Focused at 40' (the longest throw in my house, the beam is a sharp line about 27x4mm. There are a couple of faint reflections to either side of the line. The ends of the line don't appear truncated, but it's hard to tell. I'll need to set up an outside throw to tell more.
I'll take a couple photos tomorrow when there's more ambient light so blue doesn't just blow out my camera. Even just at threshhold, it's too bright.
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dsli_jon
Hey C -
.. not really, *test*, per-se, just more of a 'verification' / hearing others' experience with them,
within-PL (cause we are all more shooting for 'projector-optimal' results, and understand 'issues' for scanning / graphics, etc vs 'other' applications / uses for these... 
ie:, what is the beam-
shape really-like, with the se 405-glass's at, say, 150'-200'-ish? 500'? Do they, in-fact' 'help' with 'shaping' at-all, since the 'examples' I saw, posted, seemed-to be using an integrated 'aperture' of-sorts, inside... so it does not appear to 'shape' as much-as 'chop' the beam-down,
then collimate...
Findings?
Other lenses out there? Who has found the 'best-overall' collim vs shaping -
singular-solution
(I mean, w/o prism-pairs, fibers, etc...), even if a multi-element-lens... eager to hear wide-range of opins / results..
peace...
j
suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
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....and armed only with his trusty 21 Zorgawatt KTiOPO4...
and as you move the lens' ever-so slightly (...you knew all those years spent playing "Operation" as a kid would pay-off:..."it takes a verrrry-steady hand!...." 
