I was gifted the N7 with an annoyingly off centered led and I have a few BLF centric quibbles (starting on high mode, protruding pocket clip on the body, weak anodizing, ugly tint, etc, etc) aside from that it’s a pretty unique and inexpensive light that falls within the good flashlight gift category. It needs a headband to really complete the package.
High mode is not visible in camera but medium mode looks like this (pretty bad) but I can’t really notice in person.
+1 Perfect on camera in high mode, low mode it shows, but visually I don’t notice it. If you turn it on in low mode, set it on the table pointing toward the wall and stare closely at the wall you might catch a flicker if you stare long enough.
Mum actually bought one of those tulip-head zoomies with Secret Military Technology™ and it’s a driver-in-tail design. Decent quality hardware, actually, but still a craplight, and nowhere near being worth the purchase price.
Thanks for sharing. It looks like the output numbers you got track pretty well with my own.
About the validity of the amazon reviews. I am guessing that the ones with thousands of reviews are a mixed bag. Once you get outside the flashlight forums there are many people I have met that think the cheap lights are truly “a find”. When I used to work in town people would come up to me all excited wanting to show me the $6 light they picked up with a wad of 5mm LEDs in the front. Thrilled at how bright it was. The flip side to the coin is I would bet that like 30% of the 5 star reviews were made by people who were given a free light. Those dealers and manufactures hit me up frequently. I paid for all of these lights because I knew there would be things I would not like about some of them and I always feel bad for people when they send lights for review and they get a truth hurts moment.