lampeDépêche
Flashlight Enthusiast
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Foursevens was one of the first main-stream manufacturers to even provide this option. To this day, many manufacturers – Fenix, Jetbeam, Nitecore – provide few, if any, high-CRI or warm-tint options.
David has explained repeatedly that this is an economic necessity — they invariably loose money on these runs. Some members clamor very loudly for the warm / high-CRI emitters, but few buy them.
Foursevens may not offer numerous emitters on every light, but this is far from a valid criticism.
I'm not trying to take cheap shots against David or his company. I know he has mentioned the low sales in the past, and I sympathize with anyone running a company and making payroll.
I don't think the problem is that members here request things and then don't buy them. I think the bigger problem is that even if every member of CPF bought something, it still would not add up to one day's sales for Surefire, or one minute's sales for Ray-0-Vac or Eveready or the big-box light merchants. Tint snobs are not a big market.
At the same time, some manufacturers--I mentioned ZL--are managing to break even while offering tint options with every model.
You mention some manufacturers that offer few if any tint options. So there we are: some companies do better, some do worse, and 4/7s is somewhere towards the worse side.
I hope they'll offer a NW option with this new light!