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I’ve got to say that I’ve really warmed up to my S43, no pun intended. I was concerned starting 10 minutes after I ordered it if the heat management would make the upper brigthtness levels too unusable for me, but the more I use it, the more I like it. One of my favorite things about it is how diffuse the beam is. It does have a hot spot, but the light fall-off into the surrounding area is a lot more gradual than any of my other flashlights that are this bright. It’s just a little less floody than if it had a fully frosted front lens.
I also have a D4S and at similar brightness levels, the beam of the D4S is far more concentrated into a well-defined hot spot, with the brightness falling off significantly outside that circle. The D4S is great in its own right, but I have doubts that a “mini D4S” (I do not own a D4) could supplant my own S43.
To mortuus and BlueSwordM, my question is, and hopefully this helps the OP make his decision: how gradual is the transition from hot spot to spill in the D4’s beam?