A Great Little Giveaway ---- SOFIRN

I discovered your brand this year and bought first sofirn flashlight.
Personaly for me powerbank ability is gerat step for edc flashlight.
If22a is best. If22a with warm led and tail magnet.

I love your flashlight. Most of my flashlight is Sofirn brand. I have 12 sofirn flashlight + 5 sofirn headlamp.

I love that sofirn listen to the customer by giving choice in high CRI LED and features.

But the thing that Sofirn should put more importance is by making a better ATR. Sofirn also need to make more flashlight choice with regulated driver like the SP35, SP32AV2.0, old SP33V2.0, old SD05, old C8G and others. Sometime a better regulation is much better than just simple short term burst of power.

Also it would be very nice if sofirn makes a more compact AA/14500 light.
Sofirn also should consider more color for flashlight for more of the flashlight models.
The sofirn orange is great, maybe color like purple and other color. Striking or classy should be good. Even silver is more unique than all black flashlight by most manufacturer.

Looking for more great flashlight from sofirn!

Like many others have said, we need more High CRI options! I believe most Sofirn customers are flashaholics. It’s a niche market! And as always keep up the good work. Very well made lights at a fair price! This is what makes Sofirn, Sofirn! Happy holidays everybody!

First time sofirn buyer in 2021:
Pros: price, quality, responsiveness, sales/coupons are fun for retail therapy addicts like those on BLF
Cons: discontinued the c01R, I’m a bit more of a Wurkkos fan, for the reasons above, but designs are more outside the box.

I love the collaboration with the community. It makes for better flashlights and the fact that you listen to feedback and improve.

The new UI (if you aren't going to use Anduril on every single light) is great. It has moonlight, 3 modes, turbo and ramping (though the ramping could use work it seems like a linear ramp which makes it ramp way too fast through lower brightness and too slow through upper brightness). Tweak that and it's close to perfect.

I want to see not just Sofirn but other companies keep what's good and improve what's bad. There are lights that are great if not for one or two things but instead of improving those things they come out with an entirely new light with its own different set of issues. Just keep improving what you have that people love. People love the BLF SP36, SC31 Pro, and IF25A (and LT1 of course, among others). But those are what I'd consider signature lights. I don't want to see new lights I want to see those lights with higher regulation modes, more efficient drivers, different emitter choices (12V SC31 Pro would be amazing). The LT1 is the best example of this it keeps getting better but not different.

Example: I'm not entirely sold on SP10V3 being a large upgrade of SP10S. You developed a way on the SP10S to make the LH351D emitter throw by encapsulating it with the reflector. Maybe this caused lumen loss I'm not sure but on the SP10V3 now the reflector opening is larger and so is the hotspot. The SP10S has higher candela which is perceived brightness. The button is also a downgrade the old button or the SC21 button would be much better. There is a spot for a magnet on the tail cap but no magnet and no access. The UI is a HUGE improvement but otherwise I'm a little conflicted. All I wanted was an SP10S for daily carry that had a UI that you didn't have to hold for off but that's not what the SP10V3 is.

Other thoughts: use less glue (some people like to mod lights without causing damage to them), sell more components so people have options (like the orange peel reflector for SC31 Pro), and add more color (no red anymore?)

Just keep making great lights and great prices like you have been. That is all.

I second everything stated by mcflies ().

Sofirn’s ramping is too fast on low modes and too slow on high modes.

Regulation should be a must on sustainability. Having a burst of high lumens is only good for first impressions. Nothing that can be actually used. I always considered Sofirn lights to be functional and not glitter.

As for the SP10v3, I almost pulled the trigger, but what I really wanted is a better UI than the long press OFF of the SP10S.

And last but not least, if you must use glue, use little or break-away types. I can understand the warranty issue if someone tampers with the light, but there are some types of Loctite that leave a white residue when the seal has been broken. And these glues don’t clean off easily with alcohol or acetone (cyanoacrylate adhesives bind to the anodization dye). It is not only a matter of members modding their lights but the right to repair. Don’t follow Apple’s demise (although they have obliged to backtrack so recently).

I will continue to buy Sofirn lights in as long they don’t become pretentious as do some other manufacturers.

UI and temperature mgmt.

SC31 Pro, SC21, IF25A, SP40, IF22A, SC31 V2(?), LT1, others too. Used to EDC the SC31 Pro but now I carry the TS21. I like them all and will likely buy more. Offering high CRI is a good idea. The collaboration with the community is one of the smartest things to do. Keep it up and thank you for the GAW!

Sofirn must be doing something right because I haven’t purchased a light this year and I am currently thinking of purchasing a D25LR. Would be nice if it had USB-C though.

I have many sofirn light but bring back the SF10 it’s my favorite edc very durable

I really like and I’m enjoying every day, my Sofirn SD05. Keep up the good work!

BLF LT1 and high cri lights are +

IF22A looks cool, I hope Santa will bring it this year.
Mike

Pushing the boundaries of how good budget lights can be. I also appreciate the customer service, and selling of replacement parts :+1:

Also excited about the Anduril SP10s, and further work with the community.

keeping supply up during the last two years can’t have been easy and you’ve done an excellent job at it I think.

mainly here for the smaller flashlights… so good job on SP10 and refreshes

I really, really wish you bring back back C01R in 2022

I got two sofirns. They are hard to mod and the ano is to shiney and cheap lookin. Some models look good but others look like made by a completely differet company. Sofirn is like poor mans fenix. Could be worse could be better. Marry christmas.

I am in! I have 3 Sofirn lights that gets used often.

One feature that never gets used is cool white tint on LT1. Simple, single color is all thats needed.

Feature that I miss in other lights is battery voltage check.

I have a few Sofirn lights and I like them, especially the SC31 pro and BLF SP36.

I’d like to see more efficient drivers and regulation, more neutral high CRI LED options and better finish, especially chamfering of sharp edges. I’d also like to see less glue and an easy access to the light for mods.

Sells good batteries and lanterns! Hope for smaller lanterns that last long!

Thanks for doing the giveaway!

Sofirn makes some really nice products. I think the lanterns specifically are really cool. My critique is a branding/marketing one: the “logo”. The logo is pretty boring - a basic font, no kerning, looks like it just got typed out and put on the light. Even worse, the capitalization of the “S” in “sofirn” is inconsistent - some products capitalize it, and others don’t. At a minimum, the capitalization should be uniform throughout all products.

I think that slightly more interesting branding would lead to better results from a sales perspective, particularly on Amazon.

I think Sofirn SP10 V3.0 is great, I already have two old version.