4Sv2 in my kitchen, it ceiling-bounces for 30 minutes every morning before dawn while I make coffee, feed the dog, make lunch etc. I just recently swapped out a tint-ramper with SST-20 2700k/4000k for a single channel with a boost driver and three 2700k with single 4000k. Good call for this usage, the boost driver lets it sit at top of ramp for said 30 minutes and barely get warm.
Not sure trying to attract people and lowering barriers to entry is the best thing to do at this point. We'll have the same dearth of quality content and more n00bs to get bored and post memes.
The slow, hard road is the way. Post stuff. High effort stuff. Respond, don't just upvote. Make this place worth signing up for.
WRT 3-2-1 I'm only part way there for my personal stuff, I haven't been willing to invest in anything offsite yet but gained some peace of mind anyway. Offsite backup for the most important stuff is in my future for sure. FWIW here's what I have, and what I did:
In order of size: 1000+ movies, a couple dozen TV series I may want to revisit, something like 10000 songs (mostly in albums), and a slew of scanned family photos and genealogy documents as well as offline ancestry databases.
In order of importance: family photos and genealogy stuff, music, movies, TV shows.
I ended up with a primary NAS, Synology 4 disk with one disk redundancy, and a second older Synology set up the same way that serves as backup. Each with battery powered UPS. The older NAS has degraded twice over about 12 years, and each time I popped another disk in and a couple of days later all was good. They do scheduled data scrubbing and I subscribe to an inexpensive SMS service that texts me when that gets done or if anything else happens.
I don't use any backup or replication software. Anything on there started on either my desktop or my wife's laptop, and we just copy it twice. Except the TV shows and the one-and-done Netflix movies, they just go to the primary and I assess later if they are in need of backup.
Hope that's useful in some way.
Looks to me like the Wuben A1. That's a $900 light with four SBT90.2 emitters, hits 20,000 lumens and throws for a mile and a half at turn-on in turbo.
Oh and the battery pack hold eight 21700 batteries.
I'm the same way, nothing but black or gray with different buttons to tell them apart.
Doctor Herbert West is peak Jeffrey Combs and I will die on this hill (having seen none of his work in proper theater).
This is wonderful. Tales From the Crypt was shown, on a projector, in the cafeteria at my junior high school in around 1976 as part of the "movie night" of a much more innocent time. Another night featured The Creeping Flesh (with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee). Fucked me right up, in a good way, at around 15 years of age.
I grudgingly admire the way the 3D wraparound tile was done. I mean it's horrible, but it's perhaps the best possible way to accomplish this particular version of horrible.
Yeah I'm sure there are plenty of people who have the sense to think it through like you did, it's just that I encounter the other type a couple times a week and felt like bitching about it.
Back-in-only spaces with the arrows pointed accordingly is sounding more and more like a superior solution.