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Old 07-25-12, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnJ80
Beam shots at this level of brightness are a waste of time. Digital cameras cannot adequately show the spread from bright to dark. Your eye can see about 20 fstops of light. The camera 6 or so.

J.
You're entitled to your opinion - I just don't happen to share it. What I'm most interested in myself is the actual beam spread. That IMO is what makes a light useful - not just lumen output. In fact, it would take four times the light output to cover four times the area with the same luminous intensity - but the 'brightness' would appear identical in the illuminated areas of either. A larger beam spread would be a lot more useful to drive with IMO.

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