Judging light size from photo

jzmtl · Apr 30, 2008

Is it me or it's difficult to judge the size of a flashlight from a photo, if you haven't seen it in person before? I found I tend to over estimate the size from photos. For example SF G2, before I saw it in person I always pictured it more like the size of 2 c cell. And L1, also smaller than I thought when I saw it in person.

Crenshaw · May 1, 2008

yeah, me too...like for example if you look at the deal extreme pictures of all the fenix lights, i keep mistaking the LOD for the P3D, and vice versa, because thier proportionately similar...

http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.920

Crenshaw

Tachikoma · May 1, 2008

Me too, I find difficult to perceive the real size of an object (not only with flashlights then) from a photo if there isn't any reference :shakehead
IMO the solution would be to always photograph the item near a well known object, for example a AA battery, so we could immediately understand the size :thumbsup:

e2x2e · May 1, 2008

Yup I also experience a similar phenomena.

nutz_about_lights · May 1, 2008

Yup me too, especially for Surefire lights. I didn't know they were that small! I always thought that the the G2 was the size of the average 2 cell light. :shrug:

what I do now is to use a ruler of course, to get a better idea of the size. If possibe I do a paper cut out too.

Marduke · May 1, 2008

This may help people photographing and selling lights. Print it out with no page scaling. In Adobe Reader, you'll have to change the option of "fit to printable area" to "none" under Page Scaling.

http://www.mediafire.com/?smtisnhlgtz

smvtsailor · May 2, 2008

I have a hard time doing this, especially with Fenix and Surefire lights. I guess its just the pre-CPF days of C and D powered flashlights. CR123A's have roughly the same proportions as a C cell, so that just makes it worse.

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