Tl;Dr: The pricing, brightness, voltage immunity, size, weight, LED color properties, and pocket clip are great. The runtime, charging, and battery indicator are good. The switches, ergonomics, and UI are fair but could use a bit of improvement. The beam is too floody for my taste. The color temperature adjustment seems a little gimmicky and the inaccessible battery is a major downside. Overall, this lights sets it apart from the competition with light weight, plastic construction, a simple UI, adjustable color temperature and high-CRI.
For all the quirks, I really like this thing. It was surprising that they packed in all thiee features and the performance was really great for a plastic light!
I’m impressed too. There’s been a flood of white+UV+laser aluminum flatlights over the past couple of years that are all pretty derivative of eachother. I like what Nitecore’s doing here because it’s different. Plastic, high-CRI, different UI than most, it’s interesting instead of same-old.
