Thanks Ernie for another honest review. That would be a great light to add to my search and rescue pack. Should you have a subject that requires first aid during a night recovery, you can attend the their needs hands free. Also with the strobe feature, it would allow air rescue to locate your position guickly. Looking forward to your next review. Cheers
Luke from the outdoor gear review has been using one of these lights for quite some time. It’s a really nice idea and he appears to like it very much too.
Perfect for a car kit or car camping. It’s a little pricey but a very versatile light. Thanks for the review. By the way I love my Primus Essential Trail stove. Thanks for letting me know about it. Small enough to nest in my cook kit but I can actually cook not just boil water.
Thanks, Ernie! I like this form factor a lot. It would be interesting to compare this to the similarly priced Devos Lightranger 1200, which has established itself in the overlanding market. There are some obvious differences in use cases, but some intriguing overlaps as well.
Thank you Ernie I would buy it but not at that price, I can get similar on Temu or one of the other Chinese sites at an incredibly low price and I have a lot of emergency lights and just camping lights a bit like you with your stoves. 🤣🤣🤣Jim from Scotland
If you are into hiking at night or evening in the winter check out the Glowalk from olight. I have the original ones they made and I love them. I always use hiking poles since I have had knee and hip replacement.
Thanks Dr. Ernie for the review. I like it a lot and think it would make a great fishing light while cat fish fishing at night. Don't like the sound of gas lanterns. Unfortunately at $195 it is too expensive for many of us.
Earnie…. It’s time. You need a wireless mic for your videos. You will jump up your voice quality 10X so yea. It’s time my dude. Love your videos. Not the reverb/echos in your audio. Let’s go. It’s time. You an OG UA-camr. Get on it dog-gonnit.
Or spend $20 on a Lumintop AA battery flashlight and put on the light diffuser then stick that on the end of whatever treking pole you have, hell even at the end of a stick you find on the trail
Seeing the vent holes it must get hot. More flashlights or portable lights should come with a glow in the dark tag/ label something so you can easily find them in a power outage.
Yes that product has it all, and yes it might be somehow useful in an emergency to have a torch on a stick and a powerbank on legs. And yes it might be extra useful if you have so far nothing like a torch or so. But - let's be real. This thing comes late and combines just what all of us already have at home. All or at least most of us have already something like a selfie stick (and meanwhile all of them come with a stand to unfold if required) and most probably we have also at least one or two power banks, and of course everybody has any torch for not only when we go on trail. Most of us haven even multiple torches, I would simply guess. And everybody has rubber bands. So if you want to have a light on a stick, just take a couple of simple rubber bands and you can clip your whatever torch you have to your selfie stick, done. And if that doesn't work, use some duct tape or band aids to make it happen. So, yeah, if you want to hear my humble opinion: that thing is completely unnecessary. Just another piece of gear adding up to the pile of trash we are lead to purchase for these short couple of minutes of happiness over having got a new toy. And finally it is simply for the bin since we don't need it and don't use it. And it will break by itself after some while since the inbuild batter/powerbank isn't made for eternity. And whiles you can get you a new powerbank you don't have to purchase an additional stick and torch and what not else whenever that thing is over. Just my 2 cents, of course. And yes I'm a stingy cheap guy who doesn't want to throw his little money on the road. Especially not for a product which costs more than double (!) the amount of what is asked for a very similar unnecessary product which is sold next to that one here on Amazon, just by another brand ...
Price is an immediate killer for me. While it might be kind of nice to have an "all-in-one" lighting device, there are a a lot of less "innovative", more specialized lights that can do most of what this light can do - and the things those other devices may not be able to do aren't things I'm really interested in doing anyway (I don't need a camera light for my UA-cam videos, since I don't make any!). If they are advertising to use it as a camp light or tent light, one thing it seems to be missing is any kind of "moonlight" setting (
I think Luke really liked this for filming UA-cam videos. For the price maybe better devices for normal people, not UA-camrs. Still, Ernie enjoy your review. Got my primula filters a few weeks ago. Great.
Most of these lights are trash. Get yourself a good rechargeable flashlight and add a $5 white silicone diffuser. Multiple uses. If want handsfree for Basecamp, add a $20 9' tripod. This one is too short. You want one as high up as possible.
I own one and love it! Very versatile light source.
Thanks Ernie for another honest review.
That would be a great light to add to my search and rescue pack.
Should you have a subject that requires first aid during a night recovery, you can attend the their needs hands free.
Also with the strobe feature, it would allow air rescue to locate your position guickly.
Looking forward to your next review.
Cheers
Luke from the outdoor gear review has been using one of these lights for quite some time. It’s a really nice idea and he appears to like it very much too.
Perfect for a car kit or car camping. It’s a little pricey but a very versatile light. Thanks for the review. By the way I love my Primus Essential Trail stove. Thanks for letting me know about it. Small enough to nest in my cook kit but I can actually cook not just boil water.
I got the flextail one , it comes in orange , I love these lights
Thank you for your support! We're so happy to hear your positive feedback and that you're enjoying the light! 😊
Usually I’m so done with flashlight/light reviews, but this one I like. Very cool! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Thanks, Ernie! I like this form factor a lot. It would be interesting to compare this to the similarly priced Devos Lightranger 1200, which has established itself in the overlanding market. There are some obvious differences in use cases, but some intriguing overlaps as well.
I would use it for car camping
Thank you Ernie I would buy it but not at that price, I can get similar on Temu or one of the other Chinese sites at an incredibly low price and I have a lot of emergency lights and just camping lights a bit like you with your stoves. 🤣🤣🤣Jim from Scotland
Ernie, that is sweet. Yeah it even has the cool factor.
Hey doc I think a piece of gear you would love is the uberleben kessel pot i have both titanium and stainless.
Thanks
Great looking light
So i saw this on Amazon, its basically an exact replica of one from flextail, and at the same price too.
As far as I know, OuTask is the designer of this lantern, and Flextial collaborated with them to release orange version.
@marla-h2w oh, well that's interesting! Thanks for the info.
Very functional! And i gpt tons more information from comments section! Thanks, y'all!
the guy who has the channel The Outdoor Gear Review has this exact light. he uses it for much of his night time outdoor filming
If you are into hiking at night or evening in the winter check out the Glowalk from olight. I have the original ones they made and I love them. I always use hiking poles since I have had knee and hip replacement.
Thanks Dr. Ernie for the review. I like it a lot and think it would make a great fishing light while cat fish fishing at night. Don't like the sound of gas lanterns. Unfortunately at $195 it is too expensive for many of us.
Good review, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !
Earnie…. It’s time. You need a wireless mic for your videos.
You will jump up your voice quality 10X so yea. It’s time my dude. Love your videos. Not the reverb/echos in your audio.
Let’s go. It’s time. You an OG UA-camr. Get on it dog-gonnit.
Very neat light. It would be nice if it had a red light option for when we are star gazing at Big Bend.
Bluetooth/app control would be a nice added feature.
Just picked one up off Amazon on sale . . . Picked it up for $110
Or spend $20 on a Lumintop AA battery flashlight and put on the light diffuser then stick that on the end of whatever treking pole you have, hell even at the end of a stick you find on the trail
I feel this light are more convenient especially for those people like to do video and UA-camr.
I have one. It just won't die. It has even outlasted two Olight S-1 batons.
Seeing the vent holes it must get hot.
More flashlights or portable lights should come with a glow in the dark tag/ label something so you can easily find them in a power outage.
Too much $$
Theoutdoorgearreview channel has been using one quite a bit for night filming,,,😉
Yes that product has it all, and yes it might be somehow useful in an emergency to have a torch on a stick and a powerbank on legs. And yes it might be extra useful if you have so far nothing like a torch or so.
But - let's be real. This thing comes late and combines just what all of us already have at home.
All or at least most of us have already something like a selfie stick (and meanwhile all of them come with a stand to unfold if required) and most probably we have also at least one or two power banks, and of course everybody has any torch for not only when we go on trail. Most of us haven even multiple torches, I would simply guess.
And everybody has rubber bands. So if you want to have a light on a stick, just take a couple of simple rubber bands and you can clip your whatever torch you have to your selfie stick, done. And if that doesn't work, use some duct tape or band aids to make it happen.
So, yeah, if you want to hear my humble opinion: that thing is completely unnecessary. Just another piece of gear adding up to the pile of trash we are lead to purchase for these short couple of minutes of happiness over having got a new toy.
And finally it is simply for the bin since we don't need it and don't use it. And it will break by itself after some while since the inbuild batter/powerbank isn't made for eternity. And whiles you can get you a new powerbank you don't have to purchase an additional stick and torch and what not else whenever that thing is over.
Just my 2 cents, of course. And yes I'm a stingy cheap guy who doesn't want to throw his little money on the road. Especially not for a product which costs more than double (!) the amount of what is asked for a very similar unnecessary product which is sold next to that one here on Amazon, just by another brand ...
If this is a review how long have you actually been using this light? Is it durable? It seems flimsy… are you selling out?
Price is an immediate killer for me. While it might be kind of nice to have an "all-in-one" lighting device, there are a a lot of less "innovative", more specialized lights that can do most of what this light can do - and the things those other devices may not be able to do aren't things I'm really interested in doing anyway (I don't need a camera light for my UA-cam videos, since I don't make any!).
If they are advertising to use it as a camp light or tent light, one thing it seems to be missing is any kind of "moonlight" setting (
A group of Chinese designers, “Americans will buy these, just watch, and we can make $$”
I think luke from the outdoor gear review channel uses one of these or one very similar.
I think Luke really liked this for filming UA-cam videos. For the price maybe better devices for normal people, not UA-camrs. Still, Ernie enjoy your review. Got my primula filters a few weeks ago. Great.
This seems very similar to a Fire Maple Light and just another white label product
Great technology but a little bit too $$$$$.
Very similar units are on Amazon under ‘telescoping lantern’ at a range of prices.
Ernie, how about starting a New Channel ‘Not Cloned in China’?
this is it, both designed and manufactured in China.
Bought it for $103 on a lighting deal.
nice if you can afford it... I can't
I think they re trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist for too much money.
It would be foolish to pay that much for a flashlight.
Don’t know why, but I don’t like it 🫣🫣
Most of these lights are trash. Get yourself a good rechargeable flashlight and add a $5 white silicone diffuser. Multiple uses. If want handsfree for Basecamp, add a $20 9' tripod. This one is too short. You want one as high up as possible.