By looking at your collection you obviously have been around lights like I have only all of my other lights are big guns and expensive ones down to the little ones but still from reputable manufacturers.
All I am saying is be careful what you say as “TACTICOOL” still sounds to me like a sarcastic remark in my book and most others I am sure.
With your vast experience in the flashlight field you should know better after probably sending a lot of replies to other members that words can hurt or be taken the wrong way.
I still think it was a put-down by you but maybe you are too big in this field to humbly admit that what you stated in your reply could be sarcastic and probably a put-down to a new member that you thought knew nothing much about the flashlight field or anything technical.
I have had a love and used a lot of flashlights in my trades, flashlights are a necessity to get light into places without intrusion around live production stages and TV studios especially and crawling over big multi purpose theatrical buildings doing maintenance or crawling under desks doing IT work.
As far as optics are concerned I learned a lot about that field when I earned a University Degree in photography while I was a a photographic enthusiast and developed a business taking photos specialising in low light situations like live stage productions and also fast shutter stuff like sports.
I did it with a mate of mine using old time film and slide film in black and white for special purposes to convey a theme or colour using the best Canon gear and processing using Fuji equipment at that time before we changed to Digital Technology which was easy because we had done it the hard way before.
Yes we used light meters and manual settings and had to understand aparture settings, depth of field etc, medium format cameras and large format cameras for special situations that only the resolution of a large format old style film camera could give when the shot needs to be blown up for magazine use etc.
So the new boy on the block member you replied to has credentials in electricity, electronics, Information Technolgy accredited, Stage Lighting Supervisor, Photography enthusiast with my own backyard lab with the best Canon cameras and lenses that money could buy and also my vast knowledge of forums and the possible comments that can easily be taken the wrong way.
Please put your view online to me if you think I was being hard or hurting your feelings as that was not my intention.
Between you and I we should be able to help other BLF members who are less informed about these subjects as we were years ago or because they are young or just plain NEWBIES without witty careless remarks that may discourage them as that is the purpose of this Forum, isn’t it!
Good Night I am off to bed.
Cheers