You Just Know Your A Flashaholic When......

[Monocrom]

When you're watching a "film" specifically made for Adults, and there's a scene where one of the "actors" is searching a darkened building with a flashlight....

Yeah, you start trying to I.D. the flashlight. Even though you know there's no way you'd be able to post your discovery on that one thread about flashlights in movies or TV shows.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

When you're watching a "film" specifically made for Adults, and there's a scene where one of the "actors" is searching a darkened building with a flashlight....

Yeah, you start trying to I.D. the flashlight. Even though you know there's no way you'd be able to post your discovery on that one thread about flashlights in movies or TV shows.

.... and it drives you crazy because every actor you've ever seen searching a darkened building is always using a flashlight with the narrowest beam you've ever seen.

HEY POLICEMAN! DON'T YOU THINK A FLASHLIGHT WITH SOME FLOOD WOULD BE USEFUL!!??? :hairpull: :hairpull: :hairpull:

~ Chance Who Hates That!

 

[Monocrom]

When you concentrate on the beam pattern in a movie scene, rather than the movie.

Congrats C.G.!

 

[tech25]

Friends ask to borrow a light on a trip and you think... thats too expensive... as is that... that one is not for a non flashaholic... those two I want to use... ok got one for you!

 

[Cerealand]

When you concentrate on the beam pattern in a movie scene, rather than the movie.

Congrats C.G.!

I did that yesterday with Ant man. His beam was not floodly enough.

 

[Monocrom]

Friends ask to borrow a light on a trip and you think... thats too expensive... as is that... that one is not for a non flashaholic... those two I want to use... ok got one for you!

Experienced that very thing myself. In a similar vein......

When you specifically buy a cheap light and carry it to use as the one that gets loaned out to others.

 

[Monocrom]

I did that yesterday with Ant man. His beam was not floodly enough.

Hollywood used to do a better job getting the details right.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Hollywood used to do a better job getting the details right.

I think it has more to do with creating suspense and providing dark areas for bad guys to appear from than equipping actors with proper lighting tools.

~ CG

 

[Monocrom]

I think it has more to do with creating suspense and providing dark areas for bad guys to appear from than equipping actors with proper lighting tools.

~ CG

That's an excellent point. (Still annoying though when it's done in a scene.)

 

[blah9]

Yeah, I always joke that there wouldn't be much of a movie if the actors had flashlights I typically carry, haha. There would be a lot less suspense that way and they'd be a lot safer too.

You know you're a flashaholic when you have perfectly adequate outdoor lighting at your house but you only turn it on for others and instead rely on your EDC when you go outside.

 

[bykfixer]

When you read this thread to see how many other "normal" people like us there are...

 

[peter yetman]

It's the one that stay silent that you need to worry about. Sleepers.
P

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

.... you refer to your flashlights as My Precious.

I don't do that, but if you do, you should realize that you're a flashaholic.

~ Chance

 

[Cerealand]

You have to decide which light to use for basic tasks.... brightness, hcri, titanium, aluminum, Natural Ha or Black

 

[tex.proud]

When you haven't been here for a while because you have been spending your $$$ on another hobby/passion/habit, but when you take a trip to see your family in Dallas and realize that you did a rather odd thing...you took only 1 flashlight, and that weirds you out enough that you come to CPF to confess!

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

When you haven't been here for a while because you have been spending your $$$ on another hobby/passion/habit, but when you take a trip to see your family in Dallas and realize that you did a rather odd thing...you took only 1 flashlight, and that weirds you out enough that you come to CPF to confess!

Start two new threads and all will be forgiven. Oh yeah, and charge yer batteries.

~ Chance

 

[AMD64Blondie]

When you buy a updated version of a light you already own "just because".

(Guilty:I ordered a new 2018 Black Diamond Storm 350 lumen-and I already own the older 100 lumen version).

Amazon is a evil enabler...they were selling it on sale for $36.95 shipped-Thank you Amazon Prime.

 

[blah9]

When you buy the exact same version of a discontinued light just so you have a backup if your favorite light ever dies. I just found a Fenix TK09 2015 edition online and bought it for that reason. It has my personal all-time favorite UI, exactly the order I like the modes to be, and I love the number of modes. I don't even mind that it doesn't have a moonlight mode. No strobe getting in my way, and its highest mode is bright enough for most things and doesn't step down until the battery dies.

The funny thing is that I didn't even know I'd love it so much. I won it in a contest/raffle once and it very quickly grew on me. Too bad I don't like the new version or any of the other new TK lights from Fenix as much since they don't have the same features. It would be nice to get one just a little brighter with more runtime and an updated emitter. Ah well. I'm pretty darn happy with it the way it is.

 

[ZAWatchman]

It is bad when you didn't actually even realise your addiction - you bought 5 or more expensive flash lights over time, and someone one day innocently asks you to explain your behaviour - much to your embarrassment!

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

..... you spend over an hour reading each and every PM before deleting it, ....... just to make sure you don't need it anymore.

~ Chance