Originally Posted by
unterhausen
on edit: I was wrong
The reason they have standard settings is so the beams can be compared. I think it does a reasonably good job of giving a reasonable spread of brightness for different lights. If you go through the DIY beamshots, you will see some that barely register
I certainly agree that there needs to be some baseline for comparison - but what about a baseline for real world performance? If I bought any of those light based on those beamshots - I'd think it was ... broken!!