mobi
Newly Enlightened
That's an interesting point.
I have a Zebralight with .05 Lm and .01 settings.
I use parafilm to shape Zebralight beams. The parafilm also absorbs some of the emitted light. I took some parafilm and folded it over twice making a four-layer thick piece and placed it on the glass. With the light on the .05 setting, it more or less reduced the light to a .01 setting. I made the comparison by switching the light back and forth from .01 to .05 with the film on the glass at .05.
Some of the newer lights have .08 as the lowest setting. The most likely use for me of the lowest setting would be putting it on that setting when I remove the light to lie down, and wanting to locate the light in pitch dark, and use it to navigate in the pitch dark with dark adapted eyes. That would mean keeping the light on the low setting for several hours straight. In that scenario, attaching parafilm to the light to get the .01 Lm effect would be a minimal task.
On the other hand, if the super-low moonbeam mode is going to be needed quickly, this approach would not be much of a fix.
I have a Zebralight with .05 Lm and .01 settings.
I use parafilm to shape Zebralight beams. The parafilm also absorbs some of the emitted light. I took some parafilm and folded it over twice making a four-layer thick piece and placed it on the glass. With the light on the .05 setting, it more or less reduced the light to a .01 setting. I made the comparison by switching the light back and forth from .01 to .05 with the film on the glass at .05.
Some of the newer lights have .08 as the lowest setting. The most likely use for me of the lowest setting would be putting it on that setting when I remove the light to lie down, and wanting to locate the light in pitch dark, and use it to navigate in the pitch dark with dark adapted eyes. That would mean keeping the light on the low setting for several hours straight. In that scenario, attaching parafilm to the light to get the .01 Lm effect would be a minimal task.
On the other hand, if the super-low moonbeam mode is going to be needed quickly, this approach would not be much of a fix.