Has anyone ever played with one of these headlamps?
Mammut Lucido X-Zoom Headlamp
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FBPRQK/?tag=cpf0b6-20
Mammut Lucido X-Zoom Headlamp
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FBPRQK/?tag=cpf0b6-20
I've seen this one at REI.com, but I haven't gone into REI yet to see if there's one on display. I intend to investigate though as soon as I can. Hopefully I can find out what kind of emitter is in there. I wonder if they'll look at me funny if I sit in the store for a few hours with it on to determine if it's well regulated.
If you're an REI member every once in awhile you'll get a coupon for 20% off an item, so if you wait a bit you may be able to score one a bit cheaper than retail that way. I don't know of many other places in the states to find Mammut stuff.
According to a Mammut customer service rep in the UK, the light is not regulated.
I think the LED is still a luxeon like Mammut's 1-watt headlamps ...
I don't know of many other places in the states to find Mammut stuff.
So are you saying that the Mammut is brighter than the myo rxp?
tnuckels said:Don't mean to knock the X-Zoom at all, but every manufacturer presents their figures in the most flattering light, so to speak. It's up to us to then figure what degree of slight of hand they are using and what the numbers really mean.
Funny thing is that the light on the narrowest setting is square... with very sharp edges.
A square hotspot comes from an optic or very focused reflector which projects an image of the die.
A square hotspot comes from an optic or very focused reflector which projects an image of the die. All aspherical mods and such as well as very focused optics and parabolic "recoil" reflectors do this. It has nothing to do with the rebel LED just the optics used in the light.