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Plain black and stainless is very nice, the grey one too.

Si en somme spécifiquement : Avec les anglois, contre les fridolins.

Qui aime bien châtie bien.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Very nice.

Manque l'option étêtage.

Chouette, un référendum ! Peut on espérer une Convention Citoyenne ?

Too many posts

Monsieur n'est pas patriote ?

Yep, regarding emitters they always miss the mark. Thank you.

84€ for greenish low CRI white, no moonlight on the red channel and unfiltered UV. Ouch! That being said the clip + rotation + tilt head system seems nice.

Do you know what the wavelength of the red channel? I guess it's a shit 625nm... Thanks for the test.

About the (dual or triple channel) DW4K: You can find it on Hank site on this page with the other headlamps.

In my opinion it is, by a lot, the best option on your list (well machined, robust)... But, beware, it is an "enthusiast" flashlight, so:

• It can be quite pricey once you selected emitters and a bunch of options (magnetic tailcap, clip, strap, optics, etc.).
• It use a complex advanced UI (Anduril 2) which is top notch, but can be a bit destabilizing for a new comer... And even more on a multi channel model. You will need to learn it.
• You will also need an external dedicated charger (no USB port on Hank's flashlights).

White emitters : NTG35 or 519A at the temperature of your choice. Red emitter : SST-20 deep red.

No. Peugeot 504.

4× 660 nm red

Good!

Not an easy one to catch. Well done!

Flat design is a plague.

They will V2 every models except the HD15R. :/

The dead Hal is the manhunter offspring.

Yep, with a deep red 660nm emitter (the one good choice of Sofirn on the ST10) you didn't completely wreck your night vision. That's somehow the purpose of this specific wavelength: 10% absorbance on the red cones and nothing else (rods, blue & green cones at 0% absorbance).

So, even with, lets say, completely toasted red cones (they were not) you still had 100% sensitivity on your other photoreceptor cells.

Still, a lower level (1 or less floody lumen, meaning a very low candela when you are looking at your star chart 25 cm away) would have seen your red cones even less impacted and an even better night vision preservation and/or faster recovery of said perfect night vision. Yes, it's marginal, as is the difference between seeing things at mag 5 & mag 5.5. Doing visual astronomy we want the best possible nocturnal acuity after all.

Why is it too bright? Because you absolutely don't need it doing astronomy. 1 lumen is well enough. Sometimes you need to illuminate something up close and at a short distance 5 lumen (on a white paper or on a metallic surface) can be way to bright. And because the other guy (we are not always alone) seeing you blast 10 lumen at 660nm will blast 10 lumen at 620nm (ouch, toasted green cones), and at this point a third fucker will blast 3 lumen of white (bye bye rods) resulting in 20 minutes of (relative) "blindness" for everybody. ;)

A beauty. Well done!

You saw the milky way under bortle 2 condition? No shit? Really? Just kidding. ;)

Sofirn HS42 and Skillhunt H200 are 625-630nm red, not deep red (660nm)... And you really want deep red. :/

The HD15R was deep red (and high CRI white, and USBC + reverse charging mode, and had decent simple one button UI, and reasonably dim in moonlight mode, and very affordable) but it's sadly not in production anymore (Wukkos is currently surfing the RGB tacticool lasery gimmicky trend). :/

For now, I'm using an HD15R. If I had to replace it it would be with:

• A second hand HD15R.
• A multichannel Emisar (luxurious option): SST20 deep red + hight CRI white, this one for example.
• A dedicated red only Convoy (super cheap option) with SST20 deep red (excellent beside being very cheap).

There are many other options, but that the ones I can think of for now. Keep in mind to always check the wavelength of the red emitter. You want deep red (660nm).

It has a very dim red light

No! There is NO MOONLIGHT on the ST10 deep red channel... The Low red is officially 3 lumens, more like 5 to 10 lumens in reality (approximately 10x the red moonlight on my Wurkkos HD15R). Way way way to high for astronomy.

Plus the UI is absolute shit (he will blind himself accidentally swapping on white channels).

Oh. Nice tailcap. Sofirn or Convoy? ;)

H18 -> No moonlight? No reverse charging? Damn. Is it deep red (660nm) or shit red (625nm)? This info should be mentioned somewhere on the description.