i wouldn’t mind having one - it would have a massive amount of flood - great for blanketing an area with a nice tint…and no hotspot. that tripod mount and a gorillapod could make it a handy work or car camping light. zooming out would be for when you want to see something further out - you lose a ton of lumens…which is a waste of power…but if that’s occassional/short use, it is at least handier than carrying a second light.
the reason i won’t have one, comes down to cost. $70 is better spent elsewhere…and xml can flood well, and throw great.
You guys are probably right, I have not seen an MT-G2 zoomie. Love the tint and output though, and with the extra lumens it creates could be worth it even with the problems you outline, but probably not for the price. Still, I like this light and want one at around $37, filled out the fast tech request form too.
I have a couple of 7g5v2 (reflector head and 67mm? aspheric lens head) and I have 3 pills, sst-90 green, xml2 dedomed and mtg2
mtg2 is great with the reflector. it is kind of cool to play with the mtg2 and aspheric…(outside, the waffle pattern isn’t as noticeable, especially if you slightly defocus), but I don’t have any real use for it…
I’ve tried it both on one cell and two cells and I didn’t notice a difference. I’ll pull out my DSLR light meter and see what it says
EDIT: Confirmed. My DSLR light meter found 1% or less difference in brightness between 1 cell and 2 cell (measured in the very center of the hotspot when on full flood).
The best thing you can do is submit the Taobao link to FastTech and hope they add it to their product catalog.
I think I would feel more comfortable spending the money with YoyBuy if they took paypal. Oddly enough, their American dropship website (basically the reverse of YoyBuy) does take PayPal.
I just noticed this on Gearbest today, now I am thinking of swapping in the aspheric from the UF-T20 into this and figuring out a way to limit the sliding mechanism…then upgrading the driver to maybe 6a with a Xml-2 and this would be the perfect zooming light.
A lot of work on a pricey light…if only this existed already.
Sucks it doesn’t come with the double battery tube, this light is amazing when powered by two 26650 King Kongs I used this light almost exclusively during the last power outage (8 hours). Can be run on its highest setting without overheating, zoom feature is handy (used it on flood most of the time), feels perfectly balanced and great in the hand (with the double battery tube). Everyone kept picking this light over the SRK and other lights that were available (during the power outage).
