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Today I became the owner of a Led Lenser P7 and Led Lenser P3 (sent free by the seller). I have been yearning to try one of these new German made flashlights for a year now, as the lady at King of Knives is constantly showing me to them whenever she sees me in the store.
I decided to make my next purchase a Led Lenser instead of Maglite, thinking I might be getting an amazing modern torch, but to be honest, my expectations weren't exceeded (They're not very high as it is, I love my Maglite 4D stock LED).
Turning it on and off:
Is it just me, or is it really hard to press the pushbutton in on the tailcap if you have large/masculine hands?
Now my hands aren't very big, in fact they're quite delicate being a large computer user, but even I struggle to get the button in to the point where the light begins to flicker nonstop and *finally* clicks into place.
I found it worse with the P3! The button is so tiny you need to jam a fingernail down into the hole to turn it on.
Normally I'd say I wouldn't care, but what if it called for it, in say, an emergency? You need to flick the light out, have it at the ready to daze an attacker, or spot something happening? I tried a few times and found myself leaving marks all over my thumb trying to get the button all the way in. I can barely turn on the P3 without jamming my pinky in there.
One easy way to overcome this (I'd assume) is to glue or attach some kind of button extension on.
The next problem: Focusing.
Everyone has talked about how it has one-hand focusing. I found that it looked interesting how there is an absence of a significant artifact on the beam in flood (unlike Maglites), and a much sharper edge to the beam on flood, (again unlike LED Maglites, incandescants don't seem to have this). The P3 had an abnormally sharp blue tinge to the outside, although this didn't worry me. The flood on the P3 seems almost useless but it's still wonderfully bright for something of it's size compared to some double AA flashlights I've got here.
Back to the topic, I picked up the Led Lenser P7 and tried to use my thumb to focus it as the lady in the store had mentioned. I slipped! No problems, I'll just try it agai- slipped again. Being in a dry area (Australia) I found there was absolutely zero friction on the flashlight as well as my thumb. I could not shift it and eventually had to use two hands (Again being a computer career guy, perhaps I'm just not strong enough to move it?). Perhaps it would be easier if one of those traditional sliding switches with grooves were attached to the nosecap?
But seriously, I found the buttons on the P3 and P7 nightmarishly hard to press in (particularly the P3), whatever happened to a button that protrudes? Did anyone else suffer the same problem?
Also can anyone who has operated a P7 and P14 tell me if the button on the P14 is bigger and easier to press?
End of Whinge
I decided to make my next purchase a Led Lenser instead of Maglite, thinking I might be getting an amazing modern torch, but to be honest, my expectations weren't exceeded (They're not very high as it is, I love my Maglite 4D stock LED).
Turning it on and off:
Is it just me, or is it really hard to press the pushbutton in on the tailcap if you have large/masculine hands?
Now my hands aren't very big, in fact they're quite delicate being a large computer user, but even I struggle to get the button in to the point where the light begins to flicker nonstop and *finally* clicks into place.
I found it worse with the P3! The button is so tiny you need to jam a fingernail down into the hole to turn it on.
Normally I'd say I wouldn't care, but what if it called for it, in say, an emergency? You need to flick the light out, have it at the ready to daze an attacker, or spot something happening? I tried a few times and found myself leaving marks all over my thumb trying to get the button all the way in. I can barely turn on the P3 without jamming my pinky in there.
One easy way to overcome this (I'd assume) is to glue or attach some kind of button extension on.
The next problem: Focusing.
Everyone has talked about how it has one-hand focusing. I found that it looked interesting how there is an absence of a significant artifact on the beam in flood (unlike Maglites), and a much sharper edge to the beam on flood, (again unlike LED Maglites, incandescants don't seem to have this). The P3 had an abnormally sharp blue tinge to the outside, although this didn't worry me. The flood on the P3 seems almost useless but it's still wonderfully bright for something of it's size compared to some double AA flashlights I've got here.
Back to the topic, I picked up the Led Lenser P7 and tried to use my thumb to focus it as the lady in the store had mentioned. I slipped! No problems, I'll just try it agai- slipped again. Being in a dry area (Australia) I found there was absolutely zero friction on the flashlight as well as my thumb. I could not shift it and eventually had to use two hands (Again being a computer career guy, perhaps I'm just not strong enough to move it?). Perhaps it would be easier if one of those traditional sliding switches with grooves were attached to the nosecap?
But seriously, I found the buttons on the P3 and P7 nightmarishly hard to press in (particularly the P3), whatever happened to a button that protrudes? Did anyone else suffer the same problem?
Also can anyone who has operated a P7 and P14 tell me if the button on the P14 is bigger and easier to press?
End of Whinge
