I think he is referring to this release: ✌ FREEME - ASTROLUX MF01S 15000lm Flashlight Group Buy - ENDED, in regards to the D18 comparison. He’s right about the delays, I was holding out but got anxious and ordered the D18 2 weeks ago. Not sure when we will see either of these offerings.
The day the D18 was released it was ready for shipping in 2 weeks. Astrolux was caught off guard so to attempt to salvage lost sales potential they shotgun released the MF01S the same day despite it being almost half a year from production. They then decided to release the MF01 mini that same day also, again being months away from production.
The D4S is a competitor to the E07 as will this MF01 mini be
The D18 is just a better, smaller version of the nearly identical MF01S
The D18 was announced March 14 and was ready to ship in 2 weeks
The two MF01 variants were announced March 14 but the GB for the MF01 mini was scheduled for April & the MF01S GB was scheduled for May
Now here we are May 3 and the GB for the MF01 mini Hasn’t even begun._.
The MF01 mini probably wont ship until June possibly even July._ the MF01S could easily take until July or August._.
It’s just seriously annoying they announced a Pre-Buy 3 and 4 months early (Minimum!)
Ya. What Matt said. I got anxious again and pulled the trigger on a D4S. Mostly because I prefer the aesthetics and it seems to have a better reputation. And Magnets.
Copper would be cool but theyve never done more than edc’s with a copper main body, the bezels and batt tubes were stainless steel. Id still love that also but it hasn’t ever launched on a med/big light before so i wouldn’t hold my breath.
I cant see it having much if any additional output given it and the E07 both use a single cell set-up & FF is already driving the leds hard. The 26650 runtimes however should be a big improvement
Interested! 
I own a raw alu E07 with purple aux LEDs in SST20 5000K and it’s one of my favorite lights. It actually has replaced my S1R as my edc. Most would never edc a 21700 light but for me it’s just on the edge of being too big for edc.
It’s a gen 2 so the quality is great
I don’t own an emisar yet but I have three in the mail right now, D4S being one of them. It could’ve replaced my edc slot but there’s no pocket clip for it. I doubt the D4 on order will be good enough to take the E07s spot but who knows. Emisar makes absolutely fantastic products that are of the same quality as the biggest brands out there. Astrolux and FF are what you call premium budget lights.
Hopefully the MF01 mini ships before my Birthday on June 22 and it can be one of my bday present lights! Lol I have a feeling it won’t be shipping by then though. Theyre still not even solid on the FT03 which was announced all the way back in January
Interested
I know what you mean, my FT03’s barely shipped today.
Did you get a NW? I hope so because they had tons of problems with the NW but the CW have been shipping ok so far.
I say ok because I received my CW two weeks ago and it was DOA. BG was good about it and gave me a full credit. I re-ordered last week and it shipped this week so I really hope yours was a NW
On that note however, I do like that I ended up with a host as I’m going to convert it to a white flat 1mm once Levels new drivers are ready.
452k candela… count me in! 
Lol, I ordered one of each. Curious to see how they compare.
The DQG tiny 26650, TIR lens, 7 LEDs, e-switch, exists since about mid-2016.
The ROT66 should have been design without a batteries carrier to avoid contact problem, will be solved with version 2. The PL47 battery tube lenght wasn’t that good, low grade TIR lens from mold defects. FireFlies ruined the thermal management/thermal path of the E07 version 01. Premium for the price, not for the design and QC yet.
Astrolux has messy assembling in general, even with thermal paste or soldering paste/flux projections on LED’s dome. Cold solder joints, etc. Their QC sucks.
interested
Now when the E07 CU version was relased which did not look that appealing I am very close to order E07. so I hope we will see some pictures of MF01 Mini soon…
I was not aware of this light, the head is very similiar to E07 for sure… I guess the main difference is the battery…
i consider E07 size EDC size… A CU version of the mini would be great… but lets see how the heat management is on standard version…
CU version of E07 was released just some days ago… we have yet to see actual numbers of the difference that the Copper head make…
Also… heat path should be better with the latest E07 also since they have improved the manufacture processing… I assume they have figure out the right amount of thermal paste now ( not too much and too little).
E07 is released in copper, and people want copper… so I think Astrolux need to offer it too even though they have only done it for smaller flashlights in the past.
I doubt that the e07 in copper will do anything better, i have the e07 in 4000k sst20 and it gets kinda hot on highest atleast the head that u dont want to touch it really it feels to hot just, with copper it will be even warmer which is maybe good because it transfers heat away from emitters, but how are u supposed to hold the light? u cant… need gloves then so kinda pointless imo… host would have to be alot bigger somehow for it to work better.
lol exactly!
Olight, Fenix, Acebeam etc. multi emitter 2500+ lumen flashlight? Anywhere between $125 - $250 (example)
Astrolux, Haikelite, Fireflies etc. multi emitter 2500+ lumen flashlight? anywhere between $50 - $75
I’ll take the latter all day long and put up with the handful of potential issues one expects to encounter.
If only the super premium brands existed my light collection would be growing by one every two months instead of an average of two per month
They’re also the ones driving the competition and forcing innovation. Just look at Emisar who’s smack in the middle with a solid price and rock solid quality. Olight still wants to put out 1500 lumen max 18650 lights while Emisars like, how about 4000?
Despite the majority of my lights consist of Emisar, Fireflies, Mateminco, and I like most of them, one thing that I can only find in premium brands is efficient regulated driver, despite they are not as bright. Sometimes I want efficiency (longer runtime) and constant output for practical applications. Even Wuben made a very efficient and stable driver for the new TO50R EDC that actually measures 3k lumens on turbo from my measurements. Maybe Emisar, Fireflies, Mateminco should start looking into making fancy buck/boost driver lights in the less than $100 range.
Interested