HOLY CRAP! I honestly thought $500 was as high as it got.Just saw the pricing on them....Woah to that too.:huh:
So i had my crocodile
dundee moment & said "thats not a light,this is a real light"
Maybe it's just me, but I actually feel kinda bad about showing people up like this. It's one thing if I actively dislike them, but otherwise I kinda feel like a jerk for demonstrating that the thing they were proud of is actually a piece of junk. Maybe it's the result of having a brother ten years younger than me, and spending my teenage years being careful not to embarrass him at every opportunity for failing to be as good as I was at almost everything.Anyway, I let them finish up in the attic and we head down to the basement to take a look at a crawlspace. We enter a room with no lights near an opening into the crawlspace under the other section of the house when I whip out my Fenix PD32 on max and light up the place. I ask the guy with the LED flashlight from the attic if he needs the light as he heads over to the opening into the crawlspace, he doesn't answer but silently walks over to the opening without even looking at me. He takes out his flashlight and makes sure to reach his arm way inside before he even turns it on. I was standing on the far side of the room, shining the PD32 in his direction, and it completely drowned out his little light. He made sure to switch it off before walking back to avoid the obvious comparison, again not even looking at me. Meanwhile the foreman looked very impressed and commented, "that's a great flashlight". Maybe it was just my imagination, but the flashlight envy from the other guy was almost palpable
Maybe it's just me, but I actually feel kinda bad about showing people up like this. It's one thing if I actively dislike them, but otherwise I kinda feel like a jerk for demonstrating that the thing they were proud of is actually a piece of junk. Maybe it's the result of having a brother ten years younger than me, and spending my teenage years being careful not to embarrass him at every opportunity for failing to be as good as I was at almost everything.
Showing them a real quality light can often set them on a path to become a more conscious and informed consumer, and maybe even a fellow CPFer.
Ah, I missed the part where you were the first person down the stairs.Oh it wasn't like that at all, and I'm not into showing people up. I actually made a conscious effort not to shine it around unnecessarily, that's why I didn't feel the need to shine my light around the attic when I first asked if they needed a light. The basement was natural because I led the way down first. Not my fault if that inspired so-called 'flashlight envy'. I'm kind of curious why you picked my story to comment on, though, as it sort of pales in comparison to some of the other stories here. Like the guy bragging to his friends about the outdoorsman type club he had recently joined and all the high-end gear he had to purchase like a "super-bright" Mag Charger, only to be embarrassed and outshone by the P-Rocket of a light-savvy CPF'er; or the foreman thinking he would "save the day" with his pathetic little 6 LED cheapo light, only to be outshone in a crocodile dundee that's-not-a-light-moment by another one of our CPF'ers. Honestly, I think it's harmless fun. It's not like you're a jerk revving your expensive sports car next to some poor guy proudly showing off his new Hyundai to his friends. Flashlights are such mundane objects that most people would never stop to give a second's thought. Showing them a real quality light can often set them on a path to become a more conscious and informed consumer, and maybe even a fellow CPFer. Perhaps the glee expressed at some points in this thread can make it sound as if it's somewhat mean spirited, or perhaps you just need to lighten up (no pun intended).
Maybe he would've been happy with a comparable light with a white emitter, or something similar.After living through the six week power outage in New Orleans following Katrina I had CPFer IsaacHayes build a thrower for me. A CYAN LuxIII, Osink in a 3C M/\G host. By today's standards it's pretty modest, but it's brilliant 1-2 DEG beam really blew away a friend of mine. He offered me far more than I paid for it. He couldn't understand that I couldn't just make a phone call and get another one. I told him that I was only able to get the light for myself because I knew that IsaacHayes already had the sweet emitter the project needed and without it there could be no more.
The guy never did understand.
This is what happened to me Can't imagine going back to the world of thinking my 2-D MagLite was about as practical and good as it could possibly get... and then cheapie LED lights were AWESOME!
Just showing that you guys showing off your lights can lead to more addicts!