[quote=Light-saber wrote: Sofirn also has an eBay store. C01R and C01S are there for sale. “Standard” shipping from China to the U.S. via SpeedPAK included in price.
Don’t know if they ship to U.K., though….[/quote]
[quote=Marc E wrote: Thanks, but can’t see the C01R on there, just the S.[/quote]
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Hi Marc, for Sofirn’s eBay Storefront, do an advance search by seller’s user ID: sofirnlight
Both the C01R and C01S are still listed as of this moment. One can also contact the seller with questions. Best of luck!
I wouldn’t worry about AE. I haven’t had any problems with them. The search sucks but as long as you know which store you want to buy from then the rest is easy. I’ve only had one faulty item that I had to claim through AE, it was very smooth and painless. For extra protection you can use PayPal, they charge a small fee but then you have added buyer protection with PayPal. I used to use PayPal, but now use a prepaid USD credit card to save a bit on the FX. No problems.
A pleasant surprise was found in my mailbox today. Just nine days after the shipping notice from Sofirn, the little deep red light arrived today. For the price an absolute AWESOME little torch. Well packaged, two O-rings included and and even the detailed manual. I couldn’t be happier and will test it at my next telescope watch night. The spill is very even and I absolutely like the low-mid-high mode. The first will probably be enough for my purpose, high is pretty bright, even under daylight conditions. Once it’s gettin dark I will disco today!
A big thank you goes out to Lux-Perpetua, Barry and Sofirn. After the delightful LT1 now this little gem - I absolutely appreciate the fruitful cooperation between BLF and Sofirn (and of course spread the word)!
Glad to see they’re starting to turn up! You’ll have to let us know what it’s like once it gets dark :).
Mine was shipped on the 27th May, but still hasn’t arrived :(.
Yes. But matte colors, as it was planned for the C01R, are not possible for Sofirn. Dunno why. They’re all glossy. Well, maybe it’s a different red, that would be nice.
I’m not the only one in Germnany who received the light today. In the taschenlampen-forum user the_holodoc posted some nice pictures that do it pretty much justice (its really hard to make a adequate photograph because the intensity isn’t properly reflected). I’m not sure if it is allowed to link - just google: taschenlampen-forum c01r and use the link in post #124. High mode indeed gets warm very quickly.
Barry also sent me these pictures and said this is the look that represents the actual body color of C01R as real as it gets. It seems they tried to make a red that is at least a bit more saturated and darker to get as close to „wine red“ as possible. What a nice surprise! I guess the result is really good.
Thanks for the credits and many thanks to all of you for your confidence in this whole idea of a deep red keychain light. Without your interest this light would not have come to existence.
My C01R is still en route, so you will probably have the great honor to be the first to share some impressions with us on BLF. :-)
I’m flattered!
Being not completely infected with the virus, I have just a limited number of lights to compare. On the left the SP32A V2 as low as possible (XP-L2 5350-5700K), the C01R on medium power and on the right the SP40 as low as possible (XPL 4000K). I did what I could do to capture the correct color impression of the anodized C01R body.
Received mine yesterday (13/07 in Australia). Shipped on 04/07.
Great light, thanks Lux-Perpetua for the project.
The shipping is much faster from Sofirns website than the Aliexpress store.
Purchased a SP40 and it was shipped on 30/06 and still not in the country according to the tracking.
and he is including a discount. 
