Ledlenser, P5R Core Rechargeable Flashlight, High Power LED, 500 Lumens, Waterproof Light for Home, Outdoor, Camping, and Emergency Use, Black

Forget all the flashy gifts ladies--the man in your life really wants a rechargeable flashlight. My dad still talks about his to this day and we got it for him years ago.

this is just the right size to use for everyday. feel better that ends are protected with heavy duty rubber, in case dropped. works like all ledlensers...you can't go wrong. excellent quality and reliability. many options for customizing. very bright.

Awesome light, well built, heavy, charges fast with nice magnetic charger, very bright, ultra high quality and worth the money.

First, yes, it's way too expensive compared to many other brands. But it had features I wanted that weren't seemingly available in any of those brands. Are those features worth the additional price? I guess they are for me, but that's a subjective decision. For the record, those features were: non-arcane user interface, hard-covered USB charging port, and, to a lesser extent, beam focusing and unobtrusive product design. The user interface is that there is a twisting ring just below the head with five modes: locked, low, medium, high, and charge. The ring is hard plastic (I can't mark it with my fingernail) and a mode icon shows through a cutout, except for the charge mode, which reveals the USB-C charging port through the cutout. In locked mode, clicking the side button shows a battery charge indicator: four LEDs that shine through the ring just above the button. In the low, medium, and high modes, clicking the button turns the light on or off. It takes about half a second for that to happen, which is a little irritating. If the light is on and you turn the ring, it will switch to the new brightness (or off if you twist it to the locked mode or charging mode). If you pause between two modes for too long (a second or so), it will turn off. That's slightly annoying. If the ring is in any of the active modes, double-clicking the button will activate a super-bright mode that stays on for ten seconds. After that ten seconds, it will drop back to whatever mode is selected, or if you click the button again, it will drop back to the selected mode, or will turn off if you double-clicked while the light was off. To my eye, this super-bright mode is only slightly brighter than the high brightness level. I would honestly prefer if there were just a mechanical on/off switch that disconnected the battery from the circuit, and a ring that selected the brightness, but this was as close as I seemed to be able to come to that with reasonably modern LEDs. It's also worth saying that the side button is a microswitch, like clicking a mouse button, which is not an ideal interface to me. It's both too easy to press and too hard to be confident that you have pressed it. It can sit on its tail. There's no tail button, despite there being a raised disc on the tail that looks very much like it should be a button. I particularly like the hard covering for the charging port; I find that rubber flaps always break off. The flashlight will charge from a USB-C charger. (I point this out because some devices with USB-C charging ports will only charge from USB-A chargers despite the port form factor.) The battery is a removable Ledlenser-branded 21700 marked as "minimum 4500mAh 3.6V 16.20Wh / nominal 4600mAh 3.6V 15.56Wh". It has a shallow button top, but the battery compartment has springs on both ends, so that shouldn't be necessary for a replacement. The light produced is fairly blue with narrow yellow/green fringing at the edge. I don't have a great super-dark environment to test in, but I was able to slightly illuminate the side of a barn 135m/445ft away with the narrowest beam. It was definitely not brightly illuminated, but I could definitely see the difference. You can sort of make out the square shape of the LED in the focused beam, but it's smoothed out pretty significantly. The beam focusing mechanism works okay. (Yes, I'm sure that the beam focus feature negatively affects brightness or definition or something, but that doesn't make a difference to me.) The head moves forward and back by about 7mm while turning about one-tenth of a rotation. You can do it with one hand with some effort, as it's almost more of a push-pull with some slight rotational guidance than just one or the other. There is frequently a small bounceback when moved to either extreme. I first thought it was O-rings flexing under movement, but it actually appears to be a pneumatic problem; if I unscrew the tailcap enough to disengage its O-ring, the bounceback goes away. This probably should have been resolved in the design process. Also, out of the package, it was very difficult to initially move the head to focus. I'm guessing that the O-ring seized up somehow while sitting in packaging. I have had it happen again, though. Now that I know how it moves, I know that I'm not just doing it wrong and can confidently apply extra force, but a random family member might not. But they might not remember that it can focus at all. The low setting is almost unnoticeable in a lit room. I suspect that it's brighter than what many people might want out of a moonlight mode, though. It's definitely bright enough for reading. The medium setting is very bright. Shining it closely at light-colored objects makes it almost hard to look directly at those objects. The high setting is insane to me, but I'm not a flashlight hobbyist. The extra-bright mode really only seemed slightly higher than the normal high mode. There is no blinking mode or alternate color mode. There is a ring of red translucent dots around the rim of the lens. I think this is just enough to confirm that the light is on from the side without having to look into the lens. The body of the flashlight never even got warm at high brightness. The outside of the head only got slightly warm. The lens area got hot, though, to the point that I would worry about sitting it down pointed at heat-sensitive things with it on. It cools almost immediately after turning it off, though. Subjectively, I also like that it looks like something a normal person would own and not like an overwrought prop from a bad science fiction movie. I do wish it were slightly larger. I would prefer that I be able to use my whole palm to hold it, and I can *almost* do that.

El tamaño es un poco menor a lo que esperaba pero no me importa tanto. Su potencia y calidad de fabricación no decepcionó mis expectativas de la marca. Si acaso; es algo complejo el programar las funciones. Es fácil desprogramarla. La preferiría más sencilla en ese sentido. En balance; estoy satisfecho