Re: Olight Factory de-domed?!
This light has 3 modes. The lowest modes is listed at 20lm. That's what I use indoor for non-tactical purposes.
By your reasoning small lights that can produce 1000lm such as the Zebralight SC62 and many others are a waste to use indoor, yes?
Just because a light has the word "tactical" on it, does that mean I can only use outdoors or attached to a gun? Lumens are lumens. Many new lights that can produce 1000lm or more also have moonlight modes. Those moonlight modes are there to make the lights more versatile indoors or outdoors, "tactical" or general use.
Similarly, the low mode on my M2X is there to make this light more versatile. But jeez I can't use it indoor because it's a "tactical" light. It's the only light I have with me in my hand as I walk down a dark hall way in the middle night. What do I do? It can't use it because it's a "tactical" light. Oh, no what to do!
LOL
I think tactical now means its black?
I do disagree with "Lumens are Lumens" in the used context though, as a 100 watt light bulb's 1,800 lumens do not look like a spotlight's 1,800 lumens, even though they are both 1,800 lumens.
If your position is that the spotlight pattern (Throw pattern) is OK for your indoor use, and you are happy with it, then it IS OK for you, regardless of why.
If your position is that you are UNHAPPY with the way the light is distributed (Throw pattern), then it is NOT OK for you, regardless of why.
In the thread above, I see people arguing about whether a throw pattern is best indoors, and, essentially some are saying it works for them, and others are saying it doesn't work for them. They are both right of course.
Generally, MOST people prefer a floody beam indoors, as at close ranges (Less than 50 meters for example), a throwy light can glare too much to be as useful as a floody beam would have been in the same circumstances. IE: The tight pattern concentrates the light in a small area, so that its harder to see everything at once. The floody pattern shows everything at once.
So, if a floody zebra floods a room with 1,000 L, it looks like you turned on the room lights...you see the entire room. If a tight throw light with 1,000 L goes on, you see a bright dot of light...and some scattered peripheral light on stuff.
So its not that you CAN'T use a throw patterned light indoors, its just that a floody light tends to do a better job when at ranges more in line with the sub-50 meter end of things. The exceptions are where you need to see into a tight space or down a long corridor or crawl space/chase, into equipment, etc....but if you want to take a shower during a power outage, a bounced flood works better than a bounced thrower, even if both "work".
