Sofirn LT1S (shorty LT1 with 2700k/6500k/red?)

I ordered this lantern immediately upon learning of its availability, and received confirmation that it was shipped out (from Sofirn’s AliExpress store) on 12/3.

Today I received an update that the shipment was canceled by the seller (but no further explanation or order cancelation notice).

Anyone have any experience with this? I’ve bought dozens of flashlights from them and never had this issue.

How can a shipment be canceled more than a week after it’s shipped?

Where did you see CRI 90?

Update: AliExpress let me know it’s still on its way, they’re just sending it through Russia so I’ll get new tracking number. Hopefully this is useful information for someone out there.

As far as the high cri claim, sofirn indicated the leds are 90 cri in the comments tol their Facebook post.

That’s great news, thanks!

Sofirn gave some additional information in this thread.

I don’t know why they don’t add more details to the product listing on their website.

Finally a real camp lantern. It’s more like the Fenix CL30R than the LT1 in form design.

Very cool, and they even use a Buck Driver which should mean better efficiency.
Does anybody know what CSP1919 LED is? Is that a Samsung CPS 1.9mm x 1.9mm LED?

Anyone heard any news on these shipping or gotten one in hand yet?

No I ordered two. One from AE and one from their website.

Contacted the company via email and they believe that it does not have candle-light etc modes. Too bad, it would have made an excellent safety light for walking along roads at night.

Edit - They sent me another email saying they would “have to wait until samples arrived” before they corrected the aliexpress listing saying it has flashing modes. That seems to suggest that they actually don’t know either.

Either way, it’s not bright enough to be a primary-camp lantern unless you are solo or perhaps duo camping. Energizer makes brighter, cheaper camping lanterns. It would be ok as an individual lantern for boring people who don’t use flashing modes.

I won’t be buying one unless they make it with anduril.

I received a shipping notification from Sofirn … both of my two ordered lanterns have been shipped.

Any discount codes from Sofirn for the LT1S?

Found H7XBL8UY at check out…

Even with discount and “free” CH Post shipping approx $40 is not inexpensive…

Thinking I’ll wait for someone to actually get one in hand, and other color offering besides black

code updated $4 off --WEEU1YL2IH8Q

I’ve got a couple of these now, really like them for stability. Comparisons with the BLF LT aren’t really appropriate. It does warm/cool very easily in either ramp or step mode, doesn’t run Anduril so don’t expect any candle mode or lightning storm stuff. It does the usual signal and SOS flash.

A nice touch is being able to shut off the LEDs on one side of the lantern so the light in your face is dimmed but still projects outwards.

The red modes don’t ramp, and run at lo/med/hi, plus flashing modes. Left red on low all night and the 21700 had depleted by only a quarter. All in all, I’m really pleased with them and bought a second on the strength of the first.

Had a couple of these running for a few weeks and finding it a bit strange nobody is talking about them. I fully appreciated the huge effort of DBSAR during some hard times and thanked him personally re: the LT1 and Mini versions. He’s worked closely with Sofirn, and got excellent results. It’s thanks to him we have a Sofirn lantern designed BLF. :+1:

Personally I love the 4x18650 of my original LT1, and bought a second one. I can do Anduril, but not everyone wants all the modes. These little 21700 versions, produced in the same factory take nothing from his design. They do sport the same lantern head, but with an internal 21700 up the middle, about 40 LEDs , ability to dim one side so it’s not in your face, and 325nm red at 3 levels. Controls are simple, warm/white mix up, or red in 3 brightness, so easy.

I don’t know of another lantern type light that does this, I’m getting the impression Sofirn are being blanked by BLF because the members feel there’s a rip off of the DBSAR lantern? It’s a totally different lantern, way better than the Olight and Nitecore offerings, and ought to be talked about if only to keep the quality factory people at Sofirn producing what we want at a decent price.

There’re two other threads about the LT1s lantern too:
Sofirn New Arrival LT1S (Sofirn New Arrival LT1S)
Sofirn LT1s? (Sofirn LT1s?)

Ah, I hadn’t seen those threads, thanks.

Really neat lanterns. Did a wonderful job with the last power outage. I have two and no regerts :wink: :smiley:

I can’t understand the use case of a lantern with anduril.
Presumably these are being marketed to campers / backpackers.
Does everyone here camp alone? Because a lantern with a fidget-spinner-esque maze of a UI that requires an instruction manual would be the butt of jokes on any camping/backpacking trip I’ve participated in.
At least this one is simplified to the point it can be explained to another person in a sentence or two how to turn it up/down. The ideal solution for a lantern in general — let alone one with color tint and a bunch of modes — would be to not cram all the controls into a single button, of course.

I would agree with you that the UI on the LT1s is more practical for most people but we are enthusiasts here so Anduril is fun right? For me it’s more about memory and switching between lights. I know Anduril pretty well after a while, so it’s not so much of an issue, this one here while easy is different. The storm mode is fun too with a lantern I think.