Generally, I find a big 'ol floody beam to be more useful than a tight dowel shaped beam...with the exceptions being fairly task specific.
SOMETIMES, too much light around you makes it harder to adjust your eyes to a far away darker target...othertimes, it just doesn't seem to hurt in that regard....with the reflectance of your vantage point being a main factor.
Tactically, you sometimes don't want to light up your position, and a floody light, esp with spill, tends to show "the other guy" (the one you might be aiming AT) where YOU and your BUDDIES are, etc.
For other than tactical use, a fat long beam is better than a thin long beam.
Some lights are just lumen monsters, and the raw horsepower just overwhelms the lack of beam focusing....so it just floods a large enough area to INCLUDE lighting up what the dimmer but more focused beam lights can reach.
The 4sevens S12 and X10 are good examples - The S12's beam is very wide, and its 800 lumens are thrown way out there in a broad cone of light. The X10's ~640 lumens is thrown in a much tighter beam...so, the end result, it that the X10's throw is STILL a bit shy of the S12's...but its close....but the S12 is lighting up EVERYTHING down range, not one bush, etc.
For searching, the fatter the beam, the easier it is to FIND things...a narrow beam means sweeping back and forth the stitch together what's out there, etc....
..So the Fury wins the comparison between it and the LX2 at least...despite losing to say the XT11, S12, S10, etc.
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