Re: Zebralight H600F and H600Fw (Projected Shipping March 30, 2012)
I'll see if I can maybe get some shots tonight.
As a kind of disclaimer, I'm not sure I can do effective comparison shots between the H600 and H600Fw given the difference in output of the two versions at different settings. There some much difference between the two, both in terms of output and tint, that side-by-side beamshots might be misleading. A better comparison would likely be the H600 to H600F or H600w to H600Fw.
But the reason I decided to pick up the H600Fw was that I felt the beam characteristics would be (theoretically) quite a bit different from the H600, and (again, theoretically) each should be useful in different situations.
Given the output difference on high (H600 at 750 lumens and the H600Fw at 612 lumens) and the fact that the H600Fw is diffused, when the two are compared side by side outdoors the H600 has an easily discernible advantage in throw. The H600 will light stuff up in the distance that the H600Fw won't come close to. It's not that the H600Fw won't light things up at a distance, but the light is so diffused that its effectiveness beyond 40 or 50 feet is not near what you get with the H600.
To me, if I wanted to light up something effectively with a headlamp beyond 40 to 50 feet outdoors, I wouldn't use the H600Fw -- I'd use the H600.
Also, since the H600Fw is diffused rather than a true flood, it's not as floody as a true flood would be...but it's pretty darned close. The thing about using diffusion is that the light is still hotter in the middle and does spill to the far edges (something that can be more easily seen on a wall), but the gradual diffusion from center to far edges makes it such that you can't point out the edge of the hot spot to corona to spill...it all just a nice gradient blend from center to outermost edges with not real dividing lines between. It's diffused...not a flood, although the diffusion gives it very good floody characteristics.