Cree Flashlight with Squared Beam?

itsonlyme

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I have this light like from the below image, but whenever I make the beam tighter it transforms to a square beam instead of the perfectly shaped round beam what I see on my Surefire lights. I can even see inside of the reflective lens that the CREE bulb is a squared shape.
http://alkupiac.hu/kepek/termekek/1140700/1140714_1_zseblampa.jpg
http://ijdmtoy.com/ebay/SKU344/50W-CREE-H7-LED-Bulbs-01.jpg

I just stumbled across this light which I had stored for many months....

Actually I like it in a way...EXCEPT for the beam square deformation. At least, the light beam itself has this cool white bright light instead of the more dimmer greenish light which most Surefire lights tend to have....Which I do not still understand why Surefire beams have the green hint to their beams....

Anyways, does anyone own these type of CREE lights?
And if so, does the square looking tight beam bother you????

Even the Surefire KROMA light has that shape of beam like from this video at 0:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p68A3WRD2z0

But does this bother or annoy anyone who owns these type of lights with this LED or CREE shaped bulbs?

I am just wondering.
 

Norm

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The square your seeing isn't deformed, it's a direct projection of the shape of the LED die.

Norm
 

itsonlyme

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But doesn't it look silly as opposed to the normal round shaped beams?
 

Str8stroke

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Lots of the cheaper zoomie lights are set up that way. Not sure about the more expensive Led Lenser zoomie. The older SF, I think its the KL1, had a square shape to the beam. If you put the square beam on a white wall about 3 feet away, you can actually see that it is the shape of the led die. Some even show the lines.
 

JasonJ

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Are there retrofit lenses that can be attached, modded or whatever, to such lights that will reshape the focused beam into something other than the square die?
 
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