kevinm wrote:50% power on flood and 25% on spot would probably be nice, and it would be easy to set a mode that way. I like biased floods too. In CO, so much is small and tight, people like an all flood option.
Though I forward-bias my flood with a tiny reflector anyway, so it's brighter in the central area than a naked LED would be, I find a very small amount of spot (something of the order of 5% of the flood lumens output in a relatively tight spot beam) 'pushes out' the beam without damaging the flood feel - not really an obviously 'blended' beam as such, just a nicer flood.
kevinm wrote:I was thinking of naked [for the flood], but with one of the many new emitters that have an 80 degree beam angle (like the current Zebralights), rather than the 120 of the XM-L. I'm still looking into these, but some are high CRI too. Better color rendition with warmer light, mixed with neutral or cool XM-L for throw would be a good combo. If they turn out not to work, I'll look for some small reflectors.
I'm not sure what's around commercially reflector-wise. Bif started using some for his flood LEDs, but I can't remember if he said he was buying, buying+modifying, or having some made.
At least for experimenting to get an idea of effects on the beam, homemaking some trial ones is not hard, even if maybe a bit fiddly (there are times I wish my fingers were somewhat smaller).