Summary

Apart from the similarity in name, the Vastlite Minima Bow LED has little in common with the earlier Minima Bow featuring a laser light source. In fact, it is a completely new model with conventional LED technology.

The cool-white light shows a pronounced corona around the spot with a yellow-green tint. Operation via the mechanical tail switch is mostly intuitive – if it weren’t for the rather unnecessary blinking modes, which can be easily activated unintentionally.

With a different LED, the Vastlite Minima Bow LED could have been an attractive EDC flashlight: slightly warmer, without the ugly corona, with better color rendering and perhaps a small TIR optic instead of the reflector.

The full review is available here:

English review at BudgetLightForum
German review on my website

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Thanks for the review but it’s kind of hard to understand why this light exists. What are some smaller 16340 lights you like? The format seems to have declined. Because reasons, I’m particularly interested in lights with under 55mm OAL.