Very nice to see the SFT40 out-throw the mystery emitter, and with better tint!
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For tint ok, but out-throw, no.
The Uhi 40 beam profile is unique and much more pleasant than XHP 35 HI/SFT-40 at use.
Superior to the point that it also multiplies the disappointment of such a horrible tint 
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I hope it’s just the white-balance mangling things, but the Nitecore seems to have a horribly piss-yellow beam. Is it?
The hotspot should be a function of what range you’re mostly going to be looking at things.
Farther out, you want a tighter pencil-beam for max throw and to (necessarily) put more light on the target
At intermediate ranges, as long as it’s bright enough, a wider hotspot is fine for a better field-of-view.
Close in, you want a spready beam if not a hugely floody beam. With diffusion film, even.
When I’m on a blood-hunt looking for skeeters in the house, my TS10 is about right, but even a “floody” IF23 was too narrow a beam. And that '10 burns down the 14500 way too fast.
When I was comparing my CatMini vs the IF…22A?.. the wider beam didn’t really buy me much, but the better brightness did. More oomf downrange won it for the IF. I wouldn’t have minded the tighter beam of the CatMini, but the lux just wasn’t there.
Does anyone know the actual pronunciation of “Cyansky”?
Rusty says it almost like “sea’n’sky”.
I say it “sy-ANN-skee”, like Monica Cyansky and her blue dress.
Some others say it sort of like “cyan sky”, as in not quite blue overhead.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard 2 people pronounce it the same way.
I like the design of the Nitecore better.
It’s just that, when you look up on a nice day.
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Yes, that Uhi40 is dingy and yellow-ish on most, except the highest, mode. So that is a thing.
Yeah, I don’t get Nitecore. If they ain’t chasing lumens by using the iciest blue emitters possible, they swing the pendulum way over and come out with a piss-yellow emitter instead?
I reeeeeeeeeeally like my MH20W, but that’s an anomaly. Their idea of “warm” is barely neutral.