Yes they do seem to have a smell...lol...always wondered about that. Its not like im going to use primaries, mostly rcr's but just in case i need a primary i would also like for it to work as well.
Well i guess im just going to have to wait for mine to get here...lol. Thanks Don for checking .
I used to share a flat with a guy who loved the smell of Kodachrome film (Sadly no longer available - it was wonderful stuff). He could date the stuff by the smell of it. He got through a LOT of film. 6-10 rolls a day wasn't unusual.
I like the smell of CR123 primaries - just don't buy them.
Taking pics is easy. I've been doing that for more than 40 years - I'm 50 this year. Made my first print when I was 11. Spent much of the 70's and early 80's in darkrooms. '78-'84 my main source of income was printing pics for people.
However, making sense of what they are telling you is hard....
As is taking good pics.
As George Bernard Shaw wrote roughly a century ago, "Photographers are like sturgeon fish - 1,000,000 eggs for one good result."
Here's another stupid question. What do you mean by primaries?
Hi Don! That pic of the Aurora AK-P7 on High looks like the sun popping through the clouds. AWESOME!
Primaries are non rechargeables.......one time use only batts.
Oh ok, salamat pare.
But of course Pare.......try to stick with rechargeables, since i know that you have plenty.
Non-rechargeable cells.
A secondary cell is rechargeable, a primary one isn't. A cell is a single unit - what most people call a battery. Strictly speaking, a battery is a collection of cells - your car battery is made up of 6 lead-acid cells. An AAA alkaline is a single cell - a 9V battery is made from 6 1.5V cells
Thanks guys!
That just happened to be the most powerful light nearby. I own several lights more powerful than that. But in thick fog there is no point in playing with really high powered stuff. All you will see is the reflection of the beam.
Looking at it again, it looks like the light from a UFO getting ready for an abduction. 
Majestic shots there! Thanks for sharing them!
Hey Don do u have a link to this AK P7 i looked on d extreme but there loads on there
Hi Charles
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12588
I bought it a couple of years ago now - there may be better options nowadays. I still like it though.
Actually what is called in the Doric (local dialect) "smoorin". The sort of weather that can't make up its mind whether it wants to be thick mist or rain,
Varapower on high - though the cells need topping off
With the light 2 metres above the camera. Less light gets reflected straight back that way. But it does make it hard to press the button to set off the camera without shaking it - hence the blurring.
RQ thrower
MRV Clone
Piritlight SG-L8 (MC-E). Why does anyone put a quad-die in a thrower?
Forgot the control and Trustfire F25 on high with a 14500
Control
Trustfire F25
Damn that MRV clone is better in throw than even the KD RQ. Hope mine from buyincoins is going to be similar.
That's not quite the case - this is only at 50 feet in a heavily light attenuating atmosphere - but it did do a lot better than I expected it to.
The hot spot is quite a bit larger so won't have the range of a true pencil beam like the RQ. However, the MRV is a much more useful general purpose light and runs for ever on low.