I am new to the flashlight world. And I am a little confused why people would buy LEPs at costs hunders of dollars, if chinese marketplaces sell $30 LED flashlights with telescopic zoom that can focus a floodlight to a pencil thin beam. Are they different in look, performance, function, lumens/watt? And strangely, the sellers sometimes say that these flashlights with telescopic zooms (can do both wide and pencil beams) are actually lasers (mostly 30 watts). So, why don’t expensive LEPs from Astrolux and Acebeam have telescopic functions for their flashlights, so their LEPs can be more useful for actual use?
I apologize if it seems I am asking lots of questions. But it seems it is because I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is I don’t know about LEPs vs LED flashlights that make them same/different…