Any Zebralight Outdoor Beamshots??

[fleetparadox]

Hey Guys,

Now that they've been out for awhile... anyone have more outdoor actual use beamshots that they're willing to post? (For someone on the fence)

The 1 outdoor one on the website (plus a few indoors) just aren't enough to keep me satisfied..

Still curious on just how far it (doesn't) throw and how bright the flood is.

 

[GuyZero]

I don't have a good area to take outdoor beamshots, sorry. But I can tell you that they won't be very impressive since it's all flood and no throw.

It's really hard to explain until you stick one on your head and turn it on inside, or while you're close to something, and say, "Wow! This is great!!". Then you walk outside with it on your head and say, "Wow, this is really not well suited for darkly colored things more than 10 or 15 feet away."

But I can tell you that the good "Wow" from inside/close up work greatly outweighs the bad "Wow" from outside/far away.

But the Zebralight does have a trick up it's sleeve - it comes with a few extra mounting brackets so you can clip one of the lighter Fenixes to the side of your head along with the Zebralight and say, "WOW! Now I can see things both far away AND at my feet!!"

 

[fleetparadox]

GuyZero,

Your description of the throw (or lack thereof) is exactly how I understand the Zebralight to be.

Guess I just wanted to see how the Zebralight really looks in practical situations: say working on a flat, looking for the perfect bathroom tree, etc...

 

[Valolammas]

I don't have any beamshots either. This light is such a pure flood, that it's very difficult to take beamshots of. At least for me, haven't had any success in it.

But it does throw a bit further than people usually say. I find wet ground and snow eat up LED light so it isn't much good there. Still no problem seeing where you are putting your feet or a couple of meters ahead, but that's it. However, indoors or in dry, dark conditions, I'd say you can see clearly for 5-10 meters or so, and dimly for 10-15 meters.

It's still not a throw light, and wasn't meant to be. It is, however, probably the best worklight ever! Once you get used to it, it's so unobtrusive, that it's very easy to forget you are wearing it.

 

[Empyfree]

Getting a picture of this is a two person job, I'll see if I can do this tommorow night, I'll borrow my brother as a "Model" and get him to wear my ZL. You need to see the relationship between the wearer and the light, there is no "beam" to photograph, just a patch of lit up ground around the person wearing it!

I havent had much chance to use mine yet, but I regularly work in night-clubs, servicing "disco" lights etc. This will be the perfect aid for me, no nasty hot-spot to glare and blind me.

 

[jirik_cz]

Well, you can check my review, but it is written in czech language. I have some indoor and outdoor beamshots there (zebra p4, Q5, some generic 28x5mm led headlamp and MTE SSC on medium).
http://ledmania.ceskyblog.cz/recenze/celovky-zebralight-h50-p4-q5/

 

[swxb12]

WadeF has a basement shot in his thread, compared to standard lights: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=185455

It looks pretty dim, but the screen is completed saturated with the Zebra's output.

I think it's pretty tough to get an outdoor shot that captures the full effect of the output since it's spread so thin. The Zebralight is pretty much like a semi-focused lantern.

 

[DonShock]

I find the Zebra's flood to be great for a work light. But if you are using it for navigating in the dark outdoors, it is very different than any other light I have used. Even ones that don't throw very far, there is still a fairly gradual transition from dim to bright as things get closer. When I used the Zebra while doing midnight rounds at the water plant where I work, I noticed the Zebra doesn't work like that. It's more like you are walking around inside a bubble of light. Everything outside the "range" of the light pretty much disappears. Then as you are walking and something comes into range, all of a sudden you notice it and it becomes more well lit as you get closer. I think it may be due to the combination of the light being unfocused over a large even area so it dies off quickly with distance and that your night vision gets totally destroyed because everything up close is lit up brightly. But it's definitely different.

 

[Dr.K]

I used mine to change a tire tonight. Worked Great!

 

[Uncle Bob]

I think I'm going to stay on the fence also. My 4 headlamps all have decent throw besides low levels.

Another issue is that I have progressive eyeglass lenses. That means that I have to point my head toward the things I need to focus on. All that peripheral light on the Zebralight is wasted for me. I think I'd be more inclined to buy if the spread of the beam was not like a bare bulb but more focused. :sigh:

 

[Alan]

Beamshot? Zebralight doesn't have beam Its light effect in high mode is more like carrying 4D 8W florescent lantern but in one direction. If Zebralight make a 4AA model, it will become the best emergency light ever.

Alan

 

[swxb12]

The H50 is a head-mounted lantern. You're better off with a flashlight and headstrap for conventional headlamp use. Or the always fun teeth-mounted light

 

[spoonrobot]

Clockwise from top left, low, medium, high. Target is five meters away.

In this picture the ZebraLight is clipped to the bill of my hat and is slightly behind the camera. About 2 meters from the plants.

I would change nothing about this light. 100% flood is so rarely seen it's hard to figure out where its true use lies. This light is among the best general purpose EDC light ever.