On Kickstarter is a interesting LEP zoomie https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hightech/hand-held-long-range-white-laser-tactical-torch-flashlight.
Looks good on Kickstarter, hope the real flashlight is as good as advertised.
Once I have mine I will test & tell.
Not really a zoomie, it allows you to unscrew the head by like 20 turns in order to defocus the beam enough to make a slightly larger spot.
Thatās how they can still maintain IP68, which normal zoomies cannot do.
USB C charging and a non-proprietary 21700 cell are good design choices though.
A zooming LEP? Thatās just wrong.
Iām more curious about their numbers. 700,000 cd, but only 600m of throw?
The KR1 can out throw 600m with a smaller head.
Youāre absolutey correct. You have named 3 values (cd, m, ft) that have a FIXED relation.
I assume this company is located in the USA, so they know their feet.
Because 1 foot = 0.3048m. That makes 2,000ft = 609.6m. Calling it 600m is about correct.
For 600m throw you need (600 x 600)/4 = 90,000cd. I guess their decimal point drifted a bit off.
{To give you an impression: 250,000cd = 250kcd = 1km, 1,000,000cd = 1Mcd = 2km (BLF-GT)}
Yeah, I ran the numbers when I first heard about it, and figured it should be about 1.6km of throw at 700kcd. Another LEP, the Weltool W3 has a smaller head and also out throws this thing by almost twice (363375cd, 1205m). I canāt decide if they donāt know what theyāre talking about, forgot the 1 and a decimal when writing things up, or if theyāre being deliberately misleading.
Itās fire resistantā¦
Iām guessing other features are hogwash too?
So itās a highly throw-focused zoomie that has a badly looking, low CRI and extremely narrow flood. Furthermore zooming is extremely slow. But it probably throws better than any other zoomie of this size, even though it doesnāt look like the designers paid much attention to making it compact.
I tend to prefer flood-focused zoomie designs that have nice looking, warm, high CRI and reasonably wide flood beams, so Iām not in.
But itās a major step in the right direction and I appreciate the designers for that.
I just canāt see how this is better than the existing LEPs already on the market. I love that theyāre trying to innovate, but it seems to underperform in all metrics.
Wayyyyy overexposed images. Beware.
Being (a bit) colorblind I wonder if nobody has noticed the thick blue halo.
Seems to me this halo is not created by the laser, but in the (sub-par?) optics.
Canāt remember such a heavy set halo in the LEP-reviews of ChibiM.
About the shape, it looks like a WW-II Stielhandgranate (stick hand grenade).
A good choice, because this light comes with a Skywolfeyes battery.
So if the thing gets hot, just throw it away.
A lanyard is included, canāt see where itās attached to the light.
I noticed that halo as well. Iām used to seeing such things on aspherics and this is certainly worse than usual.
I also find this:
interesting.
Do I see spill? There should be none and they claim thereās none. But it seems to be present hereā¦
Yeah, I didnāt really notice the spill before, but I noticed it when the halo was pointed out. Itās very, very strange.
I think that is due to extremely over exposing the image to try and put more āemphasisā on the beam the background itself looks like sunrise/set which clearly it isnāt when they took the photo.
There already is one, itās damn expensive but super cool. Check our Michaelssearchlights on YT. He got one and reviewed it. Awesome precision optic lenses.
$149 to gamble on an LEP.
that is not unreasonable.
Maybe they had all the funds they needed but used Kickstarter for marketing.
Thereās better stuff out there (like the mini skylumen one)
I withdrew my support. Many others did that too.
Bought an Astrolux WP1 instead.