Losing Perspective?

[Juggernaut]

wash out all the artifacts dancing around you:huh:

You mean other people’s flashlight beams :confused::eek::crackup:!

 

[Illum]

You mean other people's flashlight beams :confused::eek::crackup:!

yep...that and what you see when your beam gets bounced back by something reflective:whistle:

 

[John_Galt]

It's happened to me, and I don't even have any good lights (my best, brightest is a Mag-LED). My old brightest light was a River Rock 1/2 watt. When I got it, it was the whitest, brightest, and smallest light I had, with what seemed to be a perfect beam. It was my brightest with ~11 lumens at the emmitter.:oops::eek::ohgeez::ooo::shakehead
Now, I'm spoiled with my mag-led, with its MORE perfect beam pattern, neutral LED (I can definitely see the blue in the beam of the River Rock), and ability to focus. It is true, what they say, "the more you have, the more you want." Poor me...LOL

**EDIT** It happened again. Now that I have my Fenix LD20, I haven't pulled my Mag LED out in months. Now I just have to see about getting a Novatac or RA! (Actually, I better not try to explain that to my parents...)

 

[Wiggle]

I've got about 4 lights in the 150-225 lumen ballpark which impressed me a ton at first but now it really takes 400+ to really wow me and for no good reason, 200 lumens is a really potent output for almost any application.

 

[Juggernaut]

It's happened to me, and I don't even have any good lights (my best, brightest is a Mag-LED). My old brightest light was a River Rock 1/2 watt. When I got it, it was the whitest, brightest, and smallest light I had, with what seemed to be a perfect beam. It was my brightest with ~11 lumens at the emmitter.:oops::eek::ohgeez::ooo::shakehead
Now, I'm spoiled with my mag-led, with its MORE perfect beam pattern, neutral LED (I can definitely see the blue in the beam of the River Rock), and ability to focus. It is true, what they say, "the more you have, the more you want." Poor me...LOL

Stop, Stop Now! That’s all you need, I bough a 3x AA LED Maglite and it was so amazing, I carried it EDC with me! Even when compared to my “mighty” 6D xenon Maglite up close the whiter more perfect beam seemed brighter. I though I would never need another light again:laughing:. The I got a Cree Taskforce….It went down hill from there:rolleyes:. I occasionally force myself to use the Mag LED because of it’s “usefulness:p” and I’ll tell you it’s nice not to be blinded every time I look at something with My EDC-P7:ohgeez:. So pretend you never came here and leave with your dignity while you can:broke::ohgeez:!

 

[Chrontius]

I want to know the cheat code for 'fullbright mode' (eliminates all shadows). Does anybody know how to bring down the console in Life 1.0? I mean, what could it hurt playing with invincibility on? :D

 

[Illum]

uh, some of you guys must be going blind.. seek eye doctors! ;) jk.

considering what we have going on in or out of closed doors, that's not impossible

With anything higher than say 1000 lumens, white walling without proper protective equipment can be dangerous, especially with over the counter prescription medicine that enlarges your pupils for no good reason
:aaa: :candle: :duck:


:crackup:

 

[Helmut.G]

OMG I always loved that pic lovecpf
but actually the DBS shown is only around 200 lumens:sssh:

 

[Illum]

OMG I always loved that pic lovecpf
but actually the DBS shown is only around 200 lumens:sssh:

200 lumens is alot...on the unmodified original


In fact, I cringe to think about reading with the MC-E'd L4...and I don't think it has 200 lumens

 

[Helmut.G]

200 lumens is alot...on the unmodified original

Yes you're right 200 lumens is a lot. My Fenix T1 would be useless if it was single-mode because turbo is way too bright for any close tasks:naughty:

 

[WadeF]

I was using various exposures to make that DBS look brighter. If someone was standing in my dark bedroom, their eyes fully adjusted, and I fired up that DBS into my book, they might see something like one of the above pictures before their eyes re-adjusted to the light. :)

I should reshoot that picture, but with my DBS MC-E. >:)

I should try and take a shot with a regular book like, to give a real world type exposure. Then keeping that exposure repeat the shot with the DBS MC-E. :P

 

[gsxrac]

200 lumens is alot...on the unmodified original


In fact, I cringe to think about reading with the MC-E'd L4...and I don't think it has 200 lumens

You may be a flashaholic if... You change batteries after every chapter, or page!

 

[f22shift]

i find old incandescents weird especially the low power ones. it makes my house seem haunted but then switch on something modern and "oh, no it's not"

nothing seems haunted with these bright lights and led colors. the magic of my youth gone :poof: :ironic:

 

[Illum]

I should reshoot that picture, but with my DBS MC-E. >:)

I forgot, that DBS was not an MC-E!
I'll be on the lookout! ;)

 

[swiftwing]

After receiving my MC-E Mag from nailbender followed by the Eagletac M2C4, i have finally lost all perspective. It will probably take something on the order of 1k lumens to wow me again like my MC-E Mag did the first time i turned it on.

 

[callmaster]

Tested both the Elektrolumen Drop-in-III MCE (2100 lumen) and Mac's Ellie II Quad P7 at a dark trail and it was bright but I wanted more.

I've been spoilt I guess. Those are pretty bright lights.

 

[king2penn]

Now my P2D & L2D seem pale in comparison to my TK40 and 3D Maglite hotwire that outputs 1050 lumens.
I just got a maxabeam. It still feels kind of great to have 1, yea its a nice light, but i err.. i just got it 2 days back. But that beamspot on the crane 1km away needs to be brighter. :sigh: My maxabeam needs to be brighter, it needs to be bright enough to light up the clouds above like it was daytime. I dont want a small spot anymore

 

[CR123_CR123_CR123]

I still appreciate the flashlights in the 80lumen to 120lumen category. The only time I crank up the lumen use is when I approach my car in the parking lot after I work late (lots of dark areas where bad guys can lurk).

I mainly use the surefire E2DL on low when I need to look at things right in front of me, I really don't want to blast stuff on high and draw attention to myself.

And I just ordered a high-low bezel switch for Malkoff's MD2 light that I have running with a M60WF so I can use it in close quarters w/o blinding folks nearby.

Now, I'm just saving up for a 350lumen or more Surefire UB3, M3 LED, and maybe even an Arc-1R and make those an every day carry. :twothumbs

 

[TKC]

I've lost my perspective years ago. And as lights continue to get brighter (or in the case of my SureFire's - drop ins or new heads get brighter), my perspective goes further and further away from what most people would call mainstream.

My particular mainstream isn't bleeding edge, but it's cutting edge.

I'll use the little anecdote that I posted a while back about the real world test of 4 different Surefire's versus stuff like stock Mag's and other 2D cell stuff. People looked at even the 6P as "too small" and were blown away at the performance. Some were totally floored by the performance of the E series units as well.

So my perspective is totally outside the norm.

-Steve

+2 on that.

 

[ToeMoss]

You may be a flashaholic if... You change batteries after every chapter, or page!

Or you are just a really slow reader.