Very VERY awesome video ChibiM. What were your personal thoughts from the first person user perspective while doing this comparison? What did each light make you feel and get a sense of visually from where you were standing?
This is an absolute essential video. I don’t have enough throwers to do one. But the community needs a video so people can see what people mean at every level when they say “this a thrower”. Apparently throwers can range from 300 meters to 3000. And your video is one of the best I’ve seen at helping to visually understand the difference of something wildy different, but with the same candela. I think doing a comparison where Osrams, SBT90’s, Xhp, SST20, BM35A, Xpl-Hi are all in different hosts from big to small, thats pretty vital too. I know you can find stuff sparsely and scattered, but a clean cut of an SBT90 from the MC13 and KR1 all the way to the MF05. And also from close to far range so one can understand the real world usability and beam profiles, just isn’t out there.
Totally not saying you have to do it, just saying it’s something you have to mostly pay to learn right now. I just got my first LEP (Astrolux WP4), and I did end up actually loving it. And for more reasons than I expected. I hoped for certain things, and did end up getting them, which was very nice. For instance. I really wanted the Astrolux WP3/Mateminco FW1 because it has killer throw. But I was worried that it would only be fun to point at really far things. Now I still don’t have one, but I’m pretty sure I’m right, to an extent. Actually, playing with it like a lightsaber would probably be awesome too, but I digress. One thing I was worried about was a beam so tight that you needed to point it at things 500-600 yards plus to enjoy. That is probably the WP3. For instance, when you hit the tower with the Weltool, the size is about what I imagine my WP4 would look like if that tower were 200-300 yards closer. So obviously I lose throw, but end up having more usability from the user perspective at closer, yet still long ranges. I can point my smaller LEP at a person 30 feet away, and light up from their head to their waist just about. Thats actually pretty awesome. It’s like a real spotlight but in your hand. Doing a sweeping search of things at 30-40ft range is actually pretty great too. You can control exactly where you want the light to go. Point is, I may still want a 3000 meter thrower LEP, but I know that the more usability will really be in the 1200-1300 meter range LEP’s. Similar to how the 700 yard SBT90’s are more usable for closer throwing ranges.
At this point, I honestly already lost the thread of my first point, but lets see if I can tie it all up.
You video was FKN awesome and extremely enlightening. We need more content like that, because getting a thorough visual of how each emitter will behave in different hosts in real-world use is the ultimate thrower comparison content. Because from what I’ve paid to learn so far, all throwers have something to offer at different levels. And with throwers, the name of the game is compromise, Farther equals narrower, and wider equals less intense. So why not have all this documented and easily reference-able. I still have yet to get into the High CRI throwers, but knowing how they work compared to other throwers for instance, would be a good way to help decide what may work well for what different people need. I still don’t think I’ve seen the perfect video breaking all this down. But I know if it were to exist, it would look a lot like your video. So Thank you and very nice job helping us feel the differences of two very different throwers that “throw” the same.
