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Well, maybe not allā€¦ myself and Tom Tom may not have the cash out and ready to throw just yet. :wink:

Yeah yeah yeah, I know, right? Me and Tom Tom on the same pageā€¦ sometimes stuff just happens.

And then tatasal tortureā€™s me with pics of that sweet old MaxToch SN6X-2X! :person_facepalming:

Speaking for myself, Iā€™m on the interest list for one light, but Iā€™ll more than likely be buying 2-3 more after the initial rush. Plus, Iā€™m quite sure all my friends are gonna want one when they see mine. I think you could figure on 5-6x more demand than what has been voiced here. Not to mention other retail sales from recommendations on reddit or wherever else. I hope thatā€™s motivation enough to get this into production ASAP. This flashlight will be a gold mine for those selling them.

55 posts, many of them tense, in about 12 hours because, after bemoaning the lack of photos or other updates, we (collectively) didnā€™t recognize a thread relief when a photo was finally posted.

Iā€™m starting to think this thread should be locked until the light is ready to ship.

I donā€™t think these donā€™t look like the same bodies/tubesā€¦ where did the first image come from?

Oh well, sorry for that.

The tortureā€™s going to end my friend. Letā€™s make a deal: PM me your mailing address, and my MaxToch SN6X-2X(Vn) will be on its way to you.

Everythingā€™s on me, Merry Christmas!

Please add me for one! :slight_smile:

P.S.: The light looks great!

Agreed, quite different. Yet more questions than answers. Again.

Guessing that is only TKā€™s proto2. It seems we are now up to at least 3 , or even 4, and so it still seems to keep on evolving, at least in some peopleā€™s dreams.

Yeah but that wasnā€™t all i wrote:

So it seems the warmest tint is somewhere in the middle of the range (from very low to very high).

Okay, iā€™ll look for that among the esoteric graphs iā€™m not initiated for. :wink: :smiley:

Gimp rocks. :+1:

On my list of things to learn :slight_smile:

GIMP is very powerful, but I couldn't figure it out.

I use IrfanView for my modest image editing needs.

Photoshop is a lot easier. If you actually want to get things done, and are prepared to pay, or otherwise, obtain it.

Irfan View does the basic jobs and is lightweight. But Faststone Image viewer is far more powerful (basically a clone of ACDSee, my mainstay, and worth the money)

I like Photoshop.

I haven't learned many tricks to use it, but it is more intuitive than GIMP.

We seem to be drifting off again, how did that happen :wink:

Slow news day ?

Not complaining.

One of my favorite things about BLF is that being off-topic is usually not a problem.

Drifting off is at least half the fun here. And if you pay attention sometimes you learn something interesting


Just for the records:
The cut away is from prototype #0
Changes I know:

- tapered design

- moved O-ring(s)

  • some diameter increase

Affinity Photo is quite good for non pro photoshop users.

- one time ca. 55ā‚¬ instead of a subscription

- nearly all tools the same

  • similar workflow

Reviews are on YouTube

Edit: Some reviews about early beta version

Iā€™ve never heard of Affinity Photo. But I just looked it up and it does seem nice. Iā€™ve been a GIMP user for years. Iā€™ve never used Photoshop. Iā€™m not anything like a professional user, but I have learned how to do some moderately advanced things with GIMP. Photoshop and Affinity Photo still have quite a few very advanced features that Gimp lacks.

Iā€™ve spent time with a bunch of image editors, and have been using GIMP and Photoshop since the 1990s. I even made my own paint program / image editor once, designed mostly around demoscene effects. But I find GIMP suits me best, and is the most intuitive for me. Part of it is because itā€™s trivially easy to assign arbitrary keyboard shortcuts, part is because it lets my window manager do its job instead of trying to manage everything itself in a single window, and part is just that it has the types of tools I want.

In the past, Photoshop was a lot better if you needed color spaces other than greyscale or RGB, but GIMP recently overhauled its engine to fix that sort of issue. It always had a wider and more advanced variety of image-processing tools, often getting brand new stuff from SIGGRAPH long before other programs, but its core architecture has also gotten a lot more mature over time.

I wouldnā€™t use either one for diagrams or for painting though. There are better tools for those tasks, like Inkscape for diagrams and Krita for painting. GIMP is mostly designed for photo editing.

Itā€™s hard to go wrong with any decent image editor though. There is no shortage of genuinely good imaging software these days.