I saw the Scurion in action on the pre congress trip, two people where using them an Aussie and a Swiss guy had'em on their brain buckets, it sure is a way awesome light, the sten paled in comparison when the scurion was on high mode but at 600 australian bucks, I think I might just carry one of those gazillion cp spotlights sold at walmart :-P
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Travis Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > >
