If you created the ultimate light, capable of producing an infinite amount of your preferred light quality in the perfect beam pattern for your intended use, at will, out of thin air, with the whole mechanism stored in another dimension so it has no volume or weight, we wouldn’t like it, because there would be nothing to look at or collect, only results.
What use are results?!! We want collectibles, and we want them in a rigidly defined schedule of unpredictability.
The prototype’s pretty much the same size as the last one. Neal’s just got a talent to find unflattering angles As soon as we get it in our hands we’ll post some more pictures and details.
I think that is just an optical illusion. I thought the same thing when I first saw that picture above.
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The below is taken from the first post & gives a very good size comparison photo.
The FW3A
Small elegant EDC triple flashlight designed by Fritz15
Runs on a single 18650 battery.
94.8 × 25.5 mm
First prototype:
Size reference:
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. Proto 1 (post 1) vs Proto 2 (M4DM4X picture above)
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It looks like the main external design difference between 1 & 2 is the addition of a small taper in front of the tailcap on #2.
The person holding the light has small hands, so the light appears bigger than it really is.
M4D M4X doesn’t have a prototype… or tiny hands. Neal got excited and sent pics to several people.
The photos seem to be taken from up close where there is a lot of perspective distortion, which makes it look weird.
The finish looks pretty odd in the photos, so we’re waiting to see it in person. Maybe the final product won’t be anodized, or maybe it’ll have more traditional anodizing, but … hopefully it won’t look like today’s unflattering photos.
With any luck, proto2 should show up soon for testing, hopefully with the internal changes completed as requested.
I’m not bothered by the taper; I just don’t like this sort of finish. In an ideal world, it’d be the same sort of finish as the blf 348; of course this is a different thing.
I find bare aluminum transmits heat to my hand much faster than anodized aluminum. The result is hot-rodded high-lumen lights are much less practical. I have to ramp down earlier to avoid burning my hand.