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Flashaholic
I recieved my nicely packaged Blackbirds the other day. What a great light this little sucker is. I love the way the optics is raised to avoid the normal square in a small circle display that we're used to seeing. I also love the settings of the multi-stage switch. It's just right for my usage and there's enough travel in the switch between low and high mode not to switch to high accidently. The HA coating is the best I've ever seen. The look and more importantly, the feel, of the coating is awesome. I like how you can use the optics or straight "reflector" for flood mode. If you want to light up an entire room, take that optics out and fire this sucker up. I've only played with the Blackbird in the 1x123 configuration. I haven't purchased a CR2 cell yet, but the size of that combination looks to be unbeatable in the size vs. output category. I like the way that even though the bottom unscrews, you'd never know it if you didn't know of the design of the light. I'm finding that I prefer to insert the cell via the tailend vs. the topend from the bezel side. I currently have some runtime tests executing that I'll post later. It's nice to have another great and unique light in my collection.