Unpopular Flashlight Opinion Thread

Prove me wrong (meme) :

Of course, if you pick up that flashlight in the dark and all it does is vibrate, maybe you were in the wrong drawer.

People who believe color temperatures above 5700k are good, are wrong.

People who prefer rosy tints above 90CRI(except for Cree XP-G3/.2/XP-L2), are wrong.

Some people spend way too much money here.

[quote=BurningPlayd0h]

[quote=elbakan1]

a) PFlexPro is closed because they have a big order and don’t give a damn about the retail biz.
b) Malkoff is a parts supplier turned manufacturer. Very expensive. More than Surefire.
c) Elzetta is more expensive than Surefire too.
d) HDS makes the ugliest flashlights there are. WAY more expensive than Surefire.

I just bought a Surefire Fury Tactical (1500 real lumens) for 139.95.
Is that expensive?.

Cheers.

That’s what I said for ages, usually about my Barbie Pink WK50. Nice satiny finish, looked like it was made from grandma candy.

First……you made me look up Barbie Pink WK50……yeessh

Second……I rather not mess with grandma candy……

What? Ain’t that bad. Only GB calls it “plum”. Eh, whatever.

One of the few AA lights I can recall that had a FC tailswitch, great for a quick flash’n’dash.

The revolution has begun. Nobody borrows my pink powertools or flashlights. :sunglasses:

And yes, Maglites rocks! (with a lot of mods of course)

I had a pink TI 84 back in college. It was great cause everybody has a black Ti 84 and I could always tell mine apart. Then someone stole it :frowning:

“The Usual Suspects”

Pay particular attention to the suspect on the right. Body language can be a tip!

No joke, back when I had my work notebook/agenda, I only wrote on it with two Bic pens I’d found abandoned inside library books - one purple, one bubblegum pink. They NEVER went missing from my pen cup, unlike the blues and blacks. Even leaving them on top of my otherwise empty desk yided no “yoinks”.

We here say it in jest, but it’s a legitimate life hack :smiley:

Wrong. QTC is example of a ramping UI that involves neither clicking nor waiting.

Yes, it is.

You are right but ramp up and down several times in a raw and report back if you have lower brightness immediately. I remember QTC experiments done here and I remember that you had to wait for the QTC material to recover from compression before having lower brightness. :stuck_out_tongue:

Just checked. As far as I can tell, it ramps down immediately. Maybe because construction of the light that I tried (CRX mod) prevents overcompression.
QTC is very finicky around firefly mode but othat than this - the only feature I miss in QTC lights is battery check.

You know that in the first place it was a joke about the more and more popular anduril/narsil ramping UI that involve a switch to work, but if you are considering QTC and rotary, you are right and i’m wrong.
Those UI are brillant in themselves for mimicking/imulating a QTC/rotary, its admirable but sometimes the fact that you have to wait for, then pass and miss the “right” brightness you need : click-hold “oops too much”, click-hold “oops too low”, click-hold…makes it less straight-forward than an UI like Bistro. Too much choice in brightness settings. Then you will say that anduril can be configured with stepped ramping. Darn, ToyKeeper is good at making my joke irrelevant.
But again it was just a joke about smooth ramping UI using a switch.
Well forget it.

This is untrue because no HDS lights are in mokuti. Mokuti is the ugliest thing you could possibly do to a flashlight.

Does this mean when shot by one, you call it love taps?

“Yo m* ize gonna lav tap ya with ma pink Glock” :disguised_face:

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[quote=BurningPlayd0h]

a) The years their retail side has been open and the immediate response to emails says otherwise. Everyone’s gotta eat and I’m sure the current contract is a great one. This also says nothing about their products for the price.
b) “Very expensive. More than Surefire.” …and a proportionally better product. You get what you pay for and diminishing returns is the name of the game, especially for niche products.
c) Ditto b)
d) Good thing aesthetics are subjective and literally the last consideration for SHTF gear. Again, ditto point b)

Do people actually get excited by, and buy this stuff? Calling this a “new” flashlight should be illegal.