Guys I see that you are not familiar with this design so I will talk about this:
This is Dereelight focusing system. They copy-pasted Dereelight which is pretty expensive aspherical flashlight.
But they did not only copy pasted they also improved it.
- So now you have mono main tube without redundant parts (Bibihang from this forum is well familiar with redudant parts dereelight uses :) ),
- Finger swappable brass pill
I don't know yet... But if they managed to get Dereelight lenses vendor; lenses should have at least 20% more throw than older 15.. series(1503, 1504 etc.)
Derellight has much better lenses than Uniquefire and now we got to see if they use same lenses as in 15.. series or new better one.
Edit: More about focusing system: This focusing system does not have stop for fully focused beam like 15.. series have. It is normal to go in overfocus or underfocus with this system if you want. But in my experience if they really use Dereelight lenses it will probably not have very good defocus mode(flood mode). So maybe it will not be as good as real zoomie flashlight. We yet have to see that.
15.. Series of flashlights have much better flood mode + they have focus stop and faster focusing action than my Dereelight flashlights.
But anyway I would chose this dereelight system over 15.. system anytime.
Hi, been not around BLF for quite some time (due to some personal issues) until one of my flashaholic friends informed me about this new Uniquefire zoomie.
Yes, as what luminarium iaculator said the Xsearcher has redundant parts which is what I don’t like about them. I used to work on my friend’s Xsearcher, and the neck assembly is just ridiculous to say the least - Those who have one or at least seen one know what I’m talking about.
I have not seen the teardown of this new Uniquefire light yet, but from the pictures it looks like everything is quite straight forward, which is a good thing for modders… and did I mention that the 74mm lens is really something? I was able to mod and produce 400kcd with my 1405 (which has 66mm lens), so with this 74mm lens I believe it can easily achieve 500kcd, or even 600kcd when properly tuned.
I would like to know what is the driver diameter that the pill can accept? Hopefully it can accept something around 21mm.
15.. Series of flashlights are chunkier so yes this new light should be much lighter than them.
But 15.. series, especially smaller brothers are not bad either. They are real zoomies with fast focusing action with over-focus stop.
Dereelight system does not have fast focusing action, neither it has overfocus stop neither it has nice flood beam so if this new series is identical copy of Dereelight maybe it will not be for everyones taste.We will see.
I am almost sure that 17mm buck drivers will be used in default flashlights.
Friend it is completely different pill (except black retaining ring). And is brass one. Looks better than 1504 pill? :)
I hated the fact that pills are not interchangeable with 15.. series flashlight... This one will be used in all head sizes :), and if someone have need to solder led emitter to pill will be more than happy to hear this.
24 hour flash group buy is in this thread. Here is your chance to piggyback on my order and be one of the first to get this light. Sorry, but this is for US people only. Told y’all I was working on getting these!!!
Thanks djozz. Life just sometimes gets in the way of fun. I’m back, maybe not as much as I was before, but back all the same. I have several lights I need to build and review. I asked for this light from Uniquefire 8 months ago. Nice to see they are finally listening.
74 mm is the head diameter, not the lens size, correct? How does this compare to the 1504? Just can't find an accurate measurement posted here on BLF - GearBest says 7 cm for head diameter, but who knows how accurate that is.
Alibaba says for the 1504 a 67 mm lens, 71 mm head diameter, so this light's 74 mm number is the biggest. Is this the biggest convex zoomie then, at least reasonably priced one?
Alibaba site shows about 16 different flavors of the 1508 and the head sizes are all mixed up. The big head, shows 74mm and 75mm, in different descriptions. I don't think they have a clue as usual. I contacted Shenzhen last night and got a response from "Ruby" about shipping me a sample for review. I will probably go ahead and get one with all the heads, the extension and an extra pill and do a video review of it, if the shipping is reasonable. Probably at least 2 weeks or longer from now, if it happens.