Recent mentions of the Orcatorch canister light made me recall the Mares light, which seems to be more or less in the same class:
DCT Canister Light
Anyone have opinions?
DCT Canister Light
Anyone have opinions?
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Recent mentions of the Orcatorch canister light made me recall the Mares light, which seems to be more or less in the same class:
DCT Canister Light
Anyone have opinions?
Recent mentions of the Orcatorch canister light made me recall the Mares light, which seems to be more or less in the same class:
DCT Canister Light
Anyone have opinions?
If you were buying an entry level canister light for cheap, which brand and model do you think has the best value and performance?I also use the D620 from OrcaTorch and back it up with the OrcaTorch D520. So far I haven't really been able to make up my mind between the Mares DCT series and the OrcaTorch.
If you were buying an entry level canister light for cheap, which brand and model do you think has the best value and performance?
Like you, I'm not doing those kinds of dives, but the question in my mind behind my original post is whether it would be a good value-performance decision to acquire one of these lights while I'm still working my way up to that kind of diving--an "entry level" canister light as you put it. ("Training wheels"? Ha ha.) Or, rather than tossing a few hundred dollars into one of these entry level canister lights, am I better served for the time being sticking with exactly what I have been using: an HID canister light that I bought in used but decent condition for something like US$ 500. Save my money up for a proper, tried-and-true brand. These discussions lead me to believe these inexpensive canister lights offer a false savings. In other words, too good to be true.