As an alternative to a dedicated floody light, have you considered adding a diffuser to an existing flashlight? That way, you can use it either way.
For a cheap and good diffuser, I like to make them out of the diffuser sheet found inside old LCD display panels. Instead of throwing out that old smartphone or laptop, take the display apart and use the really efficient layer of diffuser film found inside.
It’s just a thin plastic sheet. Easily cut to any shape with scissors. Cut out a disc, and press it on to the end of your flashlight lens. You can use a little bit of tape to hold it in place, if needed.
It works really well to produce a nice even floody beam.
I live in the tropics near the coast and it’s around 30 degrees Celsius here most of the year and very humid. Steel rusts very fast and electronics don’t last long here.
I would love to try high capacity Li-ion batteries but I read that they don’t last long in these conditions.
I need something simple, solid, rugged, shockproof, waterproof, dust-proof, under 50 Euros and hope to get 5 years life out of it before it gets consumed by the super aggressive, hot, salty, humid weather here. Maybe I should look for a diving torch even though I don’t dive?…
Diving light (so waterproof, dustproof, and everythingproof), but unlike the regular DIV05, this one’s a mule, no optics in front, just the LED in all its floody goodness.
The ‘v’ is for video, so there’s no hotspot, spill, corona, no artifacts at all, just pure flood, so you get a nice even blanket of light for underwater videography.
Led lenser lights make almost perfectly uniform flood:
You can also zoom into a perfect spot with no spill.
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There are also certain flashlights that have a bare LED with no reflector or lens which can only do spill but have an extremely wide angle, almost 180 degrees:
I would like to add to this flood light list also Klarus G20.
Relatively small, compact and extremely powerful super wide “26650” floody light. One of those which illuminate half of a football playground. Pure flood.
Hey guys, I’m looking for a similar edc floody flashlight but I want one with a battery included. The noctigon or emisar ones don’t come with a battery and I’m overwhelmed with choices on unprotected high drain batteries and don’t know what charger I should get. I don’t care too much about lm output. 1000lm will be good enough for me. Also, need a lockout function.
