Cop Flashlight?

[Joel Kaye]

What flashlights are you guys using to cut those beams through the haze when the cops come rolling through the warehouse?

[Tico Llaurador]

Probably Xenons. I'm sure David Mullen could tell you for sure if you ask in his thread.

[Brent J. Craig]

You can get away with Scorpions (http://www.streamlight.com/product/product.aspx?pid=33) if the batteries are fresh. For the serious X-files stuff it's the 75W Maxabeam (http://peakbeam.thomasnet.com/item/handheld-searchlight-packages/basic-maxa-beam-package/mbpkg-b?&forward=1). Many rental houses have them. Fun to play with!

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

Probably some really powerful LED flashlights?

Would Xenon be better than LED?

[John Logan]

Scorpions? Maxabeam? Kids' stuff...

If you want a seriously bad-ass flashlight, at all price points, they don't come any better than Surefire.

www.surefire.com

I own several, and have used them in a couple shoots. LED and Xenon. They have nice, tight, visible beams.

[Brent J. Craig]

Scorpions? Maxabeam? Kids' stuff...

If you want a seriously bad-ass flashlight, at all price points, they don't come any better than Surefire.

www.surefire.com

The Maxabeam produces 7.5 Million candlepower. That's about 94 Million lumens.

The biggest Surefire I can find on that site does 500 lumens for 20 minutes.

94,000,000 > 500

[Richard Andrewski]

You can always use this:

http://saturnsurplus.com/lights/search.htm

or

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/1/4/2329

But you might blind someone. More practically an HID or LED flashlight would do it:

http://home.earthlink.net/~kenshiro2/hid2/50comp.html

Costco, Walmart and Sam's have occasionally had a 35w HID spotlight that has a great beam. Here's one guy talking about it on DVInfo.net. He even posted a video showing it in use. Color rendering wasn't bad at all considering how cheap it was.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/photon-management/88725-hid-spot.html

[John Logan]

The Maxabeam produces 7.5 Million candlepower. That's about 94 Million lumens.

The biggest Surefire I can find on that site does 500 lumens for 20 minutes.

94,000,000 > 500

Oops, I thought we were talking about cops, not search and rescue teams...

That thing brings new meaning to the saying "don't bring a bread box to a gun fight".

[spellDwhy]

I think the led flashlight (http://www.lightflashlights.com/) was very good. And I often used it. The quality was very good. Hoped that you like it very much.:thumbsup: