This is a comparison between the Inretech Super6 and a MadMax Minimag.
Comparing the Super6 to any normal flashlight is difficult, because it is truly and apple-orange kind of thing. I call my Super6 a "swathlight". It is not a lantern, and it is not like any flashlight I've seen. It just happens to be in a flashlight case. (Most, if not all, Super6's describe themselves as being a swathlight trapped in a flashlight's body.) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohgeez.gif
That being said, lets move on to the swath/beamshot comparison...
This shot was taken with both lights hanging from my ceiling fan, about 7 ½" from the ceiling. The Super6 is actually closer to the ceiling because it's head is taller than the Minimag.
Both lights have reasonably fresh alkalines, and the Super6 is being overdriven in a 4 C cell Mag-lite. That color difference photographed reasonably well. The MadMax is a menthol white luxeon (greenie), and the Super6 is brilliantly white.
My Super6 casts an interesting swath with "Spirograph" like artifacts. I only notice this when looking at something very light colored. It doesn't at all hinder the usage of the light.
For what you mentioned, a camping/hiking in the woods light, it would excel.
The swath from the Super6 is cast 20-30 ft., so it is not the typical piercing beam of a flashlight, however, it does what it was designed to do well.
Carried at your side, it will illuminate almost your entire visual field. If it mounted closer to the lens of the Mag-lite, it would cover the periphery as well.
The only improvements I would make to the module, if I could, would be an extension tube that screws onto the Mag's bulb receptacle, that would push the luxeons out to about 3/16 or ¼" from the lens. And, if the holes the luxeons were mounted in were to be countersinked, and painted with a silver reflective paint, I think more light could be coaxed out of the module. The circuit board as it is, appears to absorb the light emitted from the sides of the luxeons.
The Super6 is a cool light. It would be a
Chick Magnet if:
a. It was a magnet.
b. Chicks were made of iron. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yellowlaugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohgeez.gif
Also see
this.