Comments on: Lupine Tesla TL 1200

By: Dave Wise

Dave Wise — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:50:41 +0000

Again, I would like to respectfully disagree with you. My review does what I believe to be an adequate job describing the output. To quote P.4:

“Sitting behind that gem of a reflector is the equally beautiful Luminous SST-90 LED. This enormous, single-die power LED allows the TL 1200 to be driven at incredibly high levels producing huge quantities of light. Its copious surface area also assists in producing the lights beautiful wide-angle beam. This light produces such a flood of crisp white light that you begin to wonder whether you will use anything else ever again. It is incredibly smooth and beautifully transitioned, with no artifacts to be seen anywhere. The output of this torch easily matches the quality of the rest of the construction.”

If you have further questions regarding the output of this light, please post your questions here and I will happily do my best to answer them as quickly and accurately as possible.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:48:46 +0000

Beamshots are tricky and can be misleading, but your review as it stands tells me how the light feels in the hand, your impressions of the packaged accessories and a lot of flowery prose, but doesn’t describe or show the reader what, if anything the flashlight will illuminate. I agree that beamshots may be misleading, especially if you don’t have a knack or the equipment for taking them, but to say there is no value at all is just wrong. The whole point of a flashlight is to illuminate things you wish to see.
I don’t mean to belittle your review, as what you do have describes your impressions of the casing, the user interface, the packaged accessories,etc. quite well. Essentially, you have reviewed everything but the light emitting from the end itself, which is the whole point of the device. Please expand the review to describe how wide the beam is, if there are any holes or rings in the beam, the color temperature of the light, how far it throws a usable beam and any other pertinent findings. No beamshots required. Comparisons to other somewhat common lights would be appreciated. If you could compare it to an Elektrolumens EDC-MCE or MAC’s Customs SST-50 EDC, it would be especially appreciated by myself.

Thank You.

By: Dave Wise

Dave Wise — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:38:05 +0000

Thanks for your comment, and thanks for checking out my review. I would however like to respectfully disagree with you. Beamshots are notoriously tricky beasts. What the eye perceives and what the camera picks up are often entirely different. Also, those of us without superior cameras or photography skills have a very hard time getting them to turn out at all. I think that if the light has been adequately described, the actual photo of the beam is somewhat superfluous since it is such a subjective argument anyway. I would suggest it might be more accurately described as a car review that doesn’t include a soundbyte of the engine idling. It would be useful, to be sure to hear the throaty growl firsthand, but not an absolute necessity.

That being said, I did find some time recently for some guerrilla beamshots in spite of my severely light-polluted, urban locale. I just need to finish some quick post-processing on the two that actually turned out (the Lupine Tesla TL 1200 is one of them) and I will see if I can get them posted. Stay tuned.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:51:21 +0000

Where are the beamshots? A review without beamshots is like a commercial telling you everything about the car they’re selling except how it runs and drives.

By: Dave Wise

Dave Wise — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:51:55 +0000

I will have to see what I can do to take some size/beam comparison pictures.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:08:04 +0000

A good review as far as it goes but I would like to see a photo of the torch in hand or compared to another common torch so I know the relative size. Would also love to see a beam shot preferably compared to another well known light.

By: Dave Wise

Dave Wise — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:21:26 +0000

Thank you very much for the compliments! Yes, this light is very nice. Amazing performer.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:04:12 +0000

Quality review, always easy to understand for newbie’s like me !
The torch looks the biz. too.
Many thanks to Dave Wise.