I finally picked up my lens today. It is a very dark green but when lit it doesn't look quite so dark. I was kind of surprised that there's no brass on this one. It this how the real lens looks? Is the real lens so dark? The base doesn't match the others either as it's kind of reddish. The adapter is a great idea but this lens still flashes too fast. The real light flashes every 10 seconds. If we can get a slower flash on Stratford Point why can't we get a more realistic flash on a lens? I tried exchanging the flashing bulb with one of the non flashing bulbs from another lens but it quit on me. I know I did that successfully between the "battery only" lenses. So now I am short a bulb for the 4th order lens. I was thinking I could rotate the 2nd, 3rd and 4th order lenses on the adapter powered base. Isn't the 3 volt adapter equivalent to the batteries? Why should it blow my bulb???