Back in the days it probably all began with my dads MagLite 3D, which was so super awesome bright (silly me). Then about 10 years ago I bought my first Led flashlight, which had a great runtime, but not too many lumens
As they say, time passes by pretty fast and I had nearly forgotten my interest in torches; then, one day, my car broke down literally in the middle of nowhere, and all I had to take a look at the engine was a small, crappy keychain light. After hours of work, when I finally returned to my home, I decided to look up some lights on the net, and I stumbled across all these “strange” batteries, like 18650, saw some YouTube videos and so on . . .
At the beginning, I wanted flashlights just to see during the night while I was fishing to avoid an accident walking on the rocks etc, but once I started trying some XXXfires, I wanted more throw, more power, more flood, more runtime,more comact, cheaper, with a better finish, with a nice driver, with multiple emitters, and maybe more things I cannot remember haha.
I like flashlights because I’m amazed by the technology since LEDs are invented. And I can show them off to my non flashaholic friends and they would go “Wow”.
I recently got into lights thanks to getting into night riding on my new mountain bike. First it was a cheap and nasty 4 led plastic flashly light, now I have an ametuer collection of 7 high powered xml flashlights after 1 month of discovering this forum!
Of course it isn’t entirely practical, driving around at night in Vietnam isn’t safe. Other than that I just love these things, they feel and look so cool!
The mystery light, Shadow JM05, something about wolf being written on the tail cap seems to spring to mind…
I like flashlight, just because that's the way it is. It's just in me. Has been ever since I was a kid (cheap incans), college (mags), first jobs (halogens), unemployment period (cheap $0.60 LED lights), and now a bit steady in the older days (XM-Ls & Li-ions... alright!). Life is good.
I like flashlights because I love making night into day, love it since I was a kid and eventually loved it more when I took mountain hiking as a pastime. I already done two solo night trek just to use/test my lights. :bigsmile:
so the first thread was a joke/test to estimate the number xD
….reading the rules again I got what mean RSVPd damn I feel so dumb xD
gl to me, and bad luck to others …just in that game
mmh if win, AND Italy will defeat Germany tonight xD I will giveaway the light*s*(probably I’ll win all the 4 lots) to kreisler
I like flashlights coz are magic let you see/see better on the dark so trivial I like camping biking fishing on night so are a must… when I discovered china budget I realized that was also a cheap gift so started make comparisons and collecting some, ending appreciating technology, design, moddings ….I like to play with them xD
I thought that I like flashlights because I like photography and wanted to do some light painting. Now I don't have any time for creative photography, but I still like flashlights, even more than before! Maybe it is something else.. :)