Lume shot featuring most of my mechanical watches I really don´t like when reviewers charge the lume before a lume shot, but I really had to here. Many of these watches had been sitting in total darkness for weeks, so it was the only way to get a somewhat fair comparison. The watch in the middle is a T25 tritium watch for comparison. So, should I reveal which is which, or anyone up for a watch quiz? Edit: image path updated because of sharing issues
Are these all just 'basic lume' shots, or are some these tritium too? I've noticed, that sometimes price has absolutely no-bearing on lume-quality. Sometime, you'll buy an 'expensive watch', and the lume is just lacklustre.
It’s all regular lume, except the one in the middle, which is a 2 year old mb-microtec T25 tritium watch, that I included as an intensity reference. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Tritium watches always seem to have less luminosity vs. recently "charged" non-trit watches.....but an hour or so later, it's a different story.
Sure, it wasn’t my point to make tritium look bad, it´s just that with photography you can make any lume look as bad or great as you want by adjusting exposure. Most watch people know how tritium performs, so it´s only there as a reference for the exposure. I really don´t like freshly charged lume shots, so it was kind of stupid of me to submit one myself, but I thought it would be fun to do a comparison and I didn´t have much time. The ones with the best lume comes out on top here too, but I think the difference would be more pronounced if I waited for some time. I´ll try to do it again, and take several pics over a few hours with identical camera settings. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Anything that adds to the discourse on this forum is welcomed by me, and I'm sure many others here. I appreciate all those who take the time to contribute photos, and other insights regarding their cherished gear.
I'm am in the 'pro-tritium' camp. One of the reasons, I bought this Deep Blue example, and my Luminox watches.
My only two. Both solar, sapphire, atomic reception. Citizen has a titanium bracelet if I ever need to dress it up. I mostly wear the protrek while I'm working and the citizen my weekends. Sent from my Moto Z (2) using Tapatalk
