Are there really two "main" types of Flashoholics? Let me explain -
When I first found this place it was a reawakening from years of flashlight fetish dormancy, when the last time I really felt like a "Flashoholic" (if there even was such a term 40+ years ago) was under the covers after Mom called lights out, finishing up the latest issue of Marvel with my trusty plastic Eveready 2D over my shoulder.
Then brief flickers of Light over the years - first as a rookie, when all they issued us was them "StarBrite"(?) plastic 2Ds. At least a Krypton bulb, though (whoa, dude!) but sickly dim nonetheless, so my folks "invested" in a then-unheard-of $30+ (!!!) for a brand new also just-then-heard-of brand Maglite 3D as an academy graduation present. Black, of course. And then in my airgun shootin' days, with tape switched ASPs mounted over scope centerbores and the all-new $17 Photons on keychains as "backup" lights.
Then I found CPF (Thanks to Craig's LED Museum website). A whole brave new world of lights, especially the alluring intoxication of LEDs that actually enabled you to look at stuff now instead of just Being looked at on calculator displays and the like.
But though some here had begun developing their own "modified" lights, with soldering and cutting and drilling and scratching and scraping and fitting of actual Metal and - omiGawd - even teeny lil' circuit boards to drive'em, I took one look inside a Lambda Illuminator and resigned myself to being, as I told Kevin then, a "Plug 'n Play" type Flasho...
Which leads me to my postulation - that although many here have become tinkerers as well, I am wondering if there really are mainly just two types of flashlight users - the potential Modder type, and then those whose time constraints and/or priorities will never allow the crossing of the threshold into the world of headbanded flip-down magnifying lenses and nostrils and fingernails respectively filled with solder fumes and metal filings...or the "Plug N' Play" type.
So - Plug 'n Play vs. Modder - what say ye all? True? False? None a my business?
When I first found this place it was a reawakening from years of flashlight fetish dormancy, when the last time I really felt like a "Flashoholic" (if there even was such a term 40+ years ago) was under the covers after Mom called lights out, finishing up the latest issue of Marvel with my trusty plastic Eveready 2D over my shoulder.
Then brief flickers of Light over the years - first as a rookie, when all they issued us was them "StarBrite"(?) plastic 2Ds. At least a Krypton bulb, though (whoa, dude!) but sickly dim nonetheless, so my folks "invested" in a then-unheard-of $30+ (!!!) for a brand new also just-then-heard-of brand Maglite 3D as an academy graduation present. Black, of course. And then in my airgun shootin' days, with tape switched ASPs mounted over scope centerbores and the all-new $17 Photons on keychains as "backup" lights.
Then I found CPF (Thanks to Craig's LED Museum website). A whole brave new world of lights, especially the alluring intoxication of LEDs that actually enabled you to look at stuff now instead of just Being looked at on calculator displays and the like.
But though some here had begun developing their own "modified" lights, with soldering and cutting and drilling and scratching and scraping and fitting of actual Metal and - omiGawd - even teeny lil' circuit boards to drive'em, I took one look inside a Lambda Illuminator and resigned myself to being, as I told Kevin then, a "Plug 'n Play" type Flasho...
Which leads me to my postulation - that although many here have become tinkerers as well, I am wondering if there really are mainly just two types of flashlight users - the potential Modder type, and then those whose time constraints and/or priorities will never allow the crossing of the threshold into the world of headbanded flip-down magnifying lenses and nostrils and fingernails respectively filled with solder fumes and metal filings...or the "Plug N' Play" type.
So - Plug 'n Play vs. Modder - what say ye all? True? False? None a my business?