Thanks for the breakdown...the L1 looks like a good contender for me.
Are any of their regular bulbed lights upgradeable to LED?
I don't think I'll ever use an incandescent light since I've owned LEDs.
Don't count out incans yet, if your only previous incan experience has been Maglites, that's not the best example of a good incan, the Mag is mediocre at best
try an incan G2, as they're a nice, inexpensive light that puts out a high-quality beam, incans are still unmatched when it comes to accurate color rendition outdoors
If you're going to mainly be using it inside buildings, LED lights are fine, and in fact, are preferred over incan, but if you're outdoors, nothing performs like an incan, it renders colors more realistically, and cuts through fog and rain like nobody's business, LED light has a large blue spike and tends to scatter when used in fog or rain, unless you have an LED light that's focused for throw
outdoors, LED lights tend to "flatten out" the subject they're shined on, due to the large blue spectral spike and deficient red frequencies, things look "ghostly" and unnatural under LED illumination outside
here are some pics that give a good baseline for color rendering comparison
Baseline flash exposure;
Lumileds LuxeonIII (SureFire L1 with F04 Beamshaper);
Cree XR-E (Lighthound Cree drop-in lamp module in SureFire 6P)
Seoul Semiconductor P4 (SureFire KL1 modded with reflector)
Lumileds Luxeon Rebel80 (Fenix L2T 2.0)
Incandescent (SureFire A2 Aviator)
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