Solus SU-1250 LED On test

[Mrs T]

Glad to see you used the good looking diver in your video clip at Stoney!

[Janos]

Originally Posted by Mrs T

Glad to see you used the good looking diver in your video clip at Stoney!

But not as good looking as the model Chasey used in the previous Solus comparison

Janos

[Clare Gledhill]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

I want it for reliabuility over all else.

You're doing a cave course. I think you'll find it very, very unreliable. Mine always seemed to be when I did courses although strangely they seemed to become very reliable again afterwards

[Keiron]

Mark, quick question?

Were the side by side photos all taken with the same fixed camera settings, or did you let the camera choose the exposure?

[JasonP]

Originally Posted by Clare Gledhill

You're doing a cave course. I think you'll find it very, very unreliable. Mine always seemed to be when I did courses although strangely they seemed to become very reliable again afterwards

Yes, you never seem to see a cave on the way out, only ever on the way in.

Jason

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Keiron

Mark, quick question?

Were the side by side photos all taken with the same fixed camera settings, or did you let the camera choose the exposure?

No i fixed the settings on manual to avoid auto flash kicking in

Camera set at ISO200 Auto White balance off flash off and -2/3 exposure to avoid bleaching. Thats why you lose the peripheral light in the dry shots. On full exposure it just burnt out the screen.

Camera was a Canon Ixus 750

ATB


Mark

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Clare Gledhill

You're doing a cave course. I think you'll find it very, very unreliable. Mine always seemed to be when I did courses although strangely they seemed to become very reliable again afterwards

I cant beleive my instructor will be that nasty. He seems such a nice person


ATB

Mark

[neilh]

Can't green you Mark so have a virtual one for an interesting review. I look forward to hearing how you get on with it on your course.

Originally Posted by Digger

We have been let down again. All this info on new products coming out, and not the merest sight of a plastic bird.

Are you sure?

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

You might need to turn the brightness up a touch, but I'm sure there's something sinister lurking in the bottom right of that shot...

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by neilh

Are you sure?

You might need to turn the brightness up a touch, but I'm sure there's something sinister lurking in the bottom right of that shot...

You win the prize


ATB

Mark

[KevinJ]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your opinion on the SOLUS SU-1250. It's good to see an unbiased review. It's also good to see someone put that level of effort into a product review. Particularly the "Spot the Heron" competition

There are a few points I'd like to make.

1. The SU-1250 that was sent to Mark for testing was an early Gen2 test unit. This was set up for burn times of 2.5 hours at 100% and 5 hours at 50%.
All production Gen2 lights (SU-1250 and SU-2500) for the UK and European market are programmed with burntimes of 2.5 hours at 100% and 10 hours at 25% as standard. The performance at the 25% setting is still better than a 10 Watt HID.
The Gen2 lights sold on the American market have 100% and 50% settings at the request of the US distributors Oxycheq.
These settings can be reprogrammed during assembly for custom builds.

2. Sorry but the goodman handle is still optional - last year we dropped the price by half from 100 Euro (£75) to 50 Euro (£38) to make it less painful.
We include the battery pouch in the price for sales direct from SSP.

3. We have frozen production of the SOLUS Backup light. This was mainly due to an unexpected hike in the component costs. We're re-evaluating the Backup as a product, but for the moment we're concentrating on our primary lights.
My apologies to anyone who was considering buying one.

Regards,

Kevin Jury
SOLUS Submersible Products