HI All! I caved with the same couple in Longhorn and Kickapoo.? Very different caves with the same headlight.? While it was GREAT in Kickapoo, it was serious overkill in Longhorn.
Later, I was visiting with Howie, of Howie's Harnesses (ICS vendor), and asked him about these lights.? He agreed that, while very cool, these lights are serious overkill for most caves....and they cost on average $1000, which prices them out of most cavers price range. julia -----Original Message----- From: Travis Scott <[email protected]> To: Texascavers <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 4:00 pm Subject: [Texascavers] Awesome Headlamp? All,? ? I did have the opportunity to break away from the ICS and go caving on the last day (surprisingly). I caved with some folks from Austria who had a new type of high-end LED headlamp I have not seen yet (yes, it may be old news to ya'll). Anyways, it is called the Scurion and the model they had consisted of two LEDs, one was an ambient ~160 degrees of light and the other was a super-bright spot. I was pretty impressed with the ambient option even though it was a little difficult to see the caver behind the light, it was such a broad light (like a bright candle) that it lit most of every room we were in (even the Grand Finale in Honey Creek). Anyways, they are NOT cheap, but since I had not heard or seen anything on them in the Texas caving world, just wanted to see if anyone had experience with them. ? To me, they offer excellent cave photo opportunities with such a broad light (although the kelvin temp is different from bulbs and flashes), plus, you don't have to move your head every time you want to see something. And nobody else has come out with a headlamp that casts such a wide beam. Two links about the lamps are below. Anyone own one of these? Just curious and intrigued, its WAY out of my price range.? ? http://www.scurion.ch/body_index.html? http://www.scurion.ch/ms/index.php?lamp? ? -- Travis Scott? 979.450.0103 Cell? [email protected]? ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------? Visit our website: http://texascavers.com? To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]? For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]? ?
