what settings do you guys recommend? i want to take some pix of the beam spread on a sealed beam conversion i am about to do. before and after. i just bought a bosch sealed beam conversion kit marked E1. would like to take some pix of it and share with those interested. thanks!

I can't recall what my digi camera use when I snap. The important part is to whatch hot spots in beam, so that image don't get overexposed in these areas.

hey herman, just took some pix of the conversion seal beamed to h4 from bosch. not sure if its of any value to perhaps start a reference material for comparing different halogen beams?

I did same thing a while ago:

whoh.. herman.. why does it read SAE? isn't that an E beam pattern?

on a side note, i'm curious how cibie's and hella's h6054 conversion beam patterns look like. been searching online to no avail..

Above pics actually contains 4x6" Marchal (appearantly taken over by Cibie) units with halogen H4 bulb. I am amazed how good beam quality is. Image does not show it that well, but the transistion phase from bottom of beam to cutoff line is extremely smooth and gradually get more powerful. This is something I have never seen in any other headlamp. Not even modern ones.

They do conform to ECE spec. The SAE label only means they are manufactured according to standards set by SAE. SAE is an international organsation, and does not set local limitation rules like ECE and DOT do.

Herman wrote, "Above pics actually contains 4x6" Marchal (appearantly taken over by Cibie) units with halogen H4 bulb. I am amazed how good beam quality is. Image does not show it that well, but the transistion phase from bottom of beam to cutoff line is extremely smooth and gradually get more powerful. This is something I have never seen in any other headlamp. Not even modern ones."

Indeed, the Marchal lamps (for their day) were the best in the world; the Cibie lamps are direct copies. The French are good at: headlights & tires + wine & food.

here's the one from my bosch h6054 E1




just the passenger side

somehow i think my camera setting is not correct... cuz the hotspot looks to be WAY too wide in the pic. lol! plus it looks too white too... its the typical halogen piss yellow colour.

Looks great!!
I'd say: try to decrease exposure time a few notches. hot spots are over exposed.