Thought I'd share some brief thoughts on my experience with the Captor. I've had it for about two weeks now.
It is an enjoyable light to use. Oddly though, somewhat like not having a flashlight, in that everything is lit up very naturally. When I switch back to a reflector-type light I find that I'm annoyed and that I am constantly moving the light around to adjust the spill/hotspot location for whatever I happen to be looking at. I hadn't really noticed it before as that was just how using a flashlight was supposed to be. When you think about it, reflectors really produce an odd light pattern; bright by your feet, gradually fading to dark, then a bright hotspot. Inherently unnatural. Not anymore.
Initially, one of my concerns was having to maintain the proper orientation of the light. The GITD dot should be generally pointed up as the beam is horizontally biased. In practice, this is a non-issue. Just a quick and small twist of your wrist easily allows you to see the beam on your periphery. The pattern doesn't change in front of you, unless you really rotate it, but you can quite easily check orientation with the far peripheral spill. One of those things that takes far longer to describe than to master in practice.
So far anyone, well, any guy that is, that sees it will almost immediately ask something like, "Wow, what kind of light is that?" Fun stuff with a high practical value. My plan now is to somehow mount it to my mountain bike. Should make twisty turns and flow trails a breeze at night.
It is an enjoyable light to use. Oddly though, somewhat like not having a flashlight, in that everything is lit up very naturally. When I switch back to a reflector-type light I find that I'm annoyed and that I am constantly moving the light around to adjust the spill/hotspot location for whatever I happen to be looking at. I hadn't really noticed it before as that was just how using a flashlight was supposed to be. When you think about it, reflectors really produce an odd light pattern; bright by your feet, gradually fading to dark, then a bright hotspot. Inherently unnatural. Not anymore.
Initially, one of my concerns was having to maintain the proper orientation of the light. The GITD dot should be generally pointed up as the beam is horizontally biased. In practice, this is a non-issue. Just a quick and small twist of your wrist easily allows you to see the beam on your periphery. The pattern doesn't change in front of you, unless you really rotate it, but you can quite easily check orientation with the far peripheral spill. One of those things that takes far longer to describe than to master in practice.
So far anyone, well, any guy that is, that sees it will almost immediately ask something like, "Wow, what kind of light is that?" Fun stuff with a high practical value. My plan now is to somehow mount it to my mountain bike. Should make twisty turns and flow trails a breeze at night.