There is another flashlight for reference. Thanks for suggesting that I wasted hours of time on a review of a flashlight I paid full price for though.
It's not meant to be representative of what the eye will see, and I did not indicate as much. It is meant to compare against those other flashlights.
I'm not going to take pictures that are representative of what the eye will see, and probably never will because it's useless. What I see and what another person sees can be different. What I see one day and what I see another day will be different. Our eyes are not calibrated, and how well they work is based on many variables that change over time.
The only purpose of the camera settings is so that you can compare my shots against each other. Because I use the same settings, you can compare the XinTD X3 against the Xeno e03 and Solarstorm K2 I took beam shots of in the Solarstorm K2 review.