Sofirn IF22A Review, SFT40, 2100 Lumens, (Drone Mounted Footage)
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Thank you Sofirn for sending this for review
Chapters:
0:00 Overview
1:25 UI
2:58 Beamshots
8:23 Drone Footage
9:58 Runtime
10:15 Battery Review
Specs:
1, Emitter: LUMINUS SFT-40 6000-6500K
2, Working voltage: 2.8V-4.5V
3, 5V/ 3A fast charging
4, Battery Operation: single 21700 battery (21700 battery ranging from 70mm to 72.5mm)
5, Dimension: 127.1 mm (length)×42mm (head diameter)
6, Weight: 123 gram (without battery)
7, TIR Lens: Yes
8, DT MCPCB to get better heat exchange
9, Flashlight body: Aerospace grade grade aluminum alloy
10, Automatic Stepdown: when reaching 55℃ or at Turbo mode it steps down to High mode automatically to prevent overheating
Powerbank Function
Music Used:
Marion - Nostalgia
Music from #InAudio: inaudio.org/
Chill Electronic Trap
Music from #InAudio: inaudio.org/
Mesto
Oscuro - Lost In This Moment
Dimatis - Moonlit Lover - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Highly recommended.
Only negative points were the following
Cons
- Lumens measured much lower
- Thermal Regulation
Everything else was excellent, so much so that'll I'll be stocking it in my store.
You should try the IF22 instead. 4min in turbo instead of 2min. Longer range. Does have more visible circle though but considering your cons you should give it a try. You might prefer it
@@_Frimer_ thank you, only if I was sent it free from Sofirn otherwise I'm fairly happy with the Convoy C8+ SFT40 at 820m :)
@@PiercingTheDarkness yeah C8+! My C8+ throws much further than the if22a I got. The beam has a gigantic circle in it, and at night time shining it into the sky it’s kinda hard to describe, but the beam looks like an hour glass. Did I get a lemon or is that normal? I like the light, but it don’t shine for me like it does for you
DRONE FOOTAGE WAS FREAKING EPIC!!!
Agree!
This is just pure artistic craft. You just upgraded the flashlight review to the next level : )
Drone footage is what I need on every flashlight review.. thanks man
Great demo of the functionality but it’s the beam demonstrations that set this review apart from all others! Really shows what it can and can’t do on beam distance. Bought this after watching this. Keep up the good work *****
Thank you for the great beam shots in your video!! After watching I ordered one from Amazon. I subscribed to your channel as well. Been collecting torches for about 5 years now and videos like yours is how I make my decision to purchase them.
Thank you. Glad you found it useful :)
Today's flashlights are just amazing ✌️✌️🔦🔦🔦
Дрон это класс. Никто так не показывает ручные фонари . 👍
8:37 Wow! Love the clear drone footage 👍
What imaginative and well done review! First drone footage of a flashlight review I've watched and it's amazing. This light is on its way but I'll be using a VTC6 instead.
Great review! The drone footage was amazing!
This video was beautifully shot. Thanks!
I really like how the TIR beam looks, I've always hated the beam reflector-throwers produce... Also really like the UI, apart from the voltage-checking from Anduril this has all the features I regularly use! And nice that they begin to include powerbank functionality more often, this might seem like a good light to carry around in my backpack! Thanks for the great review!
Nice drone footage! Thats a first for any review ive seen!
Awesome review. It helped me pull the trigger on it. Perfect size for a flashlight of this capability. Can’t wait for it to arrive.
Superb drone shots and great beam shots , well done , sofirn wins for me , thanks buddy
Really creative and informative. Well done.
Thank you for the drone-mounted footage. This will help us choose the right lights to attach to Search and Rescue drones.
Loving the drone footage. 👌 😁
Great review too. 👍
Great review, thank you
Perfect professional video review 👍🏼🍀
Beautiful Shoot bruh ✨🔥
that pic of the drone in the sky with all the stars is breathtaking, wow
If you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy this even more: www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/wzzt63/drone_fog_lep_epic_amutorch_bt35/
ty for sharing bro!@@PiercingTheDarkness
Beautiful light this company is making some great flashlights sofirn the best engineering the best design flashlights ever on the market today they're way ahead of technology budget-friendly lights for everyone to afford I mean why bother with other companies when you're getting the best right here absolutely 👍😎❤️🥰
Sofirn is an excellent choice, but so is Convoy. As a dealer for both brands I've seen far less issues on Convoy.
Procurando vídeos de lanternas encontrei seu trabalho. Excelente, parabéns. 👏👏👏👏
Well I love the drone that is so cool and genius idea whatever made you think of doing that thank you for sharing this video your number one ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
I appreciate the comment, thank you
Flashlight on Drone,
VIDEO SUPER TOP 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Awesome.Thank💯👍
Love it!
Astrolux blows them ALL away. Wow. Incredible video.
Great video mate, beautiful part of the world. The drone footage was excellent and gave a very interesting perspective. I would like to see the tested lumens at turn on as well as ANSI if possible. Keep up the good work.
Thank you
Sofirn 21700
Turn on - 1442
30 sec - 1583
Samsung 30T
30 sec - 1679
30T - Tail cap removed with 8awg bridged
10 sec - 1913
30 sec - 1782
Output increases and then starts to drop at 10-15 secs in.
@@PiercingTheDarkness Thank you sir.
Eccellent review! Beamshots very good.
The IF22A gets hot very fast. On turbo it starts heating up fast.
Beam profile excellent
2 minutes is pretty decent though for the size, I'm very impressed. It's so much better than many models released lately that stepdown at 30-60 seconds
@@PiercingTheDarkness There a way you prefer to use this without burning your hands? Time limit for Turbo before it goes scorching?
@@Tripleh3lix20 turbo heats up fast on any high performance flashlight, but thermal regulation usually reduces the output to stop it from burning your hands, just like the IF22A here.
Fantastic beam shots and I love how you included a drone! What camera are you using?
Thank you. See my Sofirn C8L vid where I did the same. The Astrolux EC06 video with the drone beamshots are quite something as well. The drone is the only reason larger brands are starting to give me a chance without higher subs.
I use the Sony A6500 with a Sigma 16mm F1.4 lens. I just recently purchased a DJI RSC2 Gimbal for walking around. Last week I purchased a Night Vision Scope for $1800 so I can start reviewing IR flashlights, next is a waterproof housing to review dive models. This hobby sure is starting to cost a lot! haha.
Awesome
Wicked little throwers. I bought 3
How you enjoying them? How's the heat and is there a way to use it without it scorching your hand? Having second thoughts about ordering after reading about the heat issue.
Güzel bir video olmuş 👍
Subbed :) I’m the Reddit guy
Большое спасибо за великолепный качественный обзор и сравнение!
Nice drone footage! Your runtime looks much different than the measurements from others because of the missing cooling. The flashlight got and stayed so hot, even at the minimal regulation level, that it didn't start to ramp up except at the end when the power consumption was low enough due to the lower voltage.
Interesting comment, thank you. I was wondering why that happened and that makes sense.
@@PiercingTheDarkness Wonder, what the driver type, but perhaps if you use battery type that starts kickin' the current as voltage decrease, maybe the graph will display different curve..
i think its the tesla that have that kind of discharging character.. (and vtc6 if i remember correctly ASF Matt Smith once stated) Cheers☕
Forgot to add that the flashlight steps down at 55°C and hovers around 50°C. Parasitic drain peaks at 134μA.
The tail spring isn't good enough and reduces the lumens by roughly 200
Hi, If I solder/bypass spring with wire, is that gonna help?
@@bobanmunja it would, however, I just popped out the spring and placed a second underneath and then soldered the top, works well
Wow
Don't worry if you can't remember but how long was that exposure shot of the drone. looks awesome.
20 seconds. thank you. Took a few attempts since it would move too much
TIR version gets unique head ^^ the UI is not anduril ?
No, just Sofirn's simple UI. It would have been nice to have Anduril V2
Is the bubble in the plastic around the outside edge of the optic normal or is it a flaw?
Normal. It's on all models I've used with a TIR lens
Is there a short tube Segment available like on the sofirn sp40 / sc31 pro?
Not that I know of
I do wish that those who dislike a video should share their reason. I need to know what you guys like
Try the other way around, the drone filming you with the beam on in pitch-black darkness
@@christophelamotte1253 The drone's camera isn't designed for that purpose and struggles to show the true brightness when the beam is from a further distance. Already tried for the Cyansky H5 review and the beam was very, very dim
@@christophelamotte1253 If I pointed the drone's camera onto a tree at 150m it couldn't even see any light from the flashlight on Turbo
I see, have you tried manual photo with longer exposure time and not video?
Due to the videos high capture rate, it cant let enough light in.
Could you recommend a good thrower for me? I usually go out fishing at night and I want a minimal spill so that fishes near our local boat cant be really disturbed. If they get a good amount of light, their tendency is to jump (needlefish) which would be dangerous for us riding on our local boat called bangka here in the Philippines.
However I need a good throw to see objects far ahead when the boat is travelling, to evade drift woods etc.
Im currently using Convoy M26C and planning on buying L21B.
M26C still has quite some spill.
Piercing the Darkness, Where can you buy the Sofrin IF22A? Thanks Stan
Sofirnlight.com
Do you have any information about its driver? I have been wondering if we can change the emitter to see the change in beam profile.
Definitely a FET driver. You'd need to reflow the LED onto the existing mcpcb since it has slots for the TIR optic legs
@@PiercingTheDarkness not a FET+ is it? I will not touch the copper board since my hand is shaky too much. I ruined a C8 while trying to bypass it.
@@baotranhuy3476 I'm not sure since I haven't removed the driver. I'm guessing it'll be Fet + 1.
Nice.,.. However, I would like you to do a review of the newish Acebeam L19 2.0 version 2 in white LED because it has a wider beam and more power…. I have had the Acebeam L19 2.0 version 2 in my basket for a while and waiting for a decent review and beam shots….👍👍👍
I would have, it's just Acebeam don't offer free units over a certain price point unless one has high subs
Is it possible to run this lamp directly with a powerbank?
Without a battery it doesn't even work on low without flickering. With a battery inserted it'll run normally on all modes
👍🏼Good video mate!, been eyeing that IF sisters for a while.. seems i prefer the reflector though.. but the TIR also unique. love the ui, similar with SP35 sst40. And that c8+ convoy; that's sure a good value all round workhorse.
About that 'drone' content; good to have distance shown from some heights👍🏼 but please dont get carried away with the 'pov' drone mounted footage mate, it will soon become pointless( at least for me, with such narrow beam pattern,and elevation) but... if in the next drone footage you include some shots, from not too high elevation, filming you throwing beam to an object, so we can see, analyze, or even admiring the beam pattern/shape in use from a different angle; that would be awesome. *just my two cents. Oh and Jacob, that stills with different luminosity level, and battery graph are very useful👌🏽
Cheers mate🍻
I agree, too much drone footage with the same beam profile would get repetitive, I'll only include it for select models.
"good to have distance shown from some heights"
This is where I can't fly any higher due to New Zealand law regarding night flying, my MF01S video was recorded before I knew any better.
I don't quite understand the last part. Are you suggesting I use the drone to film myself using the flashlight on the ground? That would be different, but I'd not exactly want to fly it without a light attached. The camera on the drone isn't the greatest for capturing the full beam profile in a video, maybe as only a photo, but that could provide its own problems.
I will see what it looks like from the air of me walking around shining it onto trees etc, never thought of that.
@@PiercingTheDarknessYes, filming you and the torch, [from some heights..] don't get me wrong mate.. the elevation i'm suggesting is lower than the one you have🙂, consider 6-8 meters elevation, with the drone stationary (easier to control perhaps) and at 20-30 meters ground distance max . since it has wide angle coverage, with not too far distance,and the reflection of the beam and spill to the ground /object still tolerable with the cam light sensor; that'll be sufficient 😀
@@relayerrelayer8226 the beam would be overexposed then, suppose I could alter the settings.
A bit too scary flying low since I could hit trees, plus the beam would be much narrower and worse off than what's shown.
Thanks for the suggestions though
@@relayerrelayer8226 ah, stationary. Missed that part.
We'll see, since the flashlight isn't on a gimbal it'll move around terribly if it's stationary. Check out my C8+ test flight to see what I mean
@@PiercingTheDarkness No flashlight on the drone mate 🙂. The flashlight is with you, that why im suggesting not too high elevation and not too far ground distance to you as the axis. and for different angle in frame(side,frontal,rear); keep the drone stationary, and ..you do the walkaround🤗
Hey, I swear I've seen some of these drone shots on r/flashlight!
Yes, I posted a few on there
Astrolux ea01 and ea01s are the same?
nope, the EA01 has a single LED with a TIR optic, the EA01S has 4x LEDs with a reflector. If you're talking about the Mateminco MT01 being the Astrolux EA01, then yes, they're the same. Astrolux is a rebrand for banggood, Mateminco is the manufacturer.
@@PiercingTheDarkness thanks bro.
9:00 a view only formally enjoyed by the saucer people.
can i know what drone u using? the brand or type?
DJI Phantom 4 Pro
@@PiercingTheDarkness thanks
Good tes water
Looks like you have some real low light pollution, I hope you do some star gazing!
Beautiful country, land of ancient hobbits and orcs lol. similar to my home country of wales hope I get to visit one day. going to pick up that light.
That piece was FAT as hell on that drone. 😂😂😂 I just ordered the IF22A and can't wait to mount it on my Autel drone. I'll find a way to mount it somehow. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
You should also mount an LEP like I did here: www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/s/AZxEPGeTSh
fook me good review 100%
Thanks buddy
Liked for 9:54 awesome.
Was that on turbo or did it stepped down ?
@@wy2679 that beamshot was a 20 sec exposure on low brightness
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I live a long way from any city
Wow ❤️