I bought the Olight M2R Pro Warrior during their BF sale and I am extremely impressed. Olight is like the Apple of flashlights. Incredible built quality and feels like a high end product but does not push the limits as hard as some of the budget brands. This is the most well built, most refined flashlight I have seen to date. You just have to hold it in your hands to appreciate it. The Olight optic is also amazing in this light. It focuses the light into one large hotspot with very dim but wide spill. Although the hotspot is twice as large as similar sized lights with reflectors such as the Fenix PD36R (also an excellent light), it appears to be more intense and throws slightly farther from my visual observation, which is simply amazing. Olight’s driver efficiency is also the best out there and I’m impressed with the run time graphs I see for this light. My lumen tube also proves who stable Olight driver regulates output.
Here are some measurements I took at 2s:
Turbo, 1948 lumens, 4908K, DUV 0.0099, CRI 66.6, R9 –46, R12 36.9, Rf 66, Rg 94
2nd highest, 735 lumens, 4796K, DUV 0.0127, CRI 66.4, R9 –49.4, R12 35.3
3rd highest, 237 lumens, 4713K, DUV 0.014, CRI 66.6,
The light is rated at 1800 lumens and it’s been my experience with every Olight that they measure higher lumens than their rated spec eventhough my lumen tube calibration normally measures lower than other folks on BLF.
The only thing I don’t like about this light is the tint being too far above the BBL (positive DUV = green). Olight decided to dedome the XHP35 HD instead of using an XHP35 HI probably for the reason to obtain higher lumens from a higher bin HD emitter but dedoming results in warmer CCT and higher DUV (green). Because I’m a tint snob, I will not be EDCing this one but for those who don’t notice or are not bothered by greenish tint, this is likely the best EDC out there.