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I’ve seen more flashlights with L4z0rs popping up front and back - but why?
Why do I need a green Laserpointer in the middle of the woods or at camping? Or if someone uses their flashlight to work, what is the usecase for these things?
For me this seems just the next step in the Tacticool-Timeline…
For pointing at things? Although I don’t know how many people actually need one, it seems a bit niche. Same with UV really, it’s fun but unless you’re hunting for opals how useful is it really?
It would feel like I’m holding a phazor and was going after Klingons or something. 
As others have said, for laser-pointering at stuff, same reasons anyone would want/need a standalone laser pointer.
We already have lights with colour/CCT channels so laser option seems pretty logical.
Most of these flashlight + laser combos seem to be the olight format with built in cells, so don’t interest me that much.
Not sure I get the tacticool timeline reference, lots of these laserpointer lights are utilitarian rather than tactical; while I don’t understand the appeal of some features (e.g integrated fidget spinners), I’m all for variety in lighting design and options, it would be boring if all lights were the same.
Why does anyone need a laser in a flashlight ?
So you can play with the dog on a night walk.
I’ve tried a laser pointer with 3 different dogs and none of them were interested. I used red, perhapse a green pointer would be better?
If I need a laser I’ll carry my infrared temperature measuring device.
Otherwise I can point with my finger or my flashlight.
I do like the LEP. Although I don’t use it to point. It’s more for seeing.
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If you want your dog to get blind - go on and use a green laser with unknown output.
There are special laserpointers for cats with measured and guaranteed unharmful output for a reason.
Also…
Are laser pointers really that bad for dogs?
Yep, if you watch your dog’s body language when chasing the laser, you’ll quickly see that laser pointers are bad for dogs. Using a laser pointer isn’t amusing for your dog — that frantic pouncing on the dot can often be seriously unpleasant and filled with tension for pups. The movement of the light stimulates dogs to chase, but there is nothing to catch, and that is why the game is bad for dogs. Constant chasing without ever being successful at catching the moving object can frustrate dogs, leading to obsessive and destructive behaviors.
Laserpointers are used mainly in presentations (at least as far as my experience goes) - and in such you don’t want to have a bulky flashlight in your hand but something small.
Aside from presentations and blinding your cat or dog, I just can imagine someone pointing to something nice in a cave. But that’s way too niche to explain why there are so many laserlights now.
It probably has more to do with the “It’s something new” tactor coupled with some people thinking it’s cool rather than being properly useful.
Also you can just use one of these COB-Sidelight drivers for it.
All we need now is a SOS and Strobe function for the Laserpointers…
I have Cyansky Vanguard with integrated green laser pointer. I don’t think that it has some useful puprose but sometimes it is interesting to use it or point with it some places in purpose to explain someone where some distant points are situated.
It is good quality but I have cheap - 5 usd chinese green laser which is much more powerful than this in Vanguard. Probably that chinese laser has power without rules and I use it carefully but it throw like crazy.
Same for cats. They love chasing around the dot, but it’s frustrating when they never catch it, which is why They™ say to finish the play-session with an actual chase-toy, like feather at the end of a “fishing rod”, etc., so that they do have something to pounce on and catch.
It is good for work, if you work in a warehouse or industrial setting. Using the laser to point on an issue like a leaking roof when the ceiling is 40 feet high or a slight crack on an HVAC system. A flashlight would be a wider spread and more difficult to point the exact location. Again a fairly niche application.
I do pest control. I use the laser to point out areas to customers and uv to find rodent urine during inspections. I use the hd01 pro personally. It might be somewhat niche as far as a edc though
Dunno. I’ve had lasers for a long time because I like shiny things, and they’re pretty neat… but I don’t think I’ve ever had an actual use for one.
Mostly, they’re just neat. Like, they’re fun in fog, or to see how interference patterns work, or to wave around and make shadebobs. But if I want to actually point at something, I’ll generally use a compact thrower torch, like my Noctigon KR1 with Osram W1 emitter. It lights up the thing I point it at, and not much else. Lasers tend to make it difficult to see the thing they’re pointing at.
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Hmm, thinking more, I do remember having a use for a laser once. I was trying to point out a specific star… and having a laser beam bright enough to see in the air was helpful.
astronomy?
flashlight to set up and laser to point out.
My dog doesn’t see a Sanwu 304 green dot even if it’s right in front of her, totally invisible.
Yes, when I used to frequent star parties a good green laser came in handy for pointing our objects in the night sky.