Caving-Gear Raptor Pro LED Caving Caplamp· Page 2

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derrickman
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14 years ago

#21

I have one of the original Raptors and it has served me well at a budget price. Not the brightest and the beam is tighter than I would wish, but quite sufficient for the purpose.

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

rikj
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14 years ago

#22

Actually, one innovation I'd like to see on headlamps is face detection. Perfectly possible as a lot of cameras have it now.

When the lamp detected a human face directly in front of it, being bathed in 400+ lumens, it would turn its chuffing self OFF! :curse:

:offtopic:

hamster
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14 years ago

#23

Got both the old version of the Retro 2:
http://www.mineexplorer.org.uk/ledlighting.htm

...and one of Roy's EcoStar lamps:
http://www.ledcaplamps.com/

Both excellent lamps. Prefer the Retro 2 for close-up photography, and the EcoStar is a bit more powerful (though it looks like the Retro has been uprated with brighter LEDs recently?) - both have survived a fair battering.

A couple of mates have the Raptors, but i find the beam far too tight which tends to give me a headache.

Used the two together to do some painting-with-light photos in Wrysgan and Cwmorthin.

turbo
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14 years ago

#24

"rikj" wrote:
Actually, one innovation I'd like to see on headlamps is face detection. Perfectly possible as a lot of cameras have it now.

When the lamp detected a human face directly in front of it, being bathed in 400+ lumens, it would turn its chuffing self OFF! :curse: yes good idea, i have migrains quite bad ,all it takes is a bright light to start it off ,do we realy need all that light :guns:

:offtopic:

joydivisionovengloves
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14 years ago

#25

When the lamp detected a human face directly in front of it, being bathed in 400+ lumens, it would turn its chuffing self OFF! :curse: yes good idea, i have migrains quite bad ,all it takes is a bright light to start it off ,do we realy need all that light :guns:

i found all that light a big improvment over the fenix hp10 that i was using. :thumbsup: :angel:

turbo
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14 years ago

#26

im going to put my 1200 lumen lamp on my helmet for next trip 🙂