Sofirn IF22A (SFT40): The "Why Did I Wait So Long to Buy This Light?" Flashlight

[gman7228]

@Boaz

It’s a really nice light . the green tint is one of it’s greatest flaws.

I’m running a Zircon 1/4 minus green filter on it and it’s still to green …it’s bad .

Adding a Zircon #803 (minus 3 green) and a #814 (warm amber 9) filters landed the light right on the bbl at 4000k on an Opple. Hot spot is fuzzier and slight loss of lumens, of course, but the result looks quite nice to me. The bezel came right off on a black Amazon light but a silver one from AE is either glued or tighter than I can twist without a strap (don’t have one yet). The silver one is a bit green on a wall and measures pretty close to 5800k. I’ll leave it as is for a little variety.

Edit: to add “right on the bbl”. Hard to see bbl on the Opple on my phone

[zoulas]

@Lightbringer

Not to sound snarky, but if you (the generic “you”, no one in particular) want a thrower, get a thrower. If you want a flooder, get a flooder. You can’t expect a tight-beam thrower to be useful looking 6’ in front of you so you don’t fall into a hole.

My Catapult Mini throws a tight beam, a lot tighter than my ’22A. Throws like Hell at moderate distances. And yet, my ’22A just has more oomf to be able to throw even farther, just by brute force. Both of them use TIR lenses, which concentrate most of the light into the hotspot, with very little spill. That’s a GOOD thing, because I don’t want to be blinded by a washed-out foreground right in front of me when trying to see something at a distance, as a reflectored light would do.

You want a practical light for up close, get something with a much wider hotspot (ie, typical tubelight), or a flooder, or slap on some diffusion film.

Most of my lights are flooders or just have wider hotspots, precisely because I use them mainly close-in. The rare occasions I want a thrower I take a thrower.

Good point but IMHO, the most useful lights have the right combination of flood and throw. I am not taking about that one guy that needs to see 500 yards away, most people don’t do that.

[zoulas]

This is on my short list. After 60 days, my Astrolux FT03S SFH55 came in.