Hi folks. Looking forward to chatting with you all!
So I’m a newbie here, but I was a flashaholic back years ago. I forget exactly when…. but it was roughly from when XP-G was the new kid on the block in production lights, through until XM-L started to get popular. I was a big fan of small but throwy lights so scooped up some nice pieces with XR-E LEDs, and a few other bits and pieces, but started to lose interest becasue it seemed as though most of the manufacturers were going off down a path of sacrificing throw in order to be able to write a higher number of lumens on the box. Anyway, recently I was out camping with a few friends and someone showed me an Imalent LD70. I saw how much things have moved on since then, and now I’m back! The recent Olight store sale came at just the right time, too! :innocent:
Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone! I’ll be sure to check out all your recommendations…. and as it happens Th558 I had already pricked up my ears about the Emisar. I’ve been a knife collector since the dawn of time and one of my favourite reviewers did a video about it saying how you careful you have to be…. which I heard as “look how much fun you can have with it”!
Welcome to BLF!
You’ll probably be sorry about your wallet in no time though - lots of us are, but, well… Someone should start the flashaolics anonymous i guess.
For small, throwy lights you’re now looking at Osram white flats, roughly speaking the 1mm squared (1mm2) is akin to a dedomed XR-E but with more power, the 2mm2 is akin to an XR-E but with muuuuch more power.
The XP-E2 is still relevant for small throwers and the SST-20 is an XP-G sized LED which comes in 95CRI flavours up to 4000K but still produces a nice pointy beam which is a bit tighter than the XP-G.
Obviously there’s a lot more going on once we start talking about bigger hosts.
I really wish Imalent would get on top of their QC issues, I had an Imalent faulty from new and know of a few people whose Imalent lights have failed, all different issues.
Saying that, I do really like my Imalent LD70, even though the 4000lm is a bit pointless, kills the battery. Fingers crossed, it doesn’t fail on me