You are exactly right. I have found 63-110kcd is the sweet spot for throwers. Pencils beams with borderline warped emitter images in the beam pattern are next to useless.
Seeing a beam travel over 1 mile and doing light saber shots up in the sky toward constellations or not, is an awesome sight.In addition lighting up towers and Deer ect., from hundreds of yards away.These are illustrated in the few threads I have on here.
I have both the lights in your video.They are mid range lights.If they were my furthest throwing/ highest output lights, I would be depressed!
Couldn’t agree more, a certain light is closer or not to the perfect light depending on your expectations/what you wanna use it for.
When I want to light up things in my narrow garden, I want as little spill and quite a narrow beam, so I don’t annoy my neighbours. For that, my L21A is much more suitable than my FT03, even with the SST40 on it.
After further contemplation if I lived where you did or near or around the city.I would still want more throw.It would compensate for how the light pollution diminishes the beam intensity.I have seen many beam shots on here and other forums that have done nothing for me because of all the light pollution.I am grateful for where I live for that and many other reasons.
There aint a thing as too much throw, otherwise people wouldn’t buy LEP lights.
Its just that there isn’t just one perfect flashlight.
You need a dozen of lights to select from, to suit your actual need
Agreeable. After a certain point, the human eye can’t even see as far as the pencil beam is being output to, so there’s really no point other than bragging rights about spec sheets.
But what exactly is that certain point? I’d say my vision while not 20/20 is pretty good and I can clearly tell the difference between a 1km and 1.8km light. The rating just means it’ll be as bright as moonlight at the stated distance which in other words means it’ll be useless at the rated distance. For real world use I take the rating and divide it by four to get a more realistic rating. If the human eye can only see 1.2km, then you’d need a light with about 4.8km of throw to actually see things clearly at that distance. I mean you’d probably be able to see things 1.2km away with a 3km rated light but it’s not gonna be very useful at that distance.