Hi there,
I just was thinking that in the last year or so there really was nothing really outstandingly new in the world of flashlights.
Or am I missing something?!? (I hope I am! )
A few years ago we could see a considerable better flashlight and/or higher efficiency LEDs every few months.
I still remember the old light bulb MagLights, then came the first well useable LED lights from e.g. Fenix and SureFire LED, and then there was a really large jump in efficciency/efficacy to high lumen lights like the Fenix P3D(-Q5) with around 200 lumens.
And on the other side we got better and better small AAA lights like e.g. the Arc-AAA and now the L0D or LF2 class lights from Fenix and LiteFlux.
But in the last few months, what really great improvements were there?
The only thing that was a little interresting were the P7 and MC-E LEDs, which were just a few "old" LEDs put together with no higher efficiency than before.
Is the efficiency of modern LEDs so high that most likely ther will be no substantial improvement anympore?
And were there any flashlight improvements like e.g. a battery charge display or something like that?
PS:
If someone would like to explain to me the difference between efficiency and efficacy (or poste a link to such an explanation) I would be very gratefull!
I just was thinking that in the last year or so there really was nothing really outstandingly new in the world of flashlights.
Or am I missing something?!? (I hope I am! )
A few years ago we could see a considerable better flashlight and/or higher efficiency LEDs every few months.
I still remember the old light bulb MagLights, then came the first well useable LED lights from e.g. Fenix and SureFire LED, and then there was a really large jump in efficciency/efficacy to high lumen lights like the Fenix P3D(-Q5) with around 200 lumens.
And on the other side we got better and better small AAA lights like e.g. the Arc-AAA and now the L0D or LF2 class lights from Fenix and LiteFlux.
But in the last few months, what really great improvements were there?
The only thing that was a little interresting were the P7 and MC-E LEDs, which were just a few "old" LEDs put together with no higher efficiency than before.
Is the efficiency of modern LEDs so high that most likely ther will be no substantial improvement anympore?
And were there any flashlight improvements like e.g. a battery charge display or something like that?
PS:
If someone would like to explain to me the difference between efficiency and efficacy (or poste a link to such an explanation) I would be very gratefull!